CC Please on TKD portrait

I'm interested in comments regarding the lighting & composition; I like his expression, but since I'm the photog I'm biased ... Thanks



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Bob
rjross.smugmug.com

Lighting and composition seem fine to me. There's a red/magenta cast that needs correcting.



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~ Peano
http://www.radiantpics.com

Thanks for the comment and adjustment, Peano.

I don't find the magenta as evident on the Aperture full screen version as what appears on this site, even though you'd think the same digital code would be displayed identically whether it radiated from an Aperture file or a Smugmug file referenced by dpreview.com.
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Bob
rjross.smugmug.com

Photos4Fun said:

Thanks for the comment and adjustment, Peano.

I don't find the magenta as evident on the Aperture full screen
version as what appears on this site, even though you'd think the
same digital code would be displayed identically whether it radiated
from an Aperture file or a Smugmug file referenced by dpreview.com.

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I don't have Aperture, but I believe it's color-managed, whereas most browsers aren't. So you could get quite different color renderings from any given image.
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~ Peano
http://www.radiantpics.com

The lighting on his face is pretty flat, and it gets a little lost on the background. Nice update Peano.
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http://www.pbase.com/jfinite

Looks good and simple to me... He looks like one of my students LOL.

I would have preferred to see a sold color background, of one color, no difference from where he is standing, blending to the background.

And a portrait yes, full body is fine, but don't forget your 1/4, 1/2 shots, and perhaps a semi action shot, maybe a kick, or punch. Maybe a prop with some cinderblock, and a board.
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Rich
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Photos4Fun said:

...I don't find the magenta as evident on the Aperture full screen
version as what appears on this site, even though you'd think the
same digital code would be displayed identically whether it radiated
from an Aperture file or a Smugmug file referenced by dpreview.com.

Click to expand...

The absolute judge is Photoshop's eyedropper tool. Sample the near white areas and you will find that there is a bit of a color cast.

If your monitor is not calibrated, then there is no point in using Aperture's color management feature. Whatever ICC profile you are using may not match your monitor, in which case using color management could possibly make things worse.

My monitor is calibrated, but my eyes are terrible, so I rely heavily upon making color measurements. If I may make a book recommendation, "Skin" by Lee Varis does an excellent job of teaching how to make measurements for getting good skin color. He also suggests some ways to correct for color problems.

http://www.amazon.com/Skin-Complete-Digitally-Photographing-Retouching/dp/047004733X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224811020&sr=8-1

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