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mielag

Hi all,

need some feedback on those two photos:





my wife gave me very little points for them saying that those eyes looks very creepy - well fake... so my question is - did i really went overboard with dodging? i think they are ok but maybe i`m just indulging myself after learning new thing...

thanks for comments!

AnimalRights

Explain Dodging? I do lots of PP but sometimes I need the basics explained.

mielag

Dodge Tool in Photoshop this lightens an area of an image that you want to be a little bit brighter...

mielag

as opposite to burning...

charybdis

I'm not a fan of heavily retouching eyes, things get very uncanny valley very quickly.

AnimalRights wrote: »

Explain Dodging? I do lots of PP but sometimes I need the basics explained.

It comes from a technique used in darkroom printing where the person printing would put something between the enlarger light and a specific area of the print to allow relatively less light to hit it and thus lighten the area in the developed print. Similarly, "burning" is allowing more light to hit a specific area of the print so that it will appear darker in the developed print.

Photoshop et al named tools that do similar things after these techniques.

mielag

thanks charybdis

CabanSail

I think that the problem here that the right eye is actually in shadow, but appears to be illuminated similar to the left eye. This is due to your dodging it looks unnatural as there is no source for the light in that eye.

The temperature is a bit warm for my taste, but I am looking at this on an uncalibrated monitor.

smelltheglove

They are a little bright, I have gone overboards myself once or twice, I think it depends on the situation. To me the colopur is a little warm here which I think my be making the work on the eyes stand out a little more. Also when doing your dodging I would recommend making a duplicated layer, do your dodging then reducing the opacity of that layer in 10% steps until you reach a comfortable level.

mielag

thanks a lot guys! your points are taken... the separate layer does the job!