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Re: Frequency Separation
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2017, 20:24:57 »
Winters are long here; and at the bottle neck of the Geneva Lake, mist is clogging up in the valley for about 3 months... so plenty of time for some darkroom - euh lightroom - experiments...
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Re: Frequency Separation
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2017, 20:27:20 »
Met some photographer guy the other day - he had an accident and was stuck at home for months - so he learned Photoshop. Always an upside to anything :)
"You don’t take a photograph – you make it” – Ansel Adams. Thats why I use photoshop.
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Re: Frequency Separation
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2017, 10:06:30 »
With regard to the LF part; the blur has been quite moderate 7 to 8 px for a 24 Mpx image; there were no "skin replacements" but some local additional Gaussian blurs added at around 24 px; some small local adjustments were made at the HF part.

For this pic. 7/9 px are just he upper limit.
If I understand correctly. You did a second FS on some areas at 24px?
or you used the same one and increased some areas to 24px?
24px is too high for this image

Eyes and theets were also exaggerated but under Lr; I do a first edit under Lr and, for the 5 or 10% of the cases, an additional processing with Ps.

Her eyes and teeth are pretty sharp in the original file. I would have just emphasized her make up. corrected her eye brows and slightly whitened her teeth.


Again, I re-emphasize this was a technical exercise, in a certain way, to find the boundaries of what is acceptable. And as I'm doing FS about two times a year, I'm not a specialist, and advice, as yours, is more than welcome.

Quite clear that it is an exercise. It is a very important exercise as technique put aside. This particular image does not have any skin issues to be addressed with FS but she has facial hair issues needing a different approach.
All is good.

Quote from: MFloyd link=topic=5443.msg86907#msg86907 date=1487236284
In any case, if you or someone wants to have a trial, here is the link to the raw file [url
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkmun1bf1jk1m3b/_6101357%20copie.NEF?dl=0[/url]

And to end on a more humorous note (from the same series, and without FS):  ;)

I did download your image  and really like the second one. As you might know. Portraits are very much last century in the fashion world and now we have a new pompous name for it: Active Portraits. Don't laugh as I personally think it is hillarious but very true. We do not pose people anymore in terms of facial expression and only correct extreme body postures. It is more snapshot photography designer standard if this means anything. Conclusion it is Marvel comics translated on live subjects.
It sounds easy but in fact is much more difficult to nail the shot.
Which means you score higher on your second pic.

The eyes double lid- eye brows and teeth were retouched. Skin was corrected and replaced. B/G nilled as the bloke in the backgrund is intrusive.
Tonality of the pic whether brighter or darker or contrast can be changed at will based on the photographer style.
No FS was used.

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Re: Frequency Separation
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2017, 10:43:00 »
Hello Ethan.  Thank you for having dedicated a part of your Saturday morning on editing my picture.  Excellent result ! Yes, the "hair" problem is to a large extent attributable to her Italian roots I believe 😊.  And I didn't put a lot of effort into correcting it; eyebrows are not too difficult; but I was some discouraged for the upper-lip part 😏

The 24px Gaussian blurs where directly put on the LF mask.  I should rater have used the stamp tool, but I didn't.
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