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ps: Is "critique me" right? oh well.... :$ Mar 23 10 09:25 am Link you're joking , right?? Mar 23 10 09:49 am Link SirbuT wrote: Nah, there's always room for improvement Mar 23 10 09:57 am Link Well it's hard to critique someone who does exceptional work, but I'd like to give you my general opinion as far as looking at you as if I was looking to hire a retoucher. Mainly I get the impression that you primarily do beauty retouch, with an emphasis on great skin work. That's awesome, but I might need you to do more than that on a project and I don't have an indication from your portfolio that you have those skillsets. So it's more about what I don't see: Can you do a kick ass black-n-white conversion? Motion, streak, ghost effects? cross-processes? age techniques? background replacement? Or if it's your career goal to be highly specialized in skin retouch and you would not be interested in the thousand other things someone would go to a retoucher for, maybe indicate that clearly somehow.  Mar 23 10 10:18 am Link Uh....you're TOO good? Mar 23 10 04:01 pm Link post something a little new-ish maybe? Mar 23 10 06:24 pm Link I think ur work is amazing Natalia Taffarel wrote: Our eyes are def. untrained, yes since we are catching a lot! Mar 27 10 07:09 am Link Magicalla Worx wrote: hm... I don't see it. But remember, sharp in screen is not the same as sharp for print. Mar 27 10 07:37 am Link Natalia_Taffarel wrote: Which is why I said I might be wrong sugar! That was a kickass retouch! The skin was a bit sharp for my taste, specially around the edges, and the contouring made her look flawless and seemingly unbelievable that she was that before Mar 27 10 09:19 am Link Natalia_Taffarel wrote: I don't like the hairline at the forehead... the way you removed the hair looks like somethings missing... I would have left some of the hair in and taken the others out even more. Mar 27 10 03:20 pm Link There are some stray hairs here, around the eyebrows.  No, seriously. I don't mean the eyebrows themselves. Look on the left of the picture. One kind of appears out of nowhere Mar 27 10 06:49 pm Link The only things I would work on more on the Hanna retouch are: - That section of hair that you mirrored - vary the length of the little hairs in the hairline - the white hair/highlight in nostril - remove her tooth that is poking down a little under her top lip - d&b her neck and chest a bit more? I feel the chicken skin stands out more because of how well you've worked her face. Apart from that I think you've done a fab job and your lashes are lovely. Mar 28 10 07:32 am Link The eyes. Here's what's wrong: You must realize that eyes are like ping-pong ball. Not flat. So what you want to do is use gray gradiants to emphasize the roundness with the highlight being the white point.. A small amount also transfers to the socket, giving depth. I'm still trying to perfect this. Now if you could teach me texture... LOL Mar 28 10 07:39 am Link Davepit wrote: Just saw those... oh my... I really missed them completely. E_Jacob wrote: I agree E_Jacob wrote: don't agree. I think it looks "cute" E_Jacob wrote: don't agree. I think makes her real. Rebel Photo wrote: I think it's a monitor issue. Mar 28 10 11:28 am Link Natalia_Taffarel wrote: If they were flat, they weren't done by you sugar. Mar 28 10 09:22 pm Link Natalia_Taffarel wrote: Very much impresses your level of skill. Mar 29 10 10:35 am Link Im not gonna kiss your bum like everyone else in this thread.  The red cast to the bottom teeth from the sucker, even though it might be realistic, looks kinda funky to me. That is something I would have done differently. Over all excellent work though. Mar 29 10 04:18 pm Link shawnmakesfoto wrote: And then u did... Mar 29 10 04:20 pm Link  Pinky fingernail shape is non realistic at tip. If her nail were really shaped like that, it would be cut straight across, compared to the arching shape of the other nails. Its a difficult retouch being that the original nail was digging into the skin, and you ended up with a strangely shaped extension that looks like its hovering on the skin instead of making an indentation like the original nail did. I would either reshape the nail, or shadow the skin accordingly to create a realistic dimple where the nail makes contact with the skin. Again, excellent work. These are just little tiny nitpicks that nobody will ever notice in real life. Mar 29 10 04:30 pm Link shawnmakesfoto wrote: Another criticism. her left ear tip (camera right) is pulled in to the point where the crease makes it look paper thin and overly flat. Mar 29 10 04:36 pm Link I think your work is fabulous and I believe you are one of the best retouchers here in MM. So I really can't see anything wrong with your port since I love it all and I wish one day I will be as good as you. A girl can wish right Mar 29 10 04:54 pm Link ** I've written this over the course of a day or so due to circumstances here. If the issues below have already been raised, I apologize in advance ** You know you're the best around, but if you wanted to improve 'Hanna', I'll offer these: - Flyaways upper camera left. I gather they were retained for 'realism', but they're sharp, contrasty, and lead out of the scene. Keep the viewer in it - kill the main ones, leave the 'bounding' hairs. - Two horizontal strays just above mid forehead - their parallel nature make them look like artifacts at first glance. Studying them reveals that they're really there, but then the prospective client is thinking in terms of what you didn't do wrong instead of how amazingly you did right. Given how good you are with hair, removing one and eliminating that perception seems worthwhile. Don't distract the good clients. - Left eyebrow at its peak gets a bit wide and has more strays than I'd expect. Also two strays just left of the outer edge of the brow. - Right eye - what's with the added lash across the eye itself? - She obviously has an inset temple, but some not seeing the 'before' image may think that she either smudged her shadow w/o it being corrected either by the MUA or you, or that she's the victim of some pretty serious abuse. - Left nostril - you'll know it when you see it. - A few strays over the left collar bone which might be removed. All in all brilliant work which I wish I had the eye for -- those are just the small things I'm capable of .Mar 30 10 12:59 pm Link  On this one to the left the 3 glowing hairs while they keep realizm... they are also distracting... they stand out more when I told IE8 to resize to 200%. I love the picture overall... but would also make it show up larger on MM on this one:  only when you enlarge screen do you see that the model's left pupil is shaped funny... it's not round... right one also seems to have a point on bottom of it being as good as you are we get to be real picky LOL Apr 02 10 03:51 pm Link I'm curious why you are added this lash  it's very distracting IMO Apr 06 10 12:11 pm Link how can anyone critique you? xO you are on your own little planet of greatness compared to everyone else haha just keep up your god like powers in ps ^^ Apr 06 10 01:07 pm Link Natalia_Taffarel wrote: E_Jacob wrote: don't agree. I think it looks "cute" E_Jacob wrote: don't agree. I think makes her real. Cool! I'm still pretty green, so I have a tendency to take retouches a little too far at times. Apr 07 10 02:12 am Link I like it!! muahh! I have 3 things I personally don't like but its just my opinion 1) the hair masking on the upper right. It keeps getting my attention. :-P 2) eyelash as everyone has said 3) I don't like the lips re-shape. I think it makes her face look snipey or over long or something... But then yer a genius and we're all plebs so..... Apr 07 10 05:54 am Link |
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