Baby Blue

I've always wanted to play around with Cross Processing, and found a web site that

showed how to do it digitally. You have to play around quite abit and the results seem to

vary a lot. Anyway, would be curious to hear your thoughts on my 1st effort. Thanks

 

Todd

Those are some very wide eyes. Nice tones.

Brilliant! Wonderful! The colors... I really cant critique... just appreciate.

Hi Jaun, thank you for taking the time to rate my photograph. I see you gave it a 5 for Aesthetics and a 4 for originality. I'm totally fine with that, honest I am, but I can't quite figure out how this (see attached photo. Note: no offense to the photographer of this photo, I attached it so as to keep your name anonymous) photograph merits a 6/6 from you. If you wouldn't mind, can you explain what your thoughts are regarding the two different ratings? Once again, I have no problem with your ratings per se, but I just can't figure out how the attached photograph is that much better. Thank you

 

Todd

Gorgeous shot and great work. Reminds me of Annie Leibovitz's photo of her daughter Sarah Cameron. Check it out in her new book. Again ... nice job.

Very appealing.

Just like my new grand nephew!

6/6

Very Cool.. Well composed and nicely processed

Oh, dear Todd :) what a wonderful baby and what Eyes/Look :) excellent :)

 

Biliana

So sweet... and a good photo. Best regards.

Oh Todd - this is gorgeous!!! I totally agree with your comment to Jaun. It is the difference between a fine steak and hamburger. Maybe he is in to snapshots versus art but to each his own. I love the tones and his eyes are stunning. Would you mind sharing the website that you referred to? I would love to try this with my son, who also has the icy blue eyes.

Thank you very much. Actually I think Jaun must know that photographer personally or something because apparently he rates all of thier work very highly without much regard to quality, or what I percieve to be quality anyway. Enough about that. :)

 

The site I was referring to is : http://www.phoeniximaging.co.uk/Tutorials/XProcess/XProcess.html

 

From what I have gathered so far (basically in an hour or so, lol) is that it seems to work better with the right photograph. I don't think it works well with just any. Also, you have to tweak around a lot to get more of what you want, as the little tutorial is just a starting point I think. So, experiment away and have some fun. Thanks again

 

Todd

Well its very nice Todd, whatever you did to it. Your portraits are always demanding a response, they have such a warm tone. Possibly this is your forte.

 

Great work. Great portfolio.

 

Best regards Michael.

i'm wandering what is he looking at! The photographer.... assistant?

Beautiful!

 

.oesse.

Magnificent shot Todd. Those shades of blue and High-key lighting, expression...just strong photography.

I found myself watching his(?) eyes for reflections where he looks at. So I am in the same boat with Marco. Really great expression captured. Those hypnotic eyes and hairstyle enyone could be proud of ;D

 

Techincal side, I like this cross process- look and placing of subject (someone here in PN was in opinion, that one can not get good composition with SF) Eye sharpness with colour of them really make them hypnotic... This is excellent photo for me. No ratings, since I do not them anymore. a s l a

Awesome tones and expression, excellent eyes!

Todd- What a thought provoking image. Wonderfully enjoyable to look at :) I visited the site you included above, interesting. Just read an old photography book about cross processing & have been trying out experiments in PS. Knowing the why & how of film development seems to help me with the rendering process in digital :)

 

I'd like to ask you a few questions. As I look at this one, I find myself wondering, "What lens you used?" It certainly accentuates those beautiful eyes :) Did you play with the DOF & then bring back the extreme detail of the eyes, nose, ear tips & that wonderful lower lip? Well done.

 

My only critique would be the orangeish area on the neck crease on the right of the photo. I like the shadow created by his little chin, my personal preference might be to desaturate this area just a little. But the eyes have it! Kind of a "Who? Me?" look :) Wonderful capture! Interesting processing :)

Thank you for your kind remarks. Cross processing is totally greek to me, I just followed this tutorial and then played around a bit from there. It's something I've always wanted to try and when I stumbled on the link I gave it a try.

 

I think I used a 24mm to 70mm Canon lens, so I was pretty close to him. I don't remember the details, but it was probably ISO 200, f10 or so at 250th of a second. This little guy had a very nice wide eyed look once in a while, this being one of those "once in a while's". As far as playing with the DOF, I don't remember that either. Most times I will selectively sharpen the eyes and lips only and leave the rest of the photo unsharpened. Sometimes I will give a slight blur to the background and back of the head, but not much, just a hint.

 

That orangish cast you see was actually AFTER I desaturated it, it was more obvious before than it is now, although it didn't/doesn't look orange to me, but I may be color blind. LOL I think it was kind of greenish in the original X-Process testing.

 

Thanks again.

 

Todd

Thanks Todd for the info. You gotta love babies expressions :) I took a flash photo of one of our 4 current grandsons (5th due in April). The flash caught him off guard & scared the heck out of him. His expression shows it. We all laughed at the end result. He is the number 3 grandson. He has become so use to being photographed that whenever he sees anyone with a camera, he stops & poses :) Such a big ham :) Our daughter says it's terrible when they are at friends, he thinks the camera is all about him :) He's a real character!

But with eyes like this, who could resist your little character :) I did play a little in PS & the area I spoke of desaturated easily. You are also right, it's more of a green :) I must have had my "rose-colored" glasses on :) I only mention it because it happens to me a lot. Hi-key images seem more prone to this phenomenon. Don't ask me why, I have no answer, I just know I have become really sensitive to it.

Here's my photo I speak of :)His eyes are on the verge of being crossed. One millisecond later & I think they would have been :)

Tyson

Oh & one other thing someone else taught me. If you are shooting in digital (not sure, you didn't list the camera) If you want to know "details" open the original file in PS go to "file", "file info" "camera data 1" gives you everything, camera, ISO, focal length, lens, aperture, etc. A lot better than my little flip pad I use to work with when shooting film :) You probably already know this, but I did not. Helps me a lot for future set up of shots. Digital cameras are amazing for recording all that data for you. Now if they could only talk to the subjects & get them to co-operate :)

love the expression and the cross processed look...I am playing with that a little myself.