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Mmkay, so I've redone the fancy lights session and it definitely was more satisfying technically than the first one. It seemed to appear to be quite popular, hope you'll be glad to hear more of these incoming 
Though.. could anyone tell me what do I do wrong with this one, that it looks so much better opened in PS than viewed elsewhere/uploaded here? It looses loads of it's clarity and colours. Help 
As always thanks a bunch for all your time
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | Canon EF-S 18-55mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | flashback |
| Username: | 
Milla |
| Uploaded: | 9 May 2008 - 9:21 AM |
| Tags: | Eye, Flash / lighting, Flashback, General, Light, Milla, Portrait, Portraits / people, Self portrait, Shadow, Woman |
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Without a shadow of a doubt your best work yet Milla. V2 is good but V1 gets my vote .... the subtle colours add a lot of depth to the image.
Maybe the eyes could do with being a touch sharper, but that's a minor niggle.
Regarding looking better in PS, just a few thoughts .....
Once you've resized for EPZ, do you sharpen again. If not they can look a little soft. Before converting to JPEG for EPZ I convert the colour profile from Adobe RGB as captured by the camera to Adobe sRGB. If I don't do this then I find the colours look flat and washed out viewed on EPZ.
Yay, thank you so much for all these kind words, very encouraging, surely gonna work on rest of the shots from this session
Many thanks for your advise, Dave, it in fact looks as intended now, uploading the proper version right away to show the difference. Cheers for that!
Now you have given me a real problem. I have alerady short listed you picture of that little girl and now you have produced this! It looks nothing in the thumbnail but when opened up is excellent.
So subtle, I particularly like the way there is detail in both eyes. There is an air of great mystery.
One small point. I would clone out the streak of light on the white of the right eye. Just leave the highlight in the pupil.
Lol lonely_oryx, such a coincidednce, as I'm waiting for tomorrow to give my award to your brilliant Kathmandu trader shot I'm so glad you like this one, thank you!
And about the eye, yeah, you're right, it didn't work too well for me either, that spot of light distorts the eye. No clue why I didn't clone it out tbh, probably just because it's how was it taken lol. Promise to upload corrected version for you this afternoon, out of time at the moment.
Thanks once again for your comments, people
Agree with Mr U on this one, as for the loss of detail when resizing down click the very bottom drop down menu an choose Bicubic Sharper (best for reduction) and then when youopen up "save for web" just across from preset menu two little arrows >> click on these and choose "optimise to file size" and set that at 400k, then at the top of the screen just above the top right corner of your picture another two >> click here and then try out the different results by switching between the four different options to do with "uncompensated colour" "standard windows colour" or "use document colour profile" etc, and as DaveU says make sure that the colour profile is set to sRGB on your camera and sRGB in your colour profile settings within PShop and with some sharpening this may help.
I hope this makes sense!!!!
pretty outstanding. Cinematographic. Carrie Ann Moss comes to mind.
Wow, all these kind comments are encouraging and motivating to me, thanks a bunch for them, people.
Darren, you most likely don't even suspect how helpful was that, cheers! Yes, it does make a lot of sense, forget of charging me for that though! 
And you're damn right with cinematographic track, Koen, I'm fairy nutty about cinema and find loads of inspiration in there.
Stunning work Milla yes agree with "your best yet" great shadows, the problems your having does'nt distract from these images, I tend to use unsharp mask when sharpening after I have reduced the filesize for epz, yes bicubic smoother does help too.the advice your getting on here fro everyone is spot on..
Bernie
Wow you just keep getting better looked back to your beginings and you have excelled keep on coming.
Dave
From the series I like version 3 most. Great concept and Idea. regards,
Rolan
I prefer the mono (duo?) in version 2. And like the treatment on the eyes on 4. Nice work
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