Olga is selling doors ...

[Yuri Pautov]

As you understood, our apartment is under 'remont' - any other word will not be correct (in English:repair, maintenance...) so I met her in a shop ...
We have cold windy days here - so I made several b&w.
1.
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2118.jpg
2.
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2117.jpg
3.
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2115.jpg

Now I want to show color :

http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2119.jpg

and to her full height photo:
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2120.jpg
Comment and critique, please...
Yuri

[4labs]

Superb as usual Yuri. I don't care for theh transition from light to dark in the first one. The left side seems too soft for my taste.. The second one looks right out of a magazine.I really love it. Thnxs for sharing..

[Steve Cavigliano]

to be able to shoot a beauty like her :jawdrop


Of course, my shots wouldn't do her justice like yours do :thumb :thumb

They are all really good :clap I agree about that 2nd one looking like it came right out of a magazine like Cosmo. All your post processing treatments work and I think this lady is going to be thrilled with what you captured.


Good stuff, as per normal, Yuri and thanks for sharing,
Steve

[Davidoff]

Great as always Yuri. The second would make her proud in paper for shure !

[Nikolai]

My sincere condolences about the "remont" thingie, god knows I know what it is (or what it used to be at least:-)

Back to the pictures:-)

I enjoyed them all, as always (esp. the last one:-)

But since you've asked for the critique..:-)

It seems to me that the b&w #1 is a bit flat/bland...
I like #2 more, and #3 is the winner (even though I still think it need a bit more post proc work, too)

In any case - bring more of them!:thumb

[DavidTO]

Yuri,

I love the first one, and I like the fact that you decided to go soft in the curves...but I do think you have a problem in the curves or conversion, and I think you need to put just a touch more punch back into it. The others are nice, but much too harsh on the contrast for the first pic, which looks nice, like I said, with soft contrast. I'd just give the conversion another go and see if you can retain the strengths of the shot and improve on the weaknesses (real specific, eh?)

[binghott]

beautiful work!

for some reason, the 2nd picture makes me think of abercrombie and fitch ads and catalogs.

[Kagan]

Beautiful yet again Yuri. Love the work. Would you mind showing some 'before and after' this time as well? I love seeing what you do to make them even better. Again Bravo!

[dragon300zx]

Yuri how do you get all these beautifull women to pose for you. Whenever I want to approach someone in public who looks like this and ask them to take their picture like this I stop after I get the mental image of them either smaking me or their bf who is twice my size breaking my hands. :dunno

[dy1119]

Great shts, Uri, especially # 1 & 3 :clap . I don't care what she sells - I buy!

Dror

[sash]

yuri, put me on the list of buyers too :clap simply beautiful, the second shot is stunning... great job in post as well :thumb the first one might benefit from some curves or the like... imo that one lacks just a little bit of "yuri" for my taste, lol.

excellent as always!
sascha

[Phil U.]

Yuri - ugh, I know what you mean. My house has been in and out of remodeling for the past year. Good luck to you on that one.

#2 is the clear winner for my taste on 2 different levels - it shows a sweetness that I'm a sucker for and photographically I think it's the best. I like it a lot.

#1 - soft is good, but this looks pretty flat to me. I like the expression, eyes, and crop

#3 - good, but for a reason I can't quite explain her expression doesn't really draw me in - she almost looks like she needs more sleep.

Don't get me wrong, they're nice & far better than I could do - just sharing my point of view.

[Khaos]

:thumb #2. :thumb Wow you really captured her with that one.

[Yuri Pautov]

Beautiful yet again Yuri. Love the work. Would you mind showing some 'before and after' this time as well? I love seeing what you do to make them even better. Again Bravo!

Here they are:
Original

http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2121.jpg

and after postprocessing


http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/2122.jpg
This is my today's try.
What I did:
- cropped
- cleaned the face with Health brush.
- unsharp mask 98/0.4/0 for eyes
- Image->Adjustment-> Shadows highlight
Amount 50
Tonal 40
Radius 30

0/50/30

color correction -25
midtone 3

Duplicate layer

Filter Optikvervelabs Charachter with 'my' parameters

Duplicate layer - Harry's method with multiply blending mode

Hope this will help you
Yuri

[Umbro]

#2 for me , very dusky maiden. Great shot
I like the look of #1 but would like to see a bit of shadow/highlight in PS perhaps?
Pretty new here so i've not had a chance to see much of your work, but hope to see much more :thumb

[digital faerie]

hi Yuri! *hugs*

I have to agree with whoever said #2 looks like it would belong in a magazine. WOW. :thumb