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rutt
Dec-17-2004, 05:12 AM
I met Ash about 10 years ago when he was hired to be my boss at Silicon Graphics. Since then our relationship has changed and now he is more friend than boss (I now work for a startup he founded.)

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/12815103-L.jpg
lynnma
Dec-17-2004, 05:19 AM
I met Ash about 10 years ago when he was hired to be my boss at Silicon Graphics. Since then our relationship has changed and now he is more friend than boss (I now work for a startup he founded.)


nice one Rutt... I really like it... the only tiny itsy bitsy thing I noticed right away was that his eyes are a little soft.. (or of course it could be my eyes).. I'm fanatical about eyes and I think I would have sharpened his just a tad..on the other hand you may want them just as they are..:1drink
ian408
Dec-17-2004, 06:51 AM
Nice portrait Rutt.

Tell Ash hi for me.

Ian
Andy
Dec-17-2004, 07:08 AM
i dig the portrait - and agree w/ lynn.. try a little adj on the eyes maybe, brightening them a tad, and maybe they'd respond to a little selective sharpening?

nice one!
rutt
Dec-17-2004, 10:06 AM
i dig the portrait - and agree w/ lynn.. try a little adj on the eyes maybe, brightening them a tad, and maybe they'd respond to a little selective sharpening?

nice one!
His eyes are very dark and just don't look right if dodged at all. The focus is actually pretty good, seen at high magnification. The problem, I think is that the catchlight partly obscures the pupils and makes them look a little fuzzy. So I burned in the pupils and did some selective sharpening. Too much, do you think?

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/12824891-L.jpg
damonff
Dec-17-2004, 10:40 AM
I like the first one Rutt, just the way it is.
ginger_55
Dec-17-2004, 03:06 PM
And I did just about the sloppiest job ever here. I can't go dark without it looking sloppier. I just did a very rush job at trying to figure out if it was the background bothering me, and it was. Not the portrait. I maybe brightened it 2 or 3, but basically I think the portrait is fine. I think with a different background the eyes, etc. come out more. I lifted the first photo, not the second. g

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/12834690-M.jpg