Girl in a doorway silhouette

[Lenny Wollitz]

I did a lot of processing on this one.  Maybe too much?

[VALERY]

Have you used kind of reflector to reflect a bit of light to the girl’s front?

• This reply was modified 1y, 4mo ago by VALERY.
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[JasenkaG]

Hi Lenny, I like the bluish tone here and I don’t think the image is overly processed. The composition is good too, the only problem is lighting because the face looks too dark compared with the rest of her body.

[Lenny Wollitz]

Valery and Jasenka, I see what you are talking about.  The face is just a black blob.  I lifted the shadows a bit but still want to keep the silhouette-ish look.  What do you think?

[VALERY]

Lenny
If there are some highlights on her face I’d emphasize them just a tad still keeping the silhouette
idea

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[Lenny Wollitz]

Hi Ken, thanks for the comment.  Highlighting the front of the subject is not a technique would have thought of for a silhouette.  I have learned a ton of new and better processing technique’s since I did this so I am going to process it again and see what it looks like.  I can’t give your idea a try because I sold the house.

[Ken Scheepers]

I’m not a portrait/person photographer but due to the harsh background lighting, I would have used a small, adjustable light panel with a CTO (color temp orange) filter to gently highlight the front of your subject. Give it a shot!

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

I think it works nicely, with the main caveat being that the skin tones should be roughly the same across all of the skin (not dark face). But solid shot.

[Lenny Wollitz]

This is a re-do.  I still want to keep some of the anonymity of the subject so the face may be too light.  I played with some of the new stuff in Lightroom.  What do you guys think?

 

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[VALERY]

Hi Lenny

personally I preferred the second version- the lighting looks more natural…

[Lenny Wollitz]

I agree Valery, and this one is not really a silhouette.

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Yeah I would evenly darken the skin rather than light it in that case.

[Tersha]

Having looked at them all, I prefer the original, Lenny.

[Frank]

I like the one showing just a bit of the face. Too much detail on the face loses some of the mystery.

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