HF Barwench

[gi6ers]

Thought I'd practice the female form considering the upcoming contest..

Feedback appreciated and votes too:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/Gi6ers/wench3.jpg

CMON link (http://www.coolminiornot.com/144795)

[Ritual]

You should've kept this secret and entered it to the competition! ;)

[Skya]

I'd say the skin coloring is rather yellow, but given your background I'm not sure if that's just teh photography. On a technical level, the mugs look good and the skin has the right depth to it, but the green cloth needs a smoother transition between the darks and the base color on the green. You could if you prefer add highlight to it, but basically it looks blocky because there's only two colors there and they are distinctly different colors with no transition. The reds could use either another shadow or another highlight, but it isnt quite as abrupt to the eye because the red tones are much closer to each other.

I hope that helped, I'm going to so atempt to keep my sinuses from exploding my head now.

[gi6ers]

the photography didn't help the highlights unfortunately, thanks for the detailed feedback, I really appreciate it!

[gi6ers]

While I am on the subject on photography, I have a 3MP Olympus, 3 white light lamps and my photos still come out yellow-ish, I've tried a light tent or just a curved piece of white paper..and the yellow tint is still there..

Any ideas? Is the white background making it worse?

[Skya]

I'd recommend a grey or pale blue piece of paper to photograph on. Preferably of a matta texture. White tends to reflect everything and picks up even the littlest color changes. I use colored charcoal paper it seems to help.

[gi6ers]

thanks Skya!!

[Wren]

I use a medium gray background, and I have to agree with Skya that gray is a good thing to try. I used to use blue, and it added a colour cast. I switched to white and the colours were truer, but it messed with brightness and depth far more than I initially realized. This is an example of how much the background can influence things. I used the same camera and lighting set up on both of these, and did minimal photoshop type stuff (bit of brightness or contrast adjustment at most.)

http://www.coolminiornot.com/117064 - taken against a white background
http://wyrd-games.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1015 - taken against gray background

I like the depth and glow of the skin quite a bit, and the red, also. The cloth has a nice dirty look like it has been wiping tables all day. I agree with Skya that some of the transitions on the skirt are kinda harsh.

[Ritual]

When you take the photos against a pure white background, how does the white background look in the shots? Is that what we see in the photos? Could be the white balance setting on your camera. The white should come out as white in the photos. If not, then the camera isn't recording the colours correctly.

But, I agree with Skya, that a light blue or grey background is better. I use a light greyish blue and it usually works really well.

[Hinton]

Very nice work on this one. If this is just practice for the contest, then I can't wait to see your entries.

[Duende]

Does your photo program have anything to adjust the color?

I took your pic and in the second image, the only thing I did was adjust the hue away from yellow a bit and you can see the difference.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Duende71/wenchcomp.jpg

[gi6ers]

I'll try the new background, not tried the hue adjustment, will need to mess with GIMP when I get a moment. Thanks for the help folks!

[supervike]

I think she looks great Gi6ers! You do seem to improve on every mini you do.

I do think though, that the blue bandana and the hem of the dress would have been great places to try a bit of freehand (and thus adding some interest)....

[gi6ers]

yeah was tempted to try a bit of freehand but it was going so well and I didn't want to ruin it ;)