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My girlfriend's tiger


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xversion1

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This is my girlfriend and her tiger. She've just came back from fashion store. I lay down on the middle chair with and see the beach view...
Ofcourse, in my dream :mrgreen:


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Thanks for watching!​
 
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I like it xversion. It's very interesting and has the feeling of a dreamscape, the colors, the lighting, of course, the tiger.

I think however, that from the light flare on the tiger's face all the way to the left border is too bright/blown out as it gets farther out. Maybe it is also unnecessarily wide on the left side. That may have been your intention? You may want to try moving the tiger and your gf over some to the left and fix the brightness, it would work.
 
When I used lighting effects I thought it too bright too. I tried to modify but it didn't work. I want the leopard (tiger) at the middle. Do you have another way?
 
Smooth work, however the light on the woman is coming from the wrong angles. You need to darken her left leg, because the tiger would be casting a shadow on it. Also her left shoulder and part of her torso need to be shadowed because the light is coming from her right. The tiger's shadow needs to be longer, because the sun in the image looks like it is later in the day, and the later is it, the longer shadows are. The rest is pretty good.
 
Yeah! You right, I awared these thing but it seem hard for me to fix this, especially the shadow of the girl's head on her shoulder and her torso. May be I'll try again with some other ways.
About her left leg, I mean to make it bright because I want to emphasize her. :D
 
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xversion1 said:
Yeah! You right, I awared these thing but it seem hard for me to fix this, especially the shadow of the girl's head on her shoulder and her torso. May be I'll try again with some other ways.
About her left leg, I mean to make it bright because I want to emphasize her. :D
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If you want to alter the luminance levels, then then dodge, burn, levels, and exposure are your tools.

Sure, if you're after a stylistic look, and you are not concerned with lighting realism, then the leg isn't an issue.
 
I try some ways but I can make her dark-part body look right. May be you can save my pic and show me which part of her body have to be darker.
 
xversion1 said:
I try some ways but I can make her dark-part body look right. May be you can save my pic and show me which part of her body have to be darker.
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This is just a rough guide, but the red parts you need to darken, and the green parts should be lightened. Please excuse the added font, I was going to demonstrate it a different way, but forgot to remove the text.

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Those are good points, but the top of the knee is fine to be bright and I think a halo of brightness a slight way down the leg would be OK. As for centering the tiger. Why? Your whole dark to light gradient is just too startling a contrast. Subtle change would help. Slightly lighten the dark side and increase the details on the left or somehow bring down the light. Way too high-key.
 
Follow the suggestions of you two, make the red parts dark and the middle parts (near her left leg) of the tiger lighter. I keep her left leg bright like I said before. Just a rough way, but I think it's make the girl seem to be dimmed while I want to emphasize both the girl and the tiger.

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xversion1 said:
Follow the suggestions of you two, make the red parts dark and the middle parts (near her left leg) of the tiger lighter. I keep her left leg bright like I said before. Just a rough way, but I think it's make the girl seem to be dimmed while I want to emphasize both the girl and the tiger.

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Now you've killed the tonal transitions from light to shadow. Look at images of people standing in front of lights from one angle, you'll see what I mean. You can emphasize, but it doesn't look realistic.
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Better. I would suggest that -- as long as you're leaving faux light on her legs -- you also put some back into her face, especially on the sun side. I like that you lightened up the deck chairs. Nice to see more detail. Also, the lens flare pops out more. I would have thought the opposite :}

I guess there is nothing to be done about the blown out deck and sky? No detail left there? Anyway, it's a nice composition. I bet your girlfriend will be very pleased.
 
Spectrum said:
Now you've killed the tonal transitions from light to shadow. Look at images of people standing in front of lights from one angle, you'll see what I mean. You can emphasize, but it doesn't look realistic.
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That's true about the transitions -- I didn't pay attention -- but in fact they were never very well-defined, there was just an overall greater contrast. But yes xversion, you do need to look at how people create shadows as well as how real shadows work.
 
Thanks for your advise!
I will pay more attention observing how people create shadows. But I think fine arts-students, painter or artist maybe they know (or learned) some secrets about shadow, light... or how to make pictures look realistic. I learned about science not art. In spite of (maybe) my Photoshop knowledge's better than them, I feel like my artwork always worse than theirs. :|
 
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