Hi, there. I had this photoshoot done with a friend of mine who is b&w experimental photographer. He then gave me all the images and told me to play with them in Photoshop. I keep staring at them and don't even know where to start.
He has done one, but I don't think I want to go that way, because I think a warmer effect would work better for a subject such as female body, instead of turning me into this tragic ice queen.
Original
Retouched
Perhaps someone can send me a link to another photographer style I can emulate? I've uploaded photos to Picasa - link below
Chapter 3. Early Artistic Solarization http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/wljeme/Chapt3.html
thanks, checking this out now
I think you can find a middle ground and still keep the solarization and find a warmer effect you're looking for.
It'sa difficult set to work from. I can see where he was going though.
First I played with the image rotation.
I lowered the contrast which rescued the dark areas of the image a bit.
I made a new layer and Gaussian blurred it and dropped it's opacity down, which will give a warmer effect just by softening the image - classic cheesy bloom.
I merged layers and duplicated the merge to a new layer. I solarized the new layer and set it to the darken blend mode.
I then used the eraser with a large air brush brush and erased out solarization bits I didn't like. This exposes the original un-solarized image underneath. Then I airbrushed the background a bit to generalize it to bring the focus to the figure.
The picasa pics are a bit compressed. Working with RAWs might provide more data to pull from, but meh, you see what i was thinking.
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When I decide on making a black and white I generally want to make sure there is both a "white" white and a "black" black in the exposure. That contrast is important to me. I kinda like the inverted b&w you show. Definitely is in keeping with that high contrast preference for me.