From a year ago, finally got around to processing them. Not entirely happy with the shots, I've blown the white highlights on her facial hair. I couldn't quite get the lighting the way that I wanted with the flash mounted on the camera hotshoe. Should have gotten my flash bracket, but alas, I was lazy. This was taken at 1:1 - you can see she was a large Jumper (this shot was taken with a Mark IIn, which has a 1.3x crop sensor - 28 x 18mm).
Dave
edit: the first image was a bit underexposed, had to pull it out by half a stop in RAW (I always shoot RAW). I don't usually use highlight and shadows in Photoshop, but I do admit to using it on this image, as well as my usual contrast and hue/sat adjustments. For those curious about sharpening, I tend to be quite unaggressive with my sharpening, usually using smart sharpen, 0.3 pixel, 53% on the main image, and sharpening on resize as well, although I vary the sharpening amount on a per image basis. I sometimes will use smart sharpen on the full size main image, and USM on the resized image - I tend to use the tools that Photoshop offers with the image's best IQ in mind. Never overcook a macro image with over sharpening - it's a very obvious look and doesn't look pretty. I learnt that very early on ;-)
I find, if I touch more than a simple curve adjustment, I end up not liking the processed version compard to original. On it's own it is ok, but my processing "looses" something from the image if compared to the original, sise by side... I just leave 'em alone now. Do you set you camera to "daylight"? I find myself using the Tungsten setting even in natural light.
