Old Face by Didiz

[didiz]

http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/oldface.jpg

25% crop from the original photo.
taken using 105mm micro nikkor.
some pp.

[desaintlights]

pp on the eyes ?

[Alan_drg]

Great shoot and PP but thighter crop to the face more impact?

[noordin]

Nice. :O0

But may I suggest that you clone out the two spots in the background. And are the eyes really blue? :?

[halimhamdan]

i know his style.. he doesn't like to PP his pic..

i believe all here are original..

good job bro!!!!

[didiz]

halim; not really, i do like pp but not to all my work/photos.
noordin; not blue eyes, but fx from the technique in photoshop turn it blue.
alan; yup, i crop to make it more impact.

here another sample and the original one.

http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/oldface_original.jpg
original


http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/oldface_edited.jpg
edited version 2.

if you like to see the step.
here i list down the flow.

http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_1.jpg
http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_2.jpg
http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_3.jpg
http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_4.jpg
http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_5.jpg
http://www.fotokahwin.com/fp/old_6.jpg

[ShaolinTiger]

Version 2 is better, Asians don't have blue eyes la.

[wslow]

wow..really cool!! nicely done...i would like to try it out as well..thanks alot for the tip..

[qqmeng]

nice pp technique... loves it...

care to tell us more on the steps?

[joelchu]

wow nice.... can share on us the steps? appreciate it a lot *arigato*

[nfariz8]

yeah, the ones without the blue eyes is definitely better! :D

[didiz]

things that i using in this photo editing

unsharp mask
gradient
masking
softlight
gaussion blur.
color balance


by using those tools, surely you can develop
the same style (if you can visualise the mood)