Koray wrote:
I like your clean approach and especially the second one.
Good work with the first but it seems a bit incomplete to me for some reason.

Yay, Koray's here! Please tell me more! What would you have done differently?

Shon D.- Femme wrote:
What would you have done differently?

I have no idea what I would do but my eyes end up looking at the lower half for some reason rather than the upper.
I would try to balance that, try to get more attention to the face and the hair. Make the tones and values match the legs.
You may want to experiment with some different cropping too. You know rule of thirds etc

Alfiere wrote:
Does anyone have any thoughts?

Dude you have photos of Eden...You should have no worries...ever

Seriously though, its not that hard to make darker skin darker with some nice cool tones.
Make a thread in the forums and I'm sure you'll get plenty of help

Alfiere wrote:
i like both of them. I feel you lost the dark wonderful tones of her skin. Was it lightroom bumping the orange luminace? I keep hitting that wall with dark skinned models. I want bright dark skin.. is it just impossible in situations like that? I get retouch jobs all the tme with photos looking very much like what you started with in image 1. My end results come out close to the same.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Orange luminance? What do you mean? Talk to me like I'm a child when it comes to this stuff, lol. Also, are you saying I lost the dark tones of her skin in my edit that were present in the original photo or that they were lost to begin with?

Sorry, I'm confused lol.

Shon D.- Homme wrote:
More?

Nope thats it

at least from me

Koray wrote:

Nope thats it

at least from me

LOL, thanks!