Mira --> Twilight-ish transformation

[Daylon]

Friend of mine's daughter turned 10 yesterday, he thought it would be a cool present for me to take a headshot of her, and do some vampiric conversion.

Here's the process I made up last night - C&C welcome

Original Shot



Exp correction, saturation boost in Lightroom



Export to PS - Healng brush, remove hair from left eye, portraiture filter pass, eyedropper sample + very light brush to even out skin tone, noise ninja pass



Export back into Lightroom - Dragan Filter applied, color / contrast tweaks


Back to Photoshop, Create Layer via Copy, boost yellow saturation, lightly erase eye color



Flatten image, more yellow / red saturation tweaks


Noise Ninja pass to smooth everything out even more


Final red saturation / luminance boost in Lightroom to make everything pop

And Voila! Instant mini-punk nosferatu.

[Cajungaltx]

lol.... that's kind of cool in a weird vampire way... ;-)

[Daylon]

Well, I've created a monster (literally)... guess what her girlfriends at school want now?

;-)

D.

[Jake]

Interesting.
But why start with such underexposed image?
IMHO, I think it would look better if the face wasn't blown out.

[Daylon]

I only had about 2 min to take the pic.. so it came out underexposed.. bit of a rush job.

[49884]

Whoa! Intense. Funny what inspires kids these days. I guess we would have liked it too in our youth had the technology been there to make such photo's.