Candid Portrait - Every Last Morsel

This is a candid portrait snapped at the Fête de Fer - Iron Fair - today at Paimpont... who knew that a portion of french-fried could be so tasty? And would you believe that her hair was died bright green! I think though that she has a classic beauty that comes through best in B&W.

Personally I like this viewed on black...

[Janiskay]

Beautiful portrait! Beautiful girl. Great candid.

[Lisa Poland]

Beautiful shot!

[Leigh Anne Sanderson]

Great b&w!

[Rachel]

A lovely shot. When you mentioned that she had green hair, I admit to wishing you had put the colour version up!

[Ann T.]

Beautiful portrait!

[Cat Whiskers - Nan]

She is very beautiful!

[Denise (lyndemc)]

Her beautiful features take the spotlight in this B&W presentation. Otherwise I think we'd only be seeing her green hair!

[Cathie]

Beautiful candid.

[Graeme Stevens]

Superb portrait

[Shirley]

Great capture and love the processing

[Gabrielle Snyder]

Beautiful candid.

[Shepherdman]

Lovely candid shot - the green hair would have been interesting, if distracting!

[Issi Bannerman]

Super!

[Joan Robillard]

Great candid, the green hair would have been so distracting.

[Jill Hempsall]

You're absolutely right Richard, the B&W processing is just so right for this shot. Superb clarity and detail - a wonderful candid shot indeed.

[gloria jones]

Indeed a beautiful girl and you captured her so well...fabulous focus, bokeh

[Mek]

Nice candit!

[kali]

wow she is really enjoying that!

[DbJ]

downright outstanding

[Yeshanghai]

Gorgeous portrait

[PhotoCrazy]

Lovely capture!

[Kate]

Love the candid photo, she is beautiful and it looks very good in B&W.

[Rosie Kerr]

B&w is a very strong choice, given the green hair. ;) A lovely candid portrait. A question... I really like the softness of this portrait. How did you achieve it? Reduce clarity, or some other mix of processing magic?

[Nina Ganci]

brilliant timing, great concentration. wise choice for b/w considering her hair is green
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[Richard Sayer]

@rosiekerr Thanks Rosie and well observed. I'm not a great fan of negative Clarity settings because the softness usually comes with a loss of definition that I find unacceptable. To produce the softness you see here I added a 20 pixel radius Gaussian blur in PS CC and then reduced the opacity of the blur layer to about 25%.

[Francoise]

I love the combination of classic glamorous beauty with a bit a plastic.

[Annie D]

She is beautiful and b&w shows that well

[Tom]

Wonderfully expressive