Michel wrote:
Claude, are you usually provided with a picture of the closed door and clean background when you have to work on such cleanups?
Sometimes. This time I had the closed door and clean background.
But I had to do the door differently.
Here you can see the original image of the closed door.
I'm usually asking to have the maximum of pictures (empty background, different light sources, etc...) for the maximum of possibilities... especially because some art directors can change their minds and add or take off some details after the shooting. I don't have always what I need. Often I have to create some bleed around because they originally framed the background too much tight.
Michel wrote:
Do the clients realize that the lighting on the left side of her face is improbable? Who comes up with such crazy requests for lighting?
I don't see problem here... I think they were going for the aestheticism.
By example, look at this one...
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=132678#132678
The lighting on every couples aren't fitting if you think about just the realism... the idea was just to make the people kinda pop-up from the background.
BTW, the poster you showed sucks!
That bad concept was supposed to be better in illustration.
