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As is customary for me at this point, today I had a dig and delve through my hard drive at old photoshoots to see if anything I gave a pass of originally perhaps now leapt out at me. This is one such image. I feel that I've already uploaded the 'best' images from my shoot in London with model/fire performer Rebecca Crow, so I feel a bit of free reign to have a play around with these newer images, and just seeing if anything takes my fancy.
I did a bit of frequency separation in the skin retouching for this image, as it's something I've been meaning to try for a little while now, and as no doubt you will have already noticed, the colours in this image are pretty brash. I feel I've done the sensible uploads from this shoot, so my aim for this image was just to try out some new techniques and have a bit of fun. Do I think the red and yellow colour balance is better than if the image utilised the natural colours in the image? Not really. I do love the skin on this image though, and although I'm not too sure exactly what it is I love about it, from the colours to the textures, I know creating an image like this is a start to furthering my understanding of more 'out-there' editing choices. Not every image I upload on this site is a 'final' image, or a 'portfolio shot', so take it with a pinch of salt I guess. I enjoy this now, I may hate it tomorrow, it's all part of taking chances and having fun with image creation.
strobist: Einstein with PLM silver umbrella with diffusor to camera right about 4 ft from subject. 430 exII in shoot through behind and to the left. Silver reflector sitting in a chair in front of subject.
Composite image.
Strobist for equipment shot (phoropter):
430 exii in shoot through aimed at device
shot with Canon 35mm f/2
all fired with cybersyncs
been trying out a new retouching technique called frequency separation. it is a non-destructive way to retouch skin. amazing! takes a while but definitely worth it.
From the "Dragon Con Night at the Aquarium" event. At this time, I do not have the cosplayer's information but will updated when I find out who she is.
UPDATE: The cosplayer found my card and contacted me. She is on-line as Literary Princess and loved this photo I took of her!
YN-560 on 33" white umbrella camera right 1/32
YN-560 on 33" white umbrella camera left 1/16
Bare SB-900 left-back 1/16
I'm honestly not sure who/what she is supposed to be dressed as. But I'm getting a very strong elf and pirate vibe from her outfit so I went with that to title the image.
I used the frequency separation technique to smooth out her skin.
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Just "brushing up" on some beauty retouching ;) Any of my fellow retouchers out there, if you don't include frequency separation into your process I HIGHLY suggest trying it out. Here is a great video from the almighty Phlearn team explaining how to use frequency separation.
Image modified with Nik Software's Color Efex Pro filters (Infrared, Darken/Lighten Center, and Pro Contrast). I also used the frequency separation technique to remove fly-away hairs and smooth out her skin texture.
Gaia started out as a completely different concept but when looking through my stock images I liked how the mountains, which I photographed out of a train window in Switzerland, followed the shape of the hair in my portrait image. I built up a scene using more photographs from Switzerland and composited in some animals to give interest to the scene. The image was created as a demonstration of how to retouch a portrait which you can read about at www.exposingillusions.com.
An interesting technique - if you view the photo full size you will see that the texture of the skin has been retained
retouch that preserves exisiting skin texture- using high frequency separation technique-Thank you Stephen
changed blend mode for texture layer to vivid light- looked better than the recommended linear burn
2 Afters- normal glamour retouch and added drama retouch
eye and lip color changes and hair highlights
Before/After of a professional business portrait from a recent location shoot I did. Utilized the frequency separation method as well as general D&B, along with extending the neck and liquifying the chin area.
I do not know who the cosplayer is. I just remember that she primarily spoke Spanish and only understood a little bit of English. I think she looked muy bella.
Photoshoot in Pere Lachaise, Cemetery, Paris, France.
Editing: Frequency separation in photoshop, B&W and split tone (blue tone applied to shadows, sepia tone applied to highlights) in Lightroom
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Strobist:
Einstein with PLM silver umbrella and Paul Buff white diffusor in the front just a little to the left and above. silver reflector on table just in front of and laying on a table. 2 - 430 EXII's with white diffusor umbrellas pointing half towards the silver screen and towards the client on both sides. Background for composite lit by Einstein. Image is a composite.
Learning is my mission so some flash, good light modifiers a some easy tricks in photoshop and ta ta
First attempt at frequency separation and inverted high pass retouching together. Makeup by Liezel Mayers.
Re-edit of an old photo of my wife from 2011
background HDR, painted in model from original.
frequency separation
Took this with equipment when I was first starting out but always shot in raw so had the ability to go back and edit.
Strobist: one 430exII on stand right of camera with sto-fen on flash and small silver reflector on subjects left.
fired with cybersyncs
Strobist: Ambient light created with Digibee in paul buff 64" umbrella with diffusor due to room being so dark where the Bride was getting ready. Key light was Paul Buff Softbox with Einstein 640 sitting at camera left. Fired with cybersyncs. Light setting determined by light meter Sekonic LiteMaster Pro L-478D. Composite image.