amazing, almost looks not real...but not sure how about the skin texture look on her pores tho...wondering if some smoothing would look better....but incredible nonetheless!
A question: Is the look of her skin makeup or post-processing? I'm guessing makeup, but you can do some amazing things in software these days.
And one more: What is the lighting setup? Based on the catch lights, I see two lights. One is big. An octabox or umbrella? Just to the left of the camera?? The other is smaller and higher? Maybe a reflector? It gives a lovely soft look, however, you did it.
I tend to enhance the pores on the skin to add more texture. Trying to go for that very detailed image
Kell wrote:
amazing, almost looks not real...but not sure how about the skin texture look on her pores tho...wondering if some smoothing would look better....but incredible nonetheless!
Thanks alot Daven. It was a one light set up with a reflector below. The reflector is what u can see that looks like a huge light source. I tend to shoow with small octaboxes instead of a beauty dish now. I love that soft light it produces vs the hard light of the beauty dish. I'll probaly post some before and after images just to show my retouching.
ucphotog wrote:
Lovely lighting and poses.
A question: Is the look of her skin makeup or post-processing? I'm guessing makeup, but you can do some amazing things in software these days.
And one more: What is the lighting setup? Based on the catch lights, I see two lights. One is big. An octabox or umbrella? Just to the left of the camera?? The other is smaller and higher? Maybe a reflector? It gives a lovely soft look, however, you did it.
The lighting and framing are superb. I do however express the same concern as some other about the skin. While I don't like the plastic look that some tend to achieve by overly post processing the image, the first thing I noticed is how sharp the skin texture was. I'd just touch down a bit - not too much, just a little. But they are lovely images nonetheless.
sasho_p wrote:
The lighting and framing are superb. I do however express the same concern as some other about the skin. While I don't like the plastic look that some tend to achieve by overly post processing the image, the first thing I noticed is how sharp the skin texture was. I'd just touch down a bit - not too much, just a little. But they are lovely images nonetheless.
Nice images! I prefer the first one because you can see her eyes and eyelashes better
In addition to the skin issues already mentioned I think that the color of her skin is not matching in her face, hands and neck. Maybe I'd fine tune that a bit.
Thanks alot..i'll work on matching those tones better.
VilleK wrote:
Nice images! I prefer the first one because you can see her eyes and eyelashes better
In addition to the skin issues already mentioned I think that the color of her skin is not matching in her face, hands and neck. Maybe I'd fine tune that a bit.