Shot with the FE 85, Xplor 400 Pro and a Glow EZ Lock 48” Octabox.
This was a very simple color grade but in my never ending quest to find new ways to dodge and burn to add depth to my shots, I have just recently started to dodge and burn faces with solid color adjustment layers in PS. It is a subtle but powerful effect, and it is easy to do quickly. There is also a before and after of this edit on my instagram illustrating this technique if anyone is interested. I’m at @mattyfein on IG.
Anyway, here is the breakdown of my solid color D&B for this shot...
Eye lids and brow bones: faint lilac color, soft light blend mode
Cheek bone: bright tan color, soft light
Cheeks: darker reddish brown, soft light
Cupid’s bow and nose: tan, soft light
Lips: pink with screen, dark red with soft light
If you have Lumenzia or any other means to create simple luminosity masks, you can make selections of the regions you are going to D&B before painting and the results will be more realistic and enhance micro contrast as they vary will vary in intensity with the model’s skin texture. In other words, since a pore has a lower luminosity value than a tiny piece of non-recessed skin that is ever so slightly closer to the camera, it will be brightened proportionately less when dodging.
Maintaining the skin texture is especially useful for realistic lip retouching. To dodge, I used a pink color that was lighter than the lips in screen mode, selected a lights mask in Lumenzia, and then painted over the highlights. To burn, I used the darker red color in soft light blend mode, selected a darker mid tones mask that excluded the highlights, and then painted over the lips. The net result enhances depth and volume with luminosity and color without smearing the details of the lips by brightening and adding pink to the highlights in the middle (making them appear closer to the lens) while darkening and adding red to darker mid tones surrounding them (pushing them further away from the lens).
Cheers and stay safe everyone,
Matt
Mar 31, 2020 at 01:37 PM
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