Most women don't touch the hair on their arms? Like I said, these lights reveal everything AND most pics of women you see get airbrushed and smoothed, this isn't my style.
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Most women don't touch the hair on their arms? Like I said, these lights reveal everything AND most pics of women you see get airbrushed and smoothed, this isn't my style.
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Cheers for that. I prefer the more 'softer' pose of that photo compared to the others.
Are the women in these photos happy at how they look? You mentioned these photos are for their website. Surely they would want them 'touched up' a bit?
Are the women in these photos happy at how they look? You mentioned these photos are for their website. Surely they would want them 'touched up' a bit?
I've shown 2 girls images so far and they've liked them
I will be experimenting with skin smoothing some more though..
I would give the skin a light smoothing. Especially if they want it for advertising. I did this in 30 seconds, you could do a lot better with more time and practice. (It's dulled the photo down a little, but with a bit of tweaking and the fullsize file it will be much easier for you.
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How do you do that then?
I think its only the forehead needs doing, and it looks ok, but i'd leave the skin detail in the arms/chest.
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Your shots aren't at all bad mate but sod me sideways they are some rough looking folk. Professional hookers perhaps?
Most of my male mates are better looking than those! lol
Most of my male mates are better looking than those! lol
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Flashes really aren't subtle. The smallest of imperfections can be made to look like small mountains.
My own approach isn't to smooth the skin so much as use the healing tool to remove or soften the tiny little light shine you get on the little bumps - so most of the natural detail is there, but the imperfections aren't what grab the attention.
It's not a quick approach, but when you get a pen in your hand it doesn't take that long. The hardest part is to control yourself to maintain a consistency across photos rather than getting carried away and healing every little blemish or bump.
It's best used in conjunction with a semi-opaque layer too. Perhaps the quickest way if you go for a softening tool (such as whatever p0ss3s3d used) is to keep an untouched layer underneath and make the top layer maybe 40% opaque (you've just got to play it by eye as it will vary with skin tone, exposure and particularly flash strength) - whatever is enough to let some texture to come through without making the subject look fake.
As I work with kids portraits I don't want to airbrush them too much - just lessen the impact of any spots. 2 layers, one with spots healed-out, and an untouched one underneath, then use the opacity slider on the top layer to see what makes the photo look natural but with the spots less distracting.
My own approach isn't to smooth the skin so much as use the healing tool to remove or soften the tiny little light shine you get on the little bumps - so most of the natural detail is there, but the imperfections aren't what grab the attention.
It's not a quick approach, but when you get a pen in your hand it doesn't take that long. The hardest part is to control yourself to maintain a consistency across photos rather than getting carried away and healing every little blemish or bump.
It's best used in conjunction with a semi-opaque layer too. Perhaps the quickest way if you go for a softening tool (such as whatever p0ss3s3d used) is to keep an untouched layer underneath and make the top layer maybe 40% opaque (you've just got to play it by eye as it will vary with skin tone, exposure and particularly flash strength) - whatever is enough to let some texture to come through without making the subject look fake.
As I work with kids portraits I don't want to airbrush them too much - just lessen the impact of any spots. 2 layers, one with spots healed-out, and an untouched one underneath, then use the opacity slider on the top layer to see what makes the photo look natural but with the spots less distracting.
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Eeek whatever you do don't smooth. You should be able to retouch the skin whilst keeping nearly all the original texture. Kinda depends how much time you have to spend on each one though really. If you really must smooth just remember to (In PS) New layer / fill with 50% grey / Noise / Gaussian Monochromatic at a low percentage / Gaussian blur to take the edge off (very low, like 1px) and 'clump' the noise / set layer blend mode to soft light. Duplicate the layer if you need more noise and adjust opacity to suit. I don't really condone the use of the above but it's a great fast way to hide mistakes and gel the file together
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teeerrruuust me, theres 2
Fozzy, heres the larger version
Not bad, she's actually fairly pretty as well. Her skin is a problem but should be able to be retouched instead of blurred, for me anyway, once the skin looks plastic the image is worthless as it looks like the life has been sucked out of them.
For next time IMO the lighting could do with at least one rim light so the shadows arn't lost in the background and so it reveal more of the shape of the girls.
I like the low key look and I think that was the right direction to go.
Just a few thoughts though on some other options for next time.
With the low key back ground you could introduce some soft furnishings like a few pillows etc. and maybe take a few shots of some legs in heals, and maybe some shots with the model with her back to you looking over her shoulder or something.
What might have been cool, is if there had been a fancy looking table (maybe more rustic) at the club, and you shot a picture (lowkey) of a pint on a table and a couple of feet in stilettos behind it.
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Below is how I would go about retouching this one...
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Wow she looks so much better Ejizz
nice work
nice work
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Did you say hi to Tara? Not a fan of the new tat but meh.
I'm a bit busy ATM so have the PSD and the finished file. I simply, merged the layers except the original and masked off the art that are to be non-blurred.
This time I might've pushed the opacity of the layer a little too far, and because I only had five it's a bit rough by her hands, but once you have the basic document you can figure my procedure ...
http://www.mediafire.com/?asc4ea3u4ufvvem
This time I might've pushed the opacity of the layer a little too far, and because I only had five it's a bit rough by her hands, but once you have the basic document you can figure my procedure ...
http://www.mediafire.com/?asc4ea3u4ufvvem
Thanks mate, I'll take a look when I get home
Yes, shes asked me to tell you to stop calling and waiting outside her window, shes sick of changing numbers