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Not exactly conventional portrait (more commercial) so i’ll put it in here. Comments and Critique.
Credits:
Makeup: The Make-up Room (Dublin)
Model: Morgan Agency (Dublin)Good lighting and composition.
She has some spot under her lips on left side and the eye white is little bit red.
Please, don’t hate me. :wink:Lol Roberto, :) It used to be exposure and composition, i can handle freckles and red eyes :).. oh and goosebumps hehe..
Ali, I like it! All these above are just smal things what you can change.
Ali wrote:
Not exactly conventional portrait (more commercial) so i’ll put it in here.
Hey Ali, given the fan-blown hair and fact it’s a strobe-lit studio shot maybe a “Glamour” portrait? ;)
Is there professional make-up involved here? It’s certainly subtly done. Hardly noticeable at all (apart from the bottom lip, and maybe under her right eye) which I guess is exactly what is required.
I like it – good shot! There’s something missing though. I can’t quite put my fingers on it but the image just doesn’t “pop” out at me. Don’t know if it’s insufficient overall contrast or just not enough colour contrast.
BTW, how did you manage to get a model from and agency?
Thanks a mil all for the comments. I was working to a briefing so the image had to be clean not over processed
and typical of what you might see in a teen mag. The makeup was excellently done, absolutely no software was
used to smooth the skin or healing brush – the skin is untouched. In the long run, the makeup artist
gets a perfect representation of their work, the agency gets a realistic shot of their model and i dont have to spent 10 mins
photoshopping. Everyone”s happy. :)Yes indeed this speaks commercial to me especially the mags of bliss,kiss etc..these shots never fail to sell,have you ever tried using a tri-flector underneath ,especially with a gold tint,it can lift the lower part of the face with that sunkissed look..Think lastolite make them. The right side of the face looks a little hot on exposure but personally i like this effect.
Are you going to post any work of that recent shoot you had on sat,would love to see some.
Ben :lol:Thanks so much Ben, this is exactly the type of critique i need to learn, really appreciate it. I’ll definitely have a look into the tri-flector. My wish list is getting longer by the minute. :)
I”ll send you on another shot from the other day to see what you think.
Thanks AgainAli wrote:
… I’ll definitely have a look into the tri-flector. My wish list is getting longer by the minute. :) …
Very impressive image. Your photography has really taken off and passed many of us by!
There’s a silver/white Tri-flector at my place if you are up here again.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks a mil All :)
Bertie, i must even take a trip up to you even just for a coffee and a chat. I might definitely take you
up on that offer of borrowing your tri-flector. Thanks again.Ali wrote:
Thanks a mil All :)
Bertie, i must even take a trip up to you even just for a coffee and a chat. I might definitely take you
up on that offer of borrowing your tri-flector. Thanks again.I rather like the sound of that. Drop me a line sometime when you’re free and we’ll see what we can arrange. I probably won’t use the tri-flector much in September, so you could have it for most of the month.
Be careful using any gold reflector if you’re shooting digital, especially if the model has makeup on. I’ve now stopped using a gold reflector altogether when shooting digitally as the results have always looked gross and from what little research I’ve done on the internet, it seems there’s a general consensus that gold reflectors and digital are a bad combination! Apparently a mixed gold/silver reflector works well, but I haven’t got one of those so I can’t say and will stick to using silver or white depending on requirements.
ecp wrote:
Be careful using any gold reflector if you’re shooting digital, especially if the model has makeup on. I’ve now stopped using a gold reflector altogether when shooting digitally as the results have always looked gross and from what little research I’ve done on the internet, it seems there’s a general consensus that gold reflectors and digital are a bad combination! Apparently a mixed gold/silver reflector works well, but I haven’t got one of those so I can’t say and will stick to using silver or white depending on requirements.
I dont really get why the combination of Gold reflector and digital an issue – where it is not an issue for film and gold reflectors ? I can see how they can be overdone (especially depending on the skin tone/ heavy makeup or fake tan)- but wouldnt that apply equally to film too ?
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