For I heart Faces Challenge, this week is cars....Luckily, my friends and I have, we have a small group and we call ourselves the "Flash Party", like to get together and shoot using models and strobes. Our goals are to get used to shooting with models and learning how to control the light when using studio strobes in an outdoor setting. Here lately, we have been getting together to shoot some Pinup work at a favorite local diner that is big on cars...the cars are outstanding! The work that goes in to some of these is just mind boggling, needless to say, we really appreciate the fact that the owners let us shoot with models near their cars! And the cars are a big part of the image, they help with the feel and look and really can make or break the image....
The image I have chosen below is one of my favorites and I really enjoy the interaction between the models, Caitlin and Jenny. They really got into character for the shoot and were excellent! I would also like to thank the makeup artists that come out and help with these shoots. The overall look is a specific one and to have these women show up, do makeup in the dinning area and nail these looks is incredible! So thanks to Julie Elizabeth for the makeup and hair. Paul Breeding and Adrian David Payne for the lighting set up.
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OMgosh.. I really like this, creative very much eye candy.. Love the red.. Great shot
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ReplyDeleteBeautifully done; I love the finishing! I think you're supposed to have the "I Heart Faces" button in your post in order to be eligible to win the contest, and this one looks like a contender. Feel free to comment me if you need to know where to find it. :<)
ReplyDeleteThanks! This is the second time I have entered and I didn't realize it had to be in the post. Thanks!!!!
ReplyDeleteCan you tell us how you processed this image in photoshop?? Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI basically do my basic adjustments in Lightroom always.
ReplyDeleteI will import it then, add some fill, adjust exposure, contrast, my curve, saturation...
Then will pop it in to Photoshop. There I duplicated my background layer. I then went in and desaturated the layer to add contrast, set it to overlay. I duplicated the background layer two more times, added a layer mask, filled the layer mask with black using the paint bucket. Took the paint brush, set the opacity around 15% , set the color to white and painted in where I wanted to dodge and burn...
Set one layer to screen and one layer to multiple ( the screen layer will be for your dodging and the multiple layer will be for dodging). Make sure that the brush's softness is set to zero. That helps to achieve that nice glowing look.
Once I have dodged and burned to where I liked it, i then added to more blank layers. In one layer I painted onto the image with white paint. Set the opacity to about 12% and increase for highlights (depending on how bright you want them). I don't think I went past 30% on this image in some spots like the girls lips...
After I have painted where I want some extra pop for highlight I set the layer to soft light.
I do the next layer in black, same opacity and layer mode (soft light). Here I paint in where I want the shadows to really stand out.
The nice thing about this is and mistakes that are made, you can erase directly from the layer and it doesn't effect any part of the image.
I made sure to go over the clothing and any areas that I wanted nice detail in using shadows and light to get these effects.
These steps help to get that painterly effect.....and I do use a Wacom tablet to edit. I have a degree in Painting and it seemed like an extension of who I was anyway. I has helped me improve my editing.
I have to say some of these steps I asked Adrian David Payne about and he shared them with me and some I found out on my own....just playing around or on the internet.
Hope that helps....I did this a while back and might have forgotten a step or two...just tlet me know....
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