I want to know why my readership spikes when I post an image of a hot chick!?
Should I post one every time as a lead in?
Kinda like having desert first
Still testing hard light and B&W. The resulting B&W above is from a set of Craig Miniellys actions called I-Tones. He sets up the action in a way that you can go in and tweak it. This is actually close to what I’m looking for, which is the fashion white skin look.
With B&W to have the lips show up you need a really dark lipstick color…and I mean dark.
Don’t forget to cut off the extra length on bathing suit ties. Put a new knot in the string and then just cut it off, keep them as short as possible. Every bathing suit I’ve ever shot I’ve cut the ties quite a bit shorter, the manufacturers seem to make them extra extra long. (One of my pet peeves when I see them in a photo)
I’ve been asked in the past about cutting off a models limbs. I know it bothers some people quite a bit, but in model photography it seems the norm and no one thinks twice about it. I think this image is quite extreme in the crop but I liked her face so much I wanted to use it (I just didn’t care for the bottom as much)…so off with her limbs!
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Great result!
The expressión, hard light and tones work perfect together.
About the lipstick dark color… that’s we did on the film times… and it worked fantastic!
… but now, we have some alternatives:
Sometimes, when you decide to covert B&W “after” the shoot and/or you need a correct color version as well, you can “shift to white” the B&W image (i.e. by red channel), keepiong the red lips dark, just working with layers: one upper layer for all the white skin tones (and the rest of “near to red” tones you want lighter) and a lower layer with a different conversion to black and white, keeping the red tones dark.
Delete on the upper layer the red tones you’d like to have dark, and flatten the layers!
I’ll talk just about this in the next entry, of my retouching blog (as you can see, already announced on the last entry 🙂
http://tratamientodigital.blogspot.com/
(spanish blog, but with english translator on the top-right side)
I hope this helps!
Regards,
Miguel
http://www.photomamp.com