Pin-Up Preview (Lingerie)

LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
edited November 19, 2010 in People
I've been wanting to try my hand at pin-up photography for a while now, and I finally managed to swing it yesterday. This was a tough shoot! It was my first real attempt at high-key portraiture, and to try it with something so incredibly stylized might have been just a bit nuts. :huh But I'm ready to give it another try already!

I did her hair. She managed the liquid-liner cat-eye like a pro. :D

I hope you enjoy the sneak peek!

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Thanks for stopping by! :thumb

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 15, 2010
    Looks like somebody got an extra helping of Robert Alvarado mwink.gif
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited November 17, 2010
    Very nice preview, can't wait to see wait to see the whole set.
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    Great stuff, Kerry!
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  • zoomerzoomer Registered Users Posts: 3,688 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    I think it looks good.
    Weird to me that she is suspended in air. Maybe clone in a chair or something :)?
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited November 18, 2010
    That is way cool. How does one do the "dot" on the background, is that Photoshopped in?
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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    Thanks, all!

    Nik, thank you for the photographer's name! I knew I had seen this style a while ago when I first began looking into pin-up and had to try it, but I could not find the artist again. Proper credit where's it's due, so thank you muchly!

    Zoomer, noted. :D I do like it as it is, personally, but I have more to toy around with and will play around with "anchoring" her to see how it turns out. thumb.gif

    kdog, yes, the dot is pure Photoshop. I shot her in high key to make selecting and isolating her easier, then I essentially cut her out, placed her atop a pure white background, then sandwiched a layer between her and the white background that had a pink circle on it. Quick and easy!
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    Llywellyn wrote: »
    Nik, thank you for the photographer's name! I knew I had seen this style a while ago when I first began looking into pin-up and had to try it, but I could not find the artist again. Proper credit where's it's due, so thank you muchly!
    No worries! :-)
    And a few more nits:
    1) her right foot peeking from under her left thigh breaks her gorgeous left thigh-to-butt line and looks fairly bad; ne_nau.gif
    2) the circle would look better if it provided a visible support as if she were sitting inside it (see zoomer's "up in the air" comment).
    3) It would also help to make that circle non-flat. I'd play with a radial gradient setting the "break" point at 75% from the center, so most of the inner circle would be flat but the outer ring would start fading.
    HTH
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    I like Niks feedback. I could totally see her sitting on a 1/4 moon!!
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    Nice go but yes, up in the air. You gotta love Robert's stuff. Now to be like Robert you gotta get a gal with some tats.
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Nice go but yes, up in the air. You gotta love Robert's stuff. Now to be like Robert you gotta get a gal with some tats.

    I don't ever recall seeing the original pinups of the 50's with tats. headscratch.gif
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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    anonymouscuban wrote: »
    I don't ever recall seeing the original pinups of the 50's with tats. headscratch.gif

    Agreed, not from the 50's. But Robert loves to work with a few ladies who have wonderful tats and have been featured in various Tat magazines.
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    As I take a second look, I also wonder what wpould happen if you canted/rotated here a little? She is sitting on a circle edge but is clearly sitting horizontally. Maybe a little twist counterclockwise would help, might hurt.. but could be interesting.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 18, 2010
    BradfordBenn wrote: »
    As I take a second look, I also wonder what wpould happen if you canted/rotated here a little? She is sitting on a circle edge but is clearly sitting horizontally. Maybe a little twist counterclockwise would help, might hurt.. but could be interesting.

    Brad, you haven't read my C-theory, apparently ;-)mwink.gif
    Rotating the image would also rotate the G vector, and hair (and the pose) would be in an unnatural position, runing the Cohesiveness factor. deal.gif
    This stuff should be planned for, not adjusted in post (albeit one can try a Puppet Warp in CS5:-)
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Agreed, not from the 50's. But Robert loves to work with a few ladies who have wonderful tats and have been featured in various Tat magazines.

    Right. I've seen his work and think its cool. I just don't get the whole 50's look that the chicks with tats tend to favor. Maybe it's the juxtaposition of the tattoos with the wholesome look of that era but I still think it's odd.
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  • sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    anonymouscuban wrote: »
    Right. I've seen his work and think its cool. I just don't get the whole 50's look that the chicks with tats tend to favor. Maybe it's the juxtaposition of the tattoos with the wholesome look of that era but I still think it's odd.

    Oh - TATTOOS!!
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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    sara505 wrote: »
    Oh - TATTOOS!!

    lol3.gif Not the most widespread abbreviation, is it?
  • sara505sara505 Registered Users Posts: 1,684 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    Llywellyn wrote: »
    lol3.gif Not the most widespread abbreviation, is it?

    I thought it was a new abbreviation for something else, won't say what.rolleyes1.gif
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    HAHAHA... OK, around these parts, people referred to Tattoos as "Tats". Maybe it's spelled "Tatts"?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited November 19, 2010
    anonymouscuban wrote: »
    HAHAHA... OK, around these parts, people referred to Tattoos as "Tats". Maybe it's spelled "Tatts"?
    I heard the preferred "in-the-know" way to say it is "ink" mwink.gif, but "tats" are still widely used.
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