Portraiture

anonymouscuban

It's been a few months since I've shot anything "in studio". Dusted off the gear and took a couple portraits of my wife. Thought I'd share.

B&W



Color

boco

mooie belichting en voldoende structuur.
grt,boco.

anonymouscuban

Thank you.

divamum

Yanno, no matter what other patterns I use, I always come back to butterfly (or off-axis butterfly). I just LIKE it.

Nice editing, too. In fact, when I saw your subject for this thread I was expecting a discussion of the software If you used it, then A+ for it (often, I don't like its results). If you did it another way.... share, please

anonymouscuban

Thanks Diva. Yeah, I agree about the butterfly pattern. You know, I've fooled around with just about every known light pattern and some not so conventional and the light pattern I used above is my favorite. Hackbone clued me into something a while back and that is that most well-known/famous portrait photographers use the same one or two light patterns for most of their work. They find a combo they like and they master it. Not saying I'm a master of anything but its the method I've been pursuing.

As for Portraiture, the plugin... it's NOT what the title implied but I did use it. I've been using it for years. Although, I apply sparingly when I do. My "technique" is quite simple. I use a combination of the healing brush and clone stamp tool (lighten/darken modes) to remove major blemishes or to even out dark/light splotches on skin. I do this on a new layer. I then run Portraiture, again, on a separate layer and adjust the opacity to my liking. Typically from 30-60% depending on the person. In Portraiture, I have a custom preset that really applies subtle changes. Really, it evens skin tone more than anything else.

anonymouscuban

Here is the B&W conversion for the second shot:

Hackbone

When using you kickers coming forward beware of how it accents rough skin areas. On my tablet there are some rough patches on her cheeks that might have been accented by the portrature plug in. Don't forget to erase the softening from the eyes, eyebrows, lips, nostrils, hair and some jewelry

Nice shots.

Bryce Wilson

My personal opinion, and that's what makes photography so wonderful, everybody has an opinion and seldom are they ever totally right or totally wrong, but this particular lighting scheme (for a head shot portrait) in the second image is best used on a masculine subject.

Being as this raisin detesting subject is anything BUT masculine, it doesn't work for me.

My two cents at no additional charge.

Merry Christmas.