Nao in Kimono (Really this time!)

iamagoo

I've uploaded just these 2 to my site as I felt bad for my last unintentionally mistaken posting here. There are a lot more but it will take me weeks to get through my backlog of files waiting for editing. C & C is appreciated in all forms. I'm quite new at the studio work.
Thanks,
Chris

Shima

Lovely colors, and a beautiful model in a beautiful kimono

Qarik

face is bit shiny on teh 1st pic. Nice and sharp and good muted colors but I wonder if might work better with some more saturation and contrast..add some pop to it.

heatherfeather

Love them both. But especially #2- I love her hands the most- and think that they would have been the most interesting part of the frame had they not been cut off. Excellent work and lighting.

Agnieszka

Beautiful!!

photoshow

Nice shots of a beautiful model. My one suggestion would be using a hair light to help separate her from the background and give the images more depth and dimension.

iamagoo

hairlight

photoshow wrote:

Nice shots of a beautiful model. My one suggestion would be using a hair light to help separate her from the background and give the images more depth and dimension.

Thanks for that, I have a rather small space to work in so sometimes I can't manage a hairlight effectively but I agree it definitely would have helped here.

photoshow

iamagoo wrote:

Thanks for that, I have a rather small space to work in so sometimes I can't manage a hairlight effectively but I agree it definitely would have helped here.

If you lack the space to set a hairlight there are some layer tricks you can use in Photoshop to simulate a hairlight and create a little bit of rim to separate her from the BG.

On a duplicate layer of the image make a levels adjustment that boost the midtones until the edge detail appears in the hair then simply erase all but the little bit of hair needed to provide separation and maybe adjust layer opacity a little to blend if needed and viola' instant hairlight :-)