Comments on: Here Come The Halloween Zombies – Photoshoot With Lighting Diagram

By: Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:13:00 +0000

ahh sorry Kevin, my website isn’t so good.. It’s something I’ll have to work its http://www.ohhtography.com, the lighting blog I linked to in my former post isn’t my site but rather the maker’s of the lights I use.. they linked my image and asked me to write more about it.

As for the post work,

Lightroom:
Color balance to 4.8k
+1.3 ev (it doesn’t recognise iso 80 images and makes them darker)
+88 contrast
+33 shadows
+100 clarity (the smoke killed micro contrast)
-23 blue saturation
Some dodge/burn

Photoshop:
Clone some dirt from the floor onto cloths to make them look dirty
Clean up of some some background things
overlay sharpening
Then back into light room to do some split toning (11 saturation orange hue in the shadows)
Boost the shadows a little more and a little more clarity

When I edit my images, I don’t really have a set way.. I play around with them till it feels right which can change over time.. as I want to burn her forehead down a little now as its a little to bright :)

It was quite a quick edit, I could see me tweaking the edit a bit more later and possibly adding a faint texture overlay.

By: Kevin La Rue

Kevin La Rue — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:58:00 +0000

Paul – too damned hard to post a kind comment on your blog. Here it is: “Awesome image, Paul. Can you describe what sort of post-processing you did? Thanks! Kevin”

By: Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:16:00 +0000

I agree :)

By: Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Thank you :D.

By: Justin Blair

Justin Blair — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Super cool Douglas! The toning on that image just nails the vibe as well. Great work.

By: Vic ThaGod

Vic ThaGod — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Very nice as always Doug! Great shot Paul!!

By: douglassonders

douglassonders — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:55:00 +0000

thats pretty nice Paul!

By: Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Very nice :)

I too did some zombie stuff a little while ago now and it was fun, My shot isn’t quite up to the same standard as Douglas Saunders image I thought I would share. I didn’t have a budget but I’m lucky my sister is doing a make-up course just now and a few friends were wanting to help and I even got a loan of a smoke machine.

We got the use of an old farm workshop, my daughter and a friend kindly modelled for me, we had a tone of fun.

There is a lighting diagram and also images of the lighting being built up (so you can clearly see the effect of each one) if anyone is interested over in http://www.lencarta.com/studio-lighting-blog/09/a-zombie-and-her-pet/