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This was from a local photo meetup where I wanted to get some practice in using black back ground photos, seeing what I could achieve with a single light setup. The backdrop was a simple black cloth backdrop with a light off camera right, set up for Rembrandt lighting if she was facing straight on.

Sony a7iv
Sigma 24-70 2.8
31.9mm
f/6.3
1/250
ISO 100
Godox AD600 PRO (can't remember strobe strength)
42" Glow EZ Lock softbox

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I am interested to know what you did to finish his photo off in post. Her skin look flawless.

Color correction, some dodge & burn, very light skin blending to even out the colors. She has naturally great skin.

Thank you. I was curious as I am new to editing photos. Thanks for the reply.

A lot too processed. That's spoiled what could have been a 4*

Ok

That's your opinion and that's fine, but if you don't do any skin retouching at all for working models they won't work with you again. :)

I see a fuzziness around her like the background was painted and the exposure was brought down. it's too distracting to me which is keeping it at a 2 rather than 3. Her skin looks nice but maybe a little under exposed.

Background wasn't painted, I brought the exposure down on her because she was overexposed by 1/4-1/2 a stop (looking at the RAW now to confirm I didn't bring the background exposure down).