My latest beauty shoot project. Any feedback on the photos would appreciated.
Beauty, Portrait & Editorial Makeup Photography and Retouching
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My latest beauty shoot project. Any feedback on the photos would appreciated.
Your colour sense is exquisite.
Your model direction and lighting are first-class and your careful use of perspective is literally enviable.
But your post is letting you down. When I looked at the larger versions the model's skin looked like sandpaper or lizard skin and pimples showed. Beauty retouching bores the hell out of me (which is one reason I don't shoot the genre) but if you're going to get professional work - which I think you definitely deserve - then you either have to learn to do it or find someone you can afford to contract it out too. As a temporary measure you might try this http://www.oleg-ti.com/?mod=content&id=4
Also, are you sharpening the entire image? You might want to try producing a sharpened version as a masked layer and brushing in the sharper version just the eyes and hair and other places where it is needed.
I love the color palette, and I think you did a pretty good job with not going too far with the retouching - however, something about the texture of her skin looks overly uniform in places, or crunchy in others. Was a plugin of some sort used to try to enhance texture? There are some transitions that could use some work, such as the cheekbone down to the jaw in the first photo, and some areas that are surprisingly soft compared to others. Personally I would have done more cleanup of her brows as well. Given the overall color palette I probably would have either warmed up the "neutral" areas on her where the gelled light wasn't hitting, or go the other way and add a cyan gelled light over the front of her for even more color contrast.
Lastly, the yellow light in the last two images is too hot on her chest. It looks good in small patches such as the first two images, but it's blasting the retinas in the last two.
Hope this helps!
Hi, thank you very much for your feedback. It has helped