Fine art portrait
Hello everybody,
what do you think about this before/after picture ?
More Posts in: Before & After - Post Production
Dean Wilson
Taking A Closer Look
As we walk around whether in the neighborhood or on vacations our eyes are attracted to something and we choose to either ignore it or pick it up and carry it around before discarding.
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Last: Jul 07, 2026
Santillo Photography
... all in camera ...
This image from the late 1980s, predates all digital editing and what is captured, is exactly what was seen in viewfinder - there was no postproduction editing.
Santillo Photography
Model testing
This image was done in late 1980s on Polaroid's instant slide film Polapan - a prefect film for beauty and boudoir photography as skin tones were rendered silky.
Santillo Photography
Waiting ... in Paris
... a 'grab' just after I changed lens and model was no posing
Will Santillo
from the streets of Paris
Flâner - French for: to stroll, observe surroundings, and savouring the moments without any specific goal
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Last: Jul 03, 2026
4 Comments
The model is lovely and the lighting looks decent. The quality of the skin retouching doesn't look bad, but I personally do not care for the color toning (she looks gray, probably because the red channel was desaturated too much in her skin?) or the exposure (too dark for no reason). Her hair doesn't seem to match up with the rest of the image, it looks over saturated compared to her gray skin. The other thing I would do is crop the image so that the sleeve of her top at bottom right isn't there anymore - there's not enough of it to be interesting, and too much to be unnoticed. The curl of her hair coming up at the bottom of the frame in the center of her chest is also distracting and awkward. Hope this helps.
Thank you very much for your analyse, everything is right, i will fix as well as i can
GREAT
super