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Monthly Archives: March 2015

Chanelle

30 Monday Mar 2015

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From a longer time ago, this is the beautiful Chanelle, relaxing after the yoga exercises I had to put her through during the shoot. 🙂

Resting ;-)

Resting 😉

Kelly

29 Sunday Mar 2015

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Another one from Kelly from last week. Hard spotlight, sharp shadows.

In the spotlight

In the spotlight

Kelly

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Kelly sitting in front of my wall. My studio really has 2 spots where I can take my pictures; a side where I have my paper backgrounds (where I mostly just use either black or white; white becomes gray if you take care of your lighting).

The other side is the wall (my Pinterest account has a special section dedicated to it). It’s white, has a corner and is perfect for sitting photos like this. I want to add some kind of boarded section though to create a real corner, that would give some more options.

I like the action here, something is happening, she’s putting on (or taking off?) her shoes. The slant is not subtle, but I like it this way.

Putting on her shoes

Putting on her shoes

Kelly

25 Wednesday Mar 2015

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Here’s another one from last Monday. Blonde hair gives nice highlights. Love her expression.

Looking invincible

Looking invincible

Kelly

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Yesterday I had Kelly in front of the camera. Tried some high-key, which mostly actually only became apparent in Photoshop. Desaturated quite a bit, and raised the black end using a Curves adjustment layer to get that low-contrast look.

In high key

In high key

Maaike

20 Friday Mar 2015

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It’s not really Rembrandt lighting but the colors looked so nice, I decided to give it a bit more of a painting look. Hope you like it. 🙂

This one went through some changes from the original, to get a bit of that ‘old painting’ look. It was mostly based on a tutorial on Youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiZC9gDNjI

To summarize:

  • First I did some cleanup on the skin (not that Maaike needs much);
  • Fixed up the roll of paper in the background a little, plus cleaned up dirt on the floor (moving around strobes and ladies with high heels roaming around does that);
  • Raised the lower end of luminance a little (added a curve with the leftmost point a bit higher, to raise black to dark gray).
  • Added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to dial in a bit of yellow (turn ‘Colorize’ on and mix a bit only using the layer opacity).
  • Added a Color Lookup adjustment layer, selected the 3D Lut named ‘Candlelight.CUBE’. This gives a lot of the painting atmosphere.
  • Added a cracked overlay; for an example texture, see the youtube tutorial above.
  • Added a small Rembrandt fake signature to finish things. 🙂
Painting with Photoshop

Painting with Photoshop

Jessica

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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From about two months ago, this is Jessica in one of the first photographs of the shoot.

In a sexy shirt

In a sexy shirt

Melanie

19 Thursday Mar 2015

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Another one from a month ago; Melanie showing off her beautifully toned belly.

Pulling

Pulling

Cathelijne

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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One more from the beautiful Cathelijne, harsh light (but she can take it) against my studio wall.

In the spotlight

In the spotlight

Pondering

16 Monday Mar 2015

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This one was lit using a strip light which was very close to the model. That type of distance always gives a lot of contrast between the close and far sides of the model (compared to putting the light further away). Now my studio isn’t that large so I’m quickly bound to such types of photographs. 😉

Still, combined with the pondering expression of the model it makes this one of my favorites.

Strip light on camera right

Strip light on camera right

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