Retouching assignment

Photo 1 - Scarlett

This first photo was taken against a creamy background. I had a flashlight with umbrella on the left & a reflector on the right.

Retouching:

1. General exposure was pretty much OK

2. Clarity of total + a bit

3. Clarity of skin - quite a lot

4. Opened the raw file into photoshop

5. Patched general imperfections

6. Fixed eyebrows

7. Highlighted hair

8. removed clump of hair on RHS

9. Added hair on RHS

10. Softened hands & shoulder

11. changed colour of neck to match face & other skin

12. Selected lips & filled in.

13. worked on pores with healing

Photo 2 - Laura

This is a shot of Laura at her wedding 2 weeks ago. It was late afternoon & taken in the shade. Unfortunately a nice shot of her was spoilt by another person in the background.

Retouching:

1. Opened in raw.

2. Increased the exposure

3. Added clarity to all

4. Decreased clarity to skin

5. Opened in photoshop

6. Selected LHS of Laura to remove unwanted guest.

7. Selected area on RHS & copied 3 layers behind the hole that was made by removing unwanted guest.

8. With various tools fitted the background into image. Lightened the colour.

9. Selected strands of Laura's hair & copied sunk into top of head

10. Lightened side curls.

11. Removed chest blotches with extra layer filled with 50%grey & blended with Soft light (in the fill window) - Painted the blotches with white (4%). Haven't done that before & it worked.

12. Fixed some other remaining blotches with patch tool.

13. Made 3 layers for eye fix - middle layer colour dodge blend, light opacity.

14. mask layer above & painted whites of eyes.

15. Right eye still redish so selected it & desaturated red & lightened.

16. Decided lips didnt need fixing.

17. Cropped

Ian Golding - fashion & beauty photographer

Ian Golding & wife Liz specialise in fashion & beauty photography. Only photographer to be inducted into the Australian Hairdressing Hall of fame 2002.

her ever to be inducted into the

Australian Hairdressing

Hall of Fame (2002).

Alexia Sinclair - Kate spoke of her

Alexia Sinclair

Alexia Sinclair is a Sydney fine art photographer and internationally has won many awards. She is collected worldwide & her work appears in many magazines.

Probably her most famous series are her Regal twelve which are female heros from history including Marie Antoinette. From childhood she has loved dressing up and this along with her imagination and her artistic skills has lad to many fantastic composite photographic images. She intends to do a Royal dozen which will be like the Regal twelve but with men staring. They are indeed works of art.

Her website (http://alexiasinclair.com/) is filled with images & video clips about her life & work.