Madison

[rpcrowe]

Madison is a lovely young lady that I had the privilege to photograph in a friend's home studio this evening... I used my A7iii and 28-75mm f/2.8 lens...



I have some more I will post later

Note: I am going to give my friend a set of small lights that I have had for years but, haven't used all that much lately... She didn't have a hairlight... Giving her the set of lights, we will both get use out of them...

[Manfred M]

Nice shot Richard. A hair light would have helped. The face is a touch "hot" when compared to the rest of the image and the WB seems to be just a touch cool.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[pschlute]

Very nice Richard.

[rpcrowe]

Thank you very much - here is a monochrome image. I think that it looks like a shot from a 1940's or 1950's movie poster...



My gallery of Madison images is at:
https://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/MADISON/i-sZHrGpS

[pschlute]

Love this one too...maybe a tiny weeny bit too contrasty ?

The lighting and the colour of the jacket really suit her. I would be very pleased with these.

[Manfred M]

#5 is beautifully done as well, although if you are looking at 1940s, I would have jumped at George Hurrell's "Paramount Lighting", with the "butterfly" shadow under the model's nose, rather than broad lighting you used in this shot.

I'm not loving the look of her hand (the camera right one).

[rpcrowe]

I have a beauty dish (in fact I have two of them) and if I had known the scarcity of lighting equipment that my friend had, I would have brought the beauty dish. A beauty dish high over the camera with a fill light or reflector from lower would have resulted in the classic paramount or butterfly lighting.

I didn't know what I was getting into. I have done some shoots with my friend but, usually the models she has are not really top-notch, Madison is...

Here are a couple more...







Everything about Madison is beautiful except for her hands which are a beefy red... Looks like she has done some heavy scrubbing...

[Manfred M]

Everything about Madison is beautiful except for her hands which are a beefy red... Looks like she has done some heavy scrubbing...

The "beefy" hands have to be handled during the shoot. Ensuring you shoot them on edge, rather than flat on like you have does wonders in slimming down hands. The red colour is easy to remove in post so that it more closely matches the rest of her skin. In Photoshop, I use a Hue / Saturation adjustment layer and will desaturate the reds until they match the rest of the skin tones. A layer mask allows the effect to be applied to the problem area only. The mask can be fairly rough, as you are only working on the reds and the other colours will not be affected.