Portraits of an actress for c & c

Morlar

Here are a couple of portraits for c & c



I know the frames are a bit gimmicky but I decided to use them anyway.




The originals are here ;

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46328022/

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46328164/

Victor

Keep mouth "shut" - I can see the lipstick / no lipstick line.

The low neckline is suggestive - this can backfire.

Are there shots that show her full head and shoulders?

Morlar

Victor wrote:

Are there shots that show her full head and shoulders?

There are but not online - those ones there lost about 25% in the crop (to fit the frames). I took a good few in that session including full length, 3/4 and so on but those ones arent really finished yet.

DotOrg

he skin is very shiny for this kind of shot, one of the things a pro make-up artist would do is take that away and even out the skin

they are very shadowy/contrasty but depends on what they'll be used for if this is a bad thing

Morlar

Thanks for checking - these ones were just for my site - the ones I gave the actress didnt have the frames and were not cropped so much. There was no make up artist on the day, maybe next time. The processing of the bw one may have added to the look of the skin - they were both taken at the same exposure and so on. Thanks for commenting.

melekalikimaka

i like the first one, she is a bit shiney, maybe a diffuser may have reduced that i dunno, lovely tho, compostion wise, hot photo wise

Tarakiwa

I think that the 1st one is beautiful. I cant stop looking at her eyes!

Shrimp

I'd ditch the frames. The lighting is very harsh in them.. also.. I'm not a huge fan of the close crop. Any more from the set?

Hugh_C

weirdly enough the BW version works much better on the deviant site, maybe coz it's so much smaller, I find the size of these too close, intimate and overwhelming.

Makeup is a little dodgy, you could try doing a blur/multiply/curves type treatment in PShop, you know, duplicate a layer, apply gaussian blur, composite using multiply and then gamma-correct the fcuk out of the result, tends to be very kind on complexions.

Compelling eyes however, I like the way she engages you. Mouth is a prob as others have said.

Morlar

Thanks for commenting.

Shrimp - there is another one other on the devart site if your curious its also got the frame & 4x5 crop.

Hugh_C

I uploaded what I meant about the blur/multiply thing - hope you don't mind me taking the liberty of editing your image...

hc

Morlar

hughchal wrote:

I uploaded what I meant about the blur/multiply thing - hope you don't mind me taking the liberty of editing your image...

hc

Not meaning to sound snotty but I would prefer you didnt ! I already have more than a few variations of that one that I did up before christmas - was going to upload one last night then decided not to.

Hugh_C

Morlar wrote:

Not meaning to sound snotty but I would prefer you didnt ! I already have more than a few variations of that one that I did up before christmas - was going to upload one last night then decided not to.

Sure no prob, removed.

Morlar

hughchal wrote:

Sure no prob, removed.

Cool - cheers for that.