Makeup Study - Image Comping - Night Shots - New Fisheye!
Here is a shot that I did of Natalia with her MAKE UP REMOVED.
I applied makeup in post to study how girls use cosmetics to cover up blemishes in a realistic fashion. Thanks to Natalia for giving me tips on how to apply make up IRL and how it would naturally look. I didn't want to go too fake with this image even though I do tend to like to stay towards a more Cinematic style. Natalia kept telling me to go further and further in the editing process because she said when she applies her makeup, you can't see a single blemish on her face. Well I still wanted it to be somewhat realistic so I went with Frequency Separation and didn't blur the skin. I did however use a light blend of skin tones applied over the texture layer, (High Frequency Layer) it was painted with a 10% opacity setting and the final airbrush was turned down to 20% to retain as much detail as possible while cutting some of the very minor hi lights on the skin. I shot with a 24-105 and an Alien Bees B800 Ring light with the diffusion panel and reflector. the two hair lights were bare 430EXii zoomed in to 105mm.
This was supposed to just be a test shot with my new ABR800 because Natalia was in her PJ's with no makeup on... lol. But I just got to playing in Photoshop and got hooked on this study.
***I got rid of the RingLight catch lights in her eyes because I just find them to be too over used and cliche. I think they make people look rather alien (which is great if you're going for that kind of thing)... So I actually took a picture of the moon and used it as a catch light with some warp techniques. I know that when light enters the eye, it reflects and bounces off the opposing side so I created a subtle glossy catch on the opposite side of the catch light and blah blah blah... You get the picture.
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aaaand the split screen.
This is a comp image that I did of Matt Millard. The image of matt was taken in Arkansas. The background slate was taken from down the street from my house at a car shop on Laurel Canyon BLVD in Los Angeles.
Taken in San Diego CA while I was working for Xbox at Comic Con 2014
Took some pictures at Jay Z's house last night...
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