A little while ago I did a shoot with my good friend Leigh who wanted to do a shoot together. We roped in our mutual friend, Priya (who with her sister were my Water Bearers) who did a fantastic job on the outfit as well as the hair and makeup styling.
We wanted to tell the story of a wood nymph who is obsessed with fashion, who sneaks out and steals purses, boots, and shoes for her collection.
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I’ve received a lot of questions lately about my post-processing on this series of photos. Specifically how did I get that skin tone? Here’s my process.
This is pretty long-overdue, and I apologize. I wanted to show you guys how I got that cool effect on Daniel’s fashion shoot. Here’s my RAW, straight out of the camera photo brought in to lightroom.
As you can see, I specifically lit the scene with this post-processing technique in mind. If you take any old-photo and go through these steps you’ll get something stylistically the same, but it won’t have the same impact as something designed to be made this way. I did this by split-lighting my subject with hard lights that had no modifiers to soften the light. In this case two speedlight flashes at 3 and 9 o’clock to my subject.
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Last weekend I went out to do a fashion shoot with Daniel (aka Midas iWrite) (MM#1564051). We had a great time. I wanted to get a very masculine, harsh look to the series, and I think we achieved that very well.
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Hello again! I’ve receive a lot of very positive feedback about my photo The Witch, and a lot of people asking about the post-processing techniques I used, especially for the background, so I thought I’d let ya’all in on the secret 
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