Hello everyone in Photography Lover community. I hope you guys are doing great.
Today I am going to share another recent studio photoshoot for a client. This client was suppose to be my friend's client, but my friend is still out of town for holiday. So he passed this client to me.
This client contacted me for a portraiture for his portfolio update. He wanted to do only a half body shoot in studio. After we had some discussion and agree on the terms and conditioned mention, we proceed with the plan.
This was the studio for the photoshoot and those was the lighting setup that I made for the photoshoot session.
Two soft box was aimed to the white wall and one soft box as the main light. The main light was changed from left to right several time for getting some dramatic lighting for a portrait.
The green artificial grass was only for feet comforter.
So before we started the photoshoot session. The client had requested me to do a specific portrait for him. When I asked him what kind of photo. He shows me a portrait of his late father. He want me to do a similar portrait as his late father.
I agree after I analyzed the photo. It was a classic headshot portrait.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
This was the second time this photo was edited, as the first round of photo being processed with my regular workflow which is more into common pageant photo editing was not into his taste and he just want a natural retouching. At first I was confused, I thought he wanted me to retouch his photo as he was wearing makeup. I was wrong.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
He wanted to keep all the details on his face and only the blemished was requested to be removed. So I had to changed back to my 'old' way of retouching a portrait which is only using 'dodge and burn' technique. The drawback of this technique is only time consuming, but the result will be as naturel as you can see it. Keeping all the details form the photos and keeping some imperfections to make the photos more natural.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
During my time working on all the selected photo I remember back why I used to do the 'dodge and burn' technique in the first place. I am a self taught photographer and photo retoucher. I cant afford any of the Online Tutorial and attending a workshop is just very hard during my learning time.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
My only way to learn and get all this camera technique and skill was the internet and magazine. During my learning process I was really fascinated to the 'dodge and burn' technique that I found in Youtube. That was the time I developed the 'dodge and burn' technique into my photo retouching workflows.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
As time passed by, I had regularly involved in the beauty pageant and fashion industry I had changed my photo retouching technique to the 'Standard' beauty pageant and fashion workflow. I learned so many shortcut so that I am able to develop a good photo in a shorter time and with much more amount of photos from before.
But this was not satisfying for me. I feel that the photo can be better if I did take more time to do the retouching part. But still I continue on using this workflow until now.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f8 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
This person, the client above. He really had me realized that I had this one awesome technique that I had forgotten. I really appreciated him, he reminds me that this 'dodge and burn' technique can be the 'greatest' technique if being used right.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f9 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
This pinup photo was done by using the current technique that I regularly use, frequency separation technique. As you can see it had a lot of different from the other photo above. You can do a fine art photo using this technique but for Editorial, this technique is a no go.
EXIF : ISO - 200 | f9 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
This is what he requested me, the classic portrait of his late father.
EXIF (Left) : ISO - 200 | f9 | 1/100 | 85mm | 0 step Exposure Bias
This is the final image that I already process only by using the 'dodge and burn' technique. And that is all from me today. Until we meet again next time. Thank you for visiting and I hope you can give some positive comments of feedback for this post.
Have a great day and stay safe everyone.
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| Camera | Sony A7iii | 85mm f1.8 |
| Editing Software | Adobe Photoshop CC |