I went to town on this one, as the dancer loves the creative, fantasy style. Works involves background clean-up, liquify, cloning, adding hair and skirt, removing leg stubble, dodging and burning, hair retouching, colour grading…...
I wanted this natural light shot to look celestial and dreamy. I cleaned up the background, manipulated the dress, faffed around a lot deciding whether or not to do a headswap (I didn’t), and did…...
Lasting just over 1 hour, this retouch and black and white conversion includes frequency separation for difficult (pigmented) skin, reducing clothing creases, skin, hair retouching, dodge and burn, and finally conversion to black and white…...
This is a fairly simple 50 minute edit of this lovely dancer. Work includes cleaning up the background, compositing the skirt for movement from another photo, dodge ad burn to add contrast and sculpt, and…...