Alessia
A straightforward skin retouch with dodge and burn and colour grade. And some hair volume added 🙂...
Live Edits
Vintage black & white
It’s lovely in colour, but there was something about black and white for model and musician Catherine that suited her classic features. Here I did background cleanup, retouch using frequency separation and curves to dodge…...
Dancer jump part 2
This shot was nearly perfect in-camera, but I wanted to do a face swap and add some wow for print competition. This is part 2....
Beauty retouch with difficult lighting
The client (commercial) chose a shot that has less than perfect lighting for what I was trying to achieve – however it was what she wanted for the purposes of the shoot. This is a…...
Dancer jump – part 1
This shot was nearly perfect in-camera, but I wanted to do a face swap and add some wow for print competition. This is part 1....
Guest edit – Boudoir in black and white
This week’s edit is courtesy of Ashley Canavan, who provided the raw files for this session. Very little was needed to be retouched to this lovely subject but I still went through my process on…...
Ellie in the studio
You know the saying “the cobbler’s son has no shoes”? Well, today I decided enough was enough: I grabbed my daughter for half an hour and took her to the studio, with the intention of…...
Men’s fitness
Shot at Milan’s Cross Studios during The Retreat in October 2018. While the girls were getting make-up and styled, we took portraits and fitness shots with Jack. As a dedicated gym buff, I knew Jack…...
Editorial Boudoir
From a shoot in a luxury boutique hotel built at the turn of the last century on the shores of Lake Garda during our last “Retreat”. Natalia needs no retouching, but I still wanted to…...
Ballerina plie’
In the end I decided to do without the dress flip, but I have left it in the video for educational purposes! This gorgeous, statuesque dancer works for the St Petersburg ballet in Russia. She…...