Fantasy Maternity
In three parts: watch the three videos below. This client wanted something really special for the wall of her home, but she was 35 weeks pregnant and not up to location shoots or anything strenuous…....
creative retouching
Maternity “Ringmaster” – part 1
An unusual maternity shoot… Raw conversion, shaping the body, colour grading, skin retouch and preparation for part 2, when I’ll add a circular skirt in photoshop…...
Fine art nude – natural light
Natural light. Most fine art nudes are black and white; I wanted to keep the complementary colours and create a textured, artistic, painted picture, with a sculptured, statue-like figure. This is a work in progress....
Studio Maternity
One light, studio maternity. Taking a simple mid-grey seamless paper backdrop and creating something artistic. This edit involved skin work, Lightroom raw adjustments, hair retouching, colour grading and textures....
Lucia ballerina – pink skirt
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…...
Matilde – Fine Art child
I got carried away having fun with this one! I wanted to create a painted, fine art look, so did a lot of modifications, especially on the hair, which has a lot of hand-painted parts…....
Guest Edit – harsh sunlight
Member Saloua challenged me to edit a shot she took in Paris, in harsh sunlight. As the highlights were not blown out and the shot was in focus, I took on the challenge and created…...