Young male portrait
Simple, three light strobe for a young male. Retouching involved some cloning on the high frequency layer, dodge and burn with curves, detail pulled out with a high pass filter and final colour grade in…...
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Mirtel: black and white
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…...
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…....
Catherine – Hair
This hour long edit covers skin using frequency separation (maintaining a natural look), dodge and burn, pulling out shadow detail, and colour grading in Photoshop and Lightroom using my custom profiles....
Guest edit – male musician
This raw file was provided by a subscriber, who wanted a gritty look for a male bass player. I adjusted the composition, cleaned up the background, pulled out detail, created a 3d look using dodge…...
Difficult Skin
This is an intensive look at my favourite techniques to tackle difficult skin, with no blurring or plastic skin smoothing filters. An in-depth exploration of frequency separation, using some recent tricks I stumbled upon, and…...