THE MAKING OF SUPER MODEL. Portraiture

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1 THE MAKING OF SUPER MODEL Portraiture

2 Mrs. Gilder will be photographing each of you. Why? Because, she s fast. That is why.

3 She will then place your image onto the student resource file, R Why, so that only the school can have access to this. You will download, once done, Mrs. Gilder will erase this.

4 Mrs. Gilder will officially stop talking about herself in the 3 rd person.

5 I ll use a beauty box set up for the girls and a beauty box set up with black gobos for the boys. Next you will use PS to turn yourselves into supermodels.

6 Steps towards photo-fantastyland perfection.

7 Window, layers. Have that show up. Pick channels. You want your image to stand out and can manipulate the red/green and blue. Re level each color. This will get you perfect results. But boring results. Do that first.

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10 Final Image remember to flatten image. Original to the left, new one to the right.

11 But, now, let s really play mwa ha ha. I wanted to warm up her skin tones, so moved the middle sliders all over the place. Added green.

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15 Now do overall levels.

16 End result after darkening midtones

17 But, I m not a child and have skin imperfections Oh no!

18 we can correct that too!!!

19 Shoot RAW ALWAYS Shirt a mess, hair a mess, either open or close the mouth, not in between. LOOK CLOSELY, HER MOUTH IS SLIGHTLY OPEN. ODD, VERY ODD.

20 Clothing off. See wrinkle on side. Hair okay clone out bad wind curl up top, could clone from other photo with better hair. Eyes okay. Neck strained. Odd finger nail polish, best to crop out.

21 Skin Enhancements Again, shoot RAW. Open in PS. Play with contrast and reduce clarity a touch, unless you shot with a long lens and low f stop. I shot 85mm, F 3.5 or so. 85 is okay. But not great. Should have shot 200 mm to flatten the face, reduce nose, widen and enlarge eyes.

22 RAW section Lose some detail through luminance. But don t go overboard.

23 RAW section If you didn t shoot long lens, mimic long lens. This actually makes the person look better without completely changing their features. Short lens gives a horse like appearance to all models. Don t overdo as you will get that alien like high forehead look. Which doesn t market models well.

24 Next Open Image. Recrop to rid odd edges due to changing your lens through RAW. Model portfolio size is normally 9x12 inches. Top is bulky, adds weight, arms are odd. Noting odd hair issue up top. Clone that out.

25 Bandage out imperfections. Duplicate layer in case you make a mistake. Clone out bottom part of under eye skin. But don t clone it all, otherwise you get this weird plastic look. Change opacity to 60%, yes, take it from the cheek below. Note cosmetic ads, pores under the eyes are not a reality, but are found in cosmetic ads. THESE ARE NO LONGER HUMAN. Note blue area, I didn t touch. She needs to look SOMEWHAT human. Left the moles that is her face, but bandaged out her pimples.

26 Go into layer>duplicate layer. Go into window>layers to get the layers window to show up. In layers window, change normal to overlay.

27 Keep the pointer onto the background copy, then press control I on a PC, learn how to invert this on an apple. Sorry, I have a PC.

28 Go into filter, other, high pass. Stay around 5-10 pixels, the older the person the higher the number. This is a young person, so am sticking to around 8.5

29 Okay it. Filter, Gaussian blur, and pick something between 0-5. This is inverted so the higher you go the more in focus. She s a young kid so going with 5 out of 5. Okay it. No photo for this, pretty straight forward. Next step on next page.

30 Add a layer mask. On a pc go with alt click while the arrow is on the first layer (the greyish one), you will get a black mask. Make sure in the swatches that the first one is white.

31 Pick a brush and paint over the skin. What will happen is the soft part under this will come forward. Click and paint. The black mask on the side will show you what you just painted. Then go into levels and change the levels up to bring in contrast. Image/adjustments/levels.

32 Needing to go softer? Use diffuse glow. Click onto the 2 nd swatch, see red at bottom. Choose color picker, pick the lightest part of the forehead. Go lighter even, just not porcelain.

33 Go into filters/distort/diffuse glow. Leave the levels as follows, grain, 0, you don t need grain, glow amount 1, otherwise you get all 80 s, clear amount the lower you go the more you get. A young person with skin you just fixed? Stay around 14 or 13. Older with tons of shine? Go to 9 or 10. Male? Don t bother. As for going porcelain? No. It isn t 1984 Yes, I know, eyeliner is horrific. Play in levels to look more fashion oriented.

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35 Hair too dark after levels? Go into image, adjustments, highlights and shadows to correct that.

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37 Fashion Photography It s 1.5 hours of hair and makeup. It s 30 minutes of lighting based on face shape. No cheekbones? Butterfly lighting. Bad skin? Flat lighting. Great skin and cheekbones? Rembrandt for the NY market, for Canada? Flattish lighting. Then, 1-2 hours of photoshop minimum. Then darken the results in levels to make it appear that hey, this is what the person looks like. Ummm no, I don t think so

38 NY VS. Canada Skin tones. Guess which is which?

39 CHANGE YOURSELF TO B/W GO INTO IMAGE/ADJUSTMENTS/B -W AND PLAY WITH EACH ARROW TO GET THE EFFECT YOU ARE WANTING.

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41 Then redid levels to look like fashion not beauty fashion. Fashion is darker and has more contrast

42 Rubrics A B C D Detail in the blacks and whites. Skin softening done well, looks somewhat natural. Most detail found in the blacks and whites. Skin softening done well, looks somewhat natural. Some detail missing, levels overdone or not done enough. Skin softening done doesn t look as natural. Overdone or underdone. Excellent tonal range. Great tonal range. Okay tonal range. Image has excellent contrast. Final image quality looks like something one would see in a NY Model agency. Imperfections gone and not obvious. Image has good contrast. Final image quality looks like something one would see in a magazine. Imperfections gone some help needed to Image has okay contrast. Final image quality is good. Imperfections needed a lot of Not done.

43 Keep it as you will become rockstars with cd covers next