Uncategorized – Learning Portrait Photography

Getting Rid of SKIN SHINE

This is the one thing I want to do, that I can’t really do in Lightroom. So this is how to do it Photoshop by “painting” over the skin with correct colour flesh create a layer and call it skin texture / shine / somthing select the brush tool set it to opacity around 50%Continue reading “Getting Rid of SKIN SHINE”

Quick Lightroom Face Edit

To break it down what I do Remove spots – using the SPOT toot and HEAL – with Opacity set to 100% so the spot is completely taken out and feather around 80 (although could be lower down to 50%) and the size realtive to the size of the spots (usually 10 – 20). 2.Continue reading “Quick Lightroom Face Edit”

First Try Touching Up

Portrait photography and editing or doing digital touch ups is a funny one. Obviously at one end you have super specialists who touch up skin in highly technial ways to give air brushed cover looks. And then you have people who believe you shouldn’t change anything – the portrait is an accurate capture of someoneContinue reading “First Try Touching Up”

Quantity over Quality: Why I am pledging to do 40 portrait shoots

“I will take care of the quantity. The Great Creator will take care of the quality.” — The Artist’s Way During 2020’s first lockdown, I did The Artist Way, a 3-month course (daily writing, weekly check-ins) remotely with a group of amazing people I mostly hadn’t met before, curated by Nikhil Shah. One of Julia Cameron’s foundingContinue reading “Quantity over Quality: Why I am pledging to do 40 portrait shoots”