Lessons
Class Introduction
05:49 2Analyzing the Face
14:48 3Light and Skin
10:34 4Science of Light
10:09 5Direction of Light
14:39 6Fill Light
12:19 7Demo and Shoot: Analyzing the Face
07:10 8Demo and Shoot: Distance of Light
19:21Demo and Shoot: Distance from Subject
09:17 10Round Face Considerations
09:55 11Shoot: Round Face
13:23 12Double Chin Considerations
06:51 13Shoot: Double Chin
07:07 14Shoot: Big Forehead
05:17 15Big Forehead Considerations
06:40 16Pronounced Nose Considerations
03:56 17Shoot: Pronounced Nose Considerations
06:23 18Uneven Features Considerations
02:03 19Shoot: Uneven Features
01:20 20Shoot: Large or Small Chin
09:12 21Pronounced Wrinkles Considerations
04:08 22Shoot: Pronounced Wrinkles
12:23 23Shoot: Uneven Skin
06:33 24Oily Skin Considerations
03:17 25Shoot: Oily Skin
04:41 26No Curves Considerations
05:18 27Shoot: No Curves
10:07 28Full Figured Subject Considerations
10:09 29Shoot: Full Figured Subject
04:29 30Shoot: Glasses
09:04 31Balding Considerations
02:27 32Shoot: Balding
07:10 33Retouching: Wrinkles
15:27 34Retouching: Uneven Skin
04:36 35Retouching: Brighten Face & Whiten Teeth
05:06 36Retouching: Large Forehead
04:24 37Retouching: Round Face
07:02 38Retouching: Oily Skin
02:53 39Retouching: Full Figured Subject
13:06Lesson Info
Retouching: Oily Skin
I told you that definitely use a larger light source, bring it in closer, spread out the highlight, make the specular highlights not so bright. But let's say that you were shooting at a wedding, and it didn't happen. You were shooting with a flash-on camera, and people were sweating, and you know how it is. So. So there's some things I can do in post to help me out with this. And it's some of the things we've talked about already, I just wanna show you another application of it. One of the things we can do is I already talked about. when we're filling in the wrinkles on the subject's face, I talked about using a lighten blend mode to fill in those shadows. But what happens if there's highlights I wanna get rid of? That's the opposite. So what we're gonna do is this time when I clone over, instead of using the lighten blend mode, we are gonna change the blend mode to darken. You wanna darken a highlight, change the blend mode to darken. For this particular photo, I did try it a bit, it ...
kinda works. Like, it's not fantastic, but it's really good, I find, for those bright highlights in the center of someone's nose, particularly the people with the more pronounced noses. It just gets a little bit bright. 'Cause what you can do is just tone it down just a little. You don't need to get rid of it completely. So in her instance, I can clone, and just like, not get rid of the highlight, but it made it a lot better. But it didn't give me that haze where it just looks like I blurred over it. So you can try that, it's one thing I would try. So changing your blend mode on your clone stamp to darken. So there is the before, after. Helps a bit. The other thing you can do, and I'm gonna delete that real quick to give you another option, one of the other things that I have found is one of the reasons that these highlights are objectionable is because they're pure white. It draws a lot of attention to them, 'cause everything else has a tone, and then those are specular, so specular's a reflection of the light, has no color tonality to it. So if I create a new layer, and I hold my option key, on the brush I can select that skin tone, and then I can paint that skin tone in over the top of it. Right now, I'm not in any blend mode. I just painted over the top, but I can back off the opacity so there's just a little bit of color, it's a lot better. It's the problem that it's pure white that really draws my attention. So it's some combination of those, I think helps quite a bit to tone down shiny skin.
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Ratings and Reviews
Sharma Shari
This class was amazing! It was great seeing a demo class with real people. As a wedding photographer that specializes in offbeat/non traditional couples, it is always good to see how I can enhance all my clients beautiful features, and make them feel their best and confident when I am taking their photos!
a Creativelive Student
I was so excited to get the chance to learn from Lindsay live, and this course did not disappoint! The techniques she shared were insightful and straightforward. I felt like seeing them on different subjects throughout the day really helped to cement the concepts and grow my photography tools to bring out the best in those I'm photographing. I'm not a studio photographer, but the ideas apply in natural light as well.
maria manolaros
Great class! Impressive amount of tips on posing, lighting and photoshop techniques , a real good no nonsense approach by superb teacher. Numerous amounts of thumbs ups
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