Yuri Pautov
Dec-06-2005, 12:57 AM
Dear friends!
I was asked a lot of times to show some of my secrets.
Actually, I have no secrets…
But maybe this workflow of mine will be interesting (I’ll consider your replies so…) to some of you…
Not sure this is a right place for posting, but hope Andy will fix it...
Model choosing… This young lady works in a photo shop where I print my photos.
Must say that a lot of those whom I photographed doesn’t really look attractive ‘in life’… and they say that they are not photogenic at all… and they are sure they are not… Some of them has some problems with skin, face skin (Who of us does not?).
But… I think I can’t explain this to you, but I ‘see’ the future photo. You may call it ‘Freezing look’ of mine…
Still image is just another thing…
So, ‘model’ say ‘yes’, but she has only 15 min :- )
…
Yes, of course the background is more then a half here. Usually I’m searching for proper backgrounds beforehand and then only ‘take’ my model there…
Legs are moved apart (steady pose with stable ‘foundation’ so to say… Figure forms triangle). Face turned to light side.
Indifferent emotions on the face…(I mean I ask her to ‘say nothing’…. Usually they begin to think – that’s what I need…)
This horizontal line at ‘golden section’ is very important…
Just as placing model in a ‘golden section’ too…
I focus on a model and then turn camera a bit to right…
Leaving much more ‘space’ in the direction of her look is important too…
Original (Edited)
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3255.jpg
In PS
Now (after some time of experience) I edit my Original photos and save them at maximum quality with letter ‘e’ at the end… They can be used for web and prints later…
1 Edited photo taken.
2 Additional cleaning of face skin with healing brush at 300 % enlargement.
3 Resized to 800x600
4 Copy layer
5 Filter-> Sharpen-> Unsharped mask 67/ 0.4/0
6 Copy layer
7 Image-> Adjustment-> Shadow/Highlight [50/40/30 0/50/30 +20/0 0.01 /0.01]
8 Virtual photographer (www.optikvervelabs.com free download plugins for PS)
Load -> bronzed.vph with correction of variable parameters… (as you like)
9 ‘Harry Behret’s method’: copy layer/ ‘Multiply’ blending mode / Blur-> Gaussian blur (3.0)
10 Set opacity of this layer to 29%
11 New layer
12 Rectangular Marquee / Invert (Ctrl+I)
13 Select -> Feather (10-15)
14 Fill with black 2-3 times
15 Put you ©
16 Ctrl+E
17 Save for web: JPEG/High/ Quality 65 /Blur 0 / Progressive
Result
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3254.jpg
Sorry for my English,
Questions?
Spasibo,
Yuri
I was asked a lot of times to show some of my secrets.
Actually, I have no secrets…
But maybe this workflow of mine will be interesting (I’ll consider your replies so…) to some of you…
Not sure this is a right place for posting, but hope Andy will fix it...
Model choosing… This young lady works in a photo shop where I print my photos.
Must say that a lot of those whom I photographed doesn’t really look attractive ‘in life’… and they say that they are not photogenic at all… and they are sure they are not… Some of them has some problems with skin, face skin (Who of us does not?).
But… I think I can’t explain this to you, but I ‘see’ the future photo. You may call it ‘Freezing look’ of mine…
Still image is just another thing…
So, ‘model’ say ‘yes’, but she has only 15 min :- )
…
Yes, of course the background is more then a half here. Usually I’m searching for proper backgrounds beforehand and then only ‘take’ my model there…
Legs are moved apart (steady pose with stable ‘foundation’ so to say… Figure forms triangle). Face turned to light side.
Indifferent emotions on the face…(I mean I ask her to ‘say nothing’…. Usually they begin to think – that’s what I need…)
This horizontal line at ‘golden section’ is very important…
Just as placing model in a ‘golden section’ too…
I focus on a model and then turn camera a bit to right…
Leaving much more ‘space’ in the direction of her look is important too…
Original (Edited)
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3255.jpg
In PS
Now (after some time of experience) I edit my Original photos and save them at maximum quality with letter ‘e’ at the end… They can be used for web and prints later…
1 Edited photo taken.
2 Additional cleaning of face skin with healing brush at 300 % enlargement.
3 Resized to 800x600
4 Copy layer
5 Filter-> Sharpen-> Unsharped mask 67/ 0.4/0
6 Copy layer
7 Image-> Adjustment-> Shadow/Highlight [50/40/30 0/50/30 +20/0 0.01 /0.01]
8 Virtual photographer (www.optikvervelabs.com free download plugins for PS)
Load -> bronzed.vph with correction of variable parameters… (as you like)
9 ‘Harry Behret’s method’: copy layer/ ‘Multiply’ blending mode / Blur-> Gaussian blur (3.0)
10 Set opacity of this layer to 29%
11 New layer
12 Rectangular Marquee / Invert (Ctrl+I)
13 Select -> Feather (10-15)
14 Fill with black 2-3 times
15 Put you ©
16 Ctrl+E
17 Save for web: JPEG/High/ Quality 65 /Blur 0 / Progressive
Result
http://pautov.viplast.ru/images/gallery/3254.jpg
Sorry for my English,
Questions?
Spasibo,
Yuri