Dark Conceptual Portraits

Overview

“Skin retouching is necessary depending on the type of photo we have taken, especially framing is our guide. For general plans in which we want the location and costumes to look, it is usually not necessary to have a thorough skin touch-up since the size of the face is very small. However, in medium and close-ups it is highly recommended to make a skin touch-up by means of the frequency separation technique and dodge and burn . In this lesson I will show you my method to do it. ”

In this video lesson Eduardo Gómez (Alter Imago) addresses the topic: Skin retouching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dark Conceptual Portraits. Carry out a somber-looking photoshoot from concept to editing.

Partial transcription of the video

“SKIN REMOVAL, frequency separation and dodge burn In many photographic genres, for example "fashion", "beauty", In editorial photography, skin retouching is essential to enhance the beauty of our character. In "dark beauty", you don't always look for characters that are beautiful, there are also very gloomy and mysterious characters They do not require this special treatment. But as you realized in our shooting lesson, we took pictures of the character in his facet as a very beautiful witch which later became a horrible character. So, this picture we took of a more closed frame, more focusi...”

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Course summary for: Dark Conceptual Portraits

• Level: Beginner
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• 3435 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (2h 43m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Areas

  Fine-Art Photography, Photographic Lighting, Photography, Portrait Photography