Paint Me

Picture taken during a studio workshop.

Minimal post production applied, just a little of skin softening and

desaturation.

 

First request at all :)

Honestly, with such a subject I wonder why you would desaturate anything. I think the image would benefit from vibrant colours. I didn't really have a lot of time to work on it and I have overdone it but hopefully you will get the idea.

 

 

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, David.

I love your works, so I'm honored :)

 

You're right, vibrant colours would be better.

The fact is that I couldn't saturate the paint and keep the soft skin tone I like.

I will try on other pictures of the same shooting sessions, though.

 

Thanks again.

David makes a good point on the saturation. You have posted some nice images from the workshop. You have a good eye for this and should shoot more. I shoot at workshops that are more free form. There are a number of models and a number of sets and you just move around and make photographs that interest you. You can also book one-on-one time with the models and experiment.

I agree with David. Vibrant!! Primary colours.

I am leaning more toward desaturating the model to b&w and history brushing the colors. I gave it a very sloppy look in ps and thought it looked great. With the model desaturated, it made the desaturated colors look right. You can probably even desaturate the yellow a little more and would look great. give it a shot and let us know what you think.

Love the colors.

 

Jim Phelps

great composition, congrats !