thomas_doering

@all

Thanks so far for your answers. Nevertheless, more hints are welcome, of course.

@David:

Of course I can tell you.

The lightset is very simple: I used one single striplight on the right side and a piece of styrofoam on the left side, about 1m away from the model. It is just for giving a little (!) bit light to the back of the model.

For B/W conversion I used the plugin "Convert to B&W" (www.theimagingfactory.com). The pre filter color was set to 'green' and I pulled the sliders for 'exposure' and 'multigrade' a little bit to the right. That's all.

The only condition for the glow on the skin is that the model's skin (especially the legs) must be thoroughly shaved.

I hope this answers your questions. If not, feel free to ask again!

Greetings,

Thomas

*g

Thanks for that really quick help. Of course this could be a solution.

But even when using new background paper a little carelessness can cause a spot, a dot or what else.

As retouching this with Photoshop on WHITE background is possible, I do believe that it is also possible on BLACK background. But how?

When I see what some photo-mounting specialists can do with Photoshop, there must be a way to remove the spots electronically.

Hello,

I take my photos in a studio, where also some other photographers work.

For reasons of economy the paper background of the studio cannot be swapped as

often as it should. So the background often is dirty and shows spots,

footprints etc.

On white background retouching these spots is easy, using the healing brush and

patch tools, Gaussian blur and so on.

But on black background I am still not satisfied with the results and the

background still looks dirty.

Does anyone know how to make it better?

Thanks in advance,

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