DonPilou Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Good morning everyone!Finally, the sun is back in Paris, and UV photography with it! This time I have use a reflector to light on the eyes of my model, who has a lot of freckles! Concerning the processing, I was looking for burning effect on the skin, so a warmer colour using channel inversion (same that the one in infrared photography) after a white balance made on the white of the eyes.Gear : Canon 6D full-spectrum + Nikon 50 E 1.8 + LUV U2 filterExif : 50mm, F/2.8, 400iso, 1/15sWaiting for your feelings Link to comment
OlDoinyo Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 C'est bon! That amount of "freckling" is quite common for persons of fair complexion. A few years ago, there was a fad among dermatologists who used such photos as this as purported evidence of hidden skin damage. I think that was debunked; one hears less about it these days. But it did get some people into UV photography. Link to comment
Andy Perrin Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I love it! I like the pose there, and the specular reflection on her eyes. ("The specular reflection on her eyes" is the best I can do, but it ain't Willie's Sonnet 130.) Link to comment
Andrea B. Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I love the pose. Very cool. And a lovely model for UV work. Elegant and with UV freckles. "-) The channel inversion & white balance which you used seem to have given a sepia-tone look to the photograph. This is quite nice I think and seems to work well for this photo in particular. I think I might open up the shadows to show more of the facial detail. Especially if you are doing portraiture rather than straight documentation. There is a lot of detail in those shadows, so it might be interesting to reveal that. What do you think?[The photographer's artistic vision always takes precedence over any editing suggestion like I just made. :D ] Link to comment
DonPilou Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 Thank you all for your comments. Indeed Andrea, in this project of portraits there will be two types of poses : a simple pose of the model receiving the sun as a source of warmest (that explains the warm tones), with the eyes closed, and a second pose where the model is looking at the camera and is hiding her eyes from the sun. For this pose I'm looking for a dark band where the eyes are reflecting the light of a reflector. So here is the more classical pose, with the same EXIF data : Link to comment
Cadmium Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Yes, these are great shots! Quite nice background also. Link to comment
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