#PHOTO GLAMOUR EFFECT UPDATE#
Will post another update when I have made some more progress, but I have a super busy next couple of weeks, so I don't know when I'll get these wrapped up.We will give you a fair value for your time and money. I like 4/5/6 the best, it's still missing that "glow" or "haze" but I think I'll have to take it into Photoshop for that. Two -100 gradients seems to be about the same as one -100 global adjustment, but that may just be because by the time you get that deep, everything is mushy and indistinguishable. 100 in the "whole-frame" gradient adjustment seems to be about the same as -70 global Clarity adjustment. 100 global Clarity, no gradient adjustments.įor the purposes of Clarity adjustment, layering many small adustments seems to give identical results as doing a single large adjustment. No global Clarity, two gradient adjustments with -100 Clarity each.Ĩ. No global Clarity, one gradient adjustment with -100 Clarity.ħ. No global Clarity, four gradient adjustments with -25 Clarity each.Ħ. No global Clarity, ten gradient adjustments with -10 Clarity each.ĥ. No global Clarity, five gradient adjustments with -10 Clarity each.Ĥ.
Two full-frame gradient filters at -20 Clarity, as described by Rimmer in post #9.ģ. Simple tweaks to Basic pane: +37 highlights, -12 Shadows, +45 Whites, -10 Clarity, +25 Vibrance, +7 Saturation, minor brush edit to bring down the hairlight highlights. Screen Shot at 12.22.22 PM by nathancarter, on FlickrĢ. For now I'm staying in Lightroom, but I'll make some more updates as I test and learn a little more. A lot of this is just an "in-progress" thread, hoping that someone else can learn from my process.
A little failing on my part due to lack of preparation. I had everything on hand but just didn't get it set up right, as I was also shooting two other styles that same night. I had some other stuff come up over the week and just didn't have as much time as I would have liked to prep and practice. Shot 18 different people (plus lots of pairs & groups) in three different styles - in addition to the Glamour Shots, I did a new set of standard beauty-style headshots for our dance troupe, and some Halloween styles promo shots for the flyer for our upcoming show, and just played around a bit since I had a lot of willing models in makeup and hair.įor the Glamour Shots, I wound up not using the lubed filter or the nylons.
Technically, they're not as good as I would have liked, but in the barely-controlled chaos I think they turned out OK. It was pretty nuts, as it was also an (adult) birthday party with lots of drinking and dancing and food and swimming. We don't really have a time limit (it's a combination photoshoot, birthday party, sleepover, etc etc) but even 15 minutes per person means it's gonna take 4+ hours to move through us all. If I have to take it into Photoshop, then I'm thinking maybe duplicating the image into a new layer, giving the new layer way too much blur (I think Gaussian only goes up to 250px? that might be enough), then setting it to Overlay (or Screen?) with a medium-low opacity.Īny other thoughts? We've got about a dozen girls and half-dozen guys. I've also read that putting a bit of stretched nylon stocking over the lens can give a similar soft-glowy effect. (although a 135mm f/2.8 would be nice, even without the soft focus, I don't need another lens right now!) I don't mind sacrificing a cheapo filter if it would make sense to smear one with a little Vaseline.
One main light with a reflector, one or two hair lights, zero to two background lights depending on the backdrop(s) we choose.Ĭanon has made a soft-focus lens, but I don't think any of the rental companies have it, and I don't want to spend $600+ to buy it. If I can do it all with a combination of camera, lens, lighting, and Lightroom, then I'll be super happy. I would prefer to do as much in-camera as possible, though I'm not averse to some post-processing. I'm pretty competent as a portrait photographer, I've got a pretty decent amount of lighting gear, all the lenses that I need, and I'm pretty sure I can pull this off - but I'm just looking for any advice, tips, dos-n-don'ts from anyone who has done this digitally before. I'm sure we'll have some of those goofy two-look composites, and maybe a "family portrait" holding the unwilling cat. We're putting together some bad backdrops as well, and collecting silly props. We're throwing a "Glamour Shots" party for a friend, with all the girls getting dressed up in denim jackets and giant feather boas and White Rain hairspray, and the guys wearing tacky sweaters and slick-parted hair and Coke-bottle glasses.
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