Shooting glamour doesn’t really give me a lot of opportunities to get overly creative in Photoshop, and being such an avid Photoshop user I have started looking for more creative outlets, hence this image above. You may remember Ally Hayward above from a prior blog post with some very hot glamour images we took together in Sydney. See the photos HERE. We teamed up a second time and experimented with a little Angelina Jolie styled action.
This photo was taken with 2 strobes firing off an Elinchrom Ranger RX Speed AS kit. To the left of camera just in front of Ally was an Elinchrom 53″ Octa, and I placed a bare strobe behind her to the right. Shot on my 5DMKII with a 70-200mm IS 2.8 L series lens.
I gave Ally a nice retouch on the skin but kept as much texture and enhanced the details as best I could. I desaturated the photo except for a tiny bit of purple in her hair which I saturated. The ray of light is purely thanks to a little photoshop trick I learnt from Calvin Hollywood. Then a bit of dodging and burning as well as applying a texture to her surroundings and I was done in Photoshop. In lightroom I then applied a split tone effect. I applied a blue hue to the shadows and a yellow tone to the highlights but it was very subtle. A gentle vignette finished off the image.
Stay tuned for more images in this series!
Brodie this looks amazing! Great photoshop skills!
Brodie this looks amazing! Great photoshop skills!
Looks fantastic Brodie!! Well done! : )
Great photo!
Do you have a specific link to Calvin’s tutorial that explains how to make the ray of light? I just spent an hour going through the link to his website that you provided but could not find it.
Thanks!
Sorry Doug I don’t have a link because Calvin showed me in person. It might be on his DVD but I cant be sure. I am running photoshop tutorials starting in January on the blog so how about I add this to the list for you! I’ll push it towards the beginning as well.
That would be awesome, I will follow your blog with great interest! Thanks again!