pinup / varga shoot - semi-nsfw

[Mike Panic]

http://www.mikepanic.com/photos/albums/amanda_pinup_varga_shoot_april_24_2005/aaa.jpg

key light into silver umbrella, 20degree grid on her hair, 30 degree grid on background

10d
24-70L

this is virtually untouched from raw... i didnt edit anything raw, saturated some of the tiff file in ps, made very slight level adjustments and healed out a shadow on the left of her face from her nose... i also used a fred miranda action called iso x pro - its to help reduce noise in photos but ive found it to work really well at smoothing skin and giving that great vogue glamor plastik look to models

thoughts?

[Croasdail]

personally not really my style so take my comments for what they are worth.... I think if it were softend it little bit it would perhaps give it more of that 50's remantic look and smooth out some of the blotchieness of her skin... tatoo also doesn't really help. Technically the colors are great and vibrante... and lighting seems to be very smooth though the hot spot on her could be distracting.. thanks for sharing though...

[Mike Panic]

thanks for the honest feedback - im on my way to the studio now for a shoot w/ anothe rmodel, when i get home ill post before and after crops of this models face in this shot so you can see how much it already has been smoothed