How can i correct this "effect" and avoid it in the future?

Hi folks,

I did a shoot for a friend and whilst i had a blast experimenting i noticed a undesired effect on a few of the pics

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Looks like you just need to pay more attention to your lighting ratios. Adding a little more light to fill that shadow a bit more would sort you out. A reflector would do nicely, or another light (set lower in power to your main light).

Generally, if one wants to get smooth lighting for a closeup like this, place the light above the camera and then use a reflector under the camera to reflect up filling the shadow under the nose.

Care has to be taken that the light does not end up looking spooky.

For this image, try using Lightroom shadow slider to lighten the right side of the model's face.

Or leave it like it is, I like it.

this is what i did to it...

yay? nay?

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Not sure how you feel about someone doing adjustments to your image(s) and then posting them so I'll just tell you what I did.

Took your image into Lightroom 4.2 and worked with the basic develop panel. Using those sliders its possible to get the the look you are interested in without too much trouble.

dmward wrote in post #15240601
Not sure how you feel about someone doing adjustments to your image(s) and then posting them so I'll just tell you what I did.

Took your image into Lightroom 4.2 and worked with the basic develop panel. Using those sliders its possible to get the the look you are interested in without too much trouble.

no its fine i dont mind seeing the result if at all possible!

imranali wrote in post #15244781
no its fine i dont mind seeing the result if at all possible!

Go to your user profile and turn on "IMAGE EDITING OK"!

the right cheek is over exposed and you can need color correction, your white balance is way off and yellow is bleeding off on the skin. buy a lightmeter it really is a great tool for studio lighting

I'd feather the SB more across her face.

Here is your file with the adjustments I made in Lightroom develop module.

dmward wrote in post #15249486
Here is your file with the adjustments I made in Lightroom develop module.

The problem now is color artifacts where the shadow used to be, it's not that easy to lift shadows unless you have the raw file, because the jpeg compression threw out the color and detail information in the shadow. If you upload the raw I might take a crack at it for kicks.

It's certainly something one could even out in post, but you may want to try a lightmeter out, it definitely helped me get into the groove of using flash.

Kolor-Pikker wrote in post #15275438
The problem now is color artifacts where the shadow used to be, it's not that easy to lift shadows unless you have the raw file, because the jpeg compression threw out the color and detail information in the shadow. If you upload the raw I might take a crack at it for kicks.

It's certainly something one could even out in post, but you may want to try a lightmeter out, it definitely helped me get into the groove of using flash.

There may have been some color tweaking that could have been done in the HSL panel, but yes, this really needs to be done on a raw file with all the data available from the camera.

Getting the lighting right when shooting certainly is the preferred approach.
For what the OP is looking for I'd probably start with a large source right above the camera.