Post Processing C & C Model on White Seamless

I wanted some comments and critiques mostly on my post processing from this shoot. This is the first image I started with but I shot a whole clothing line. I want to get my Post work looking good before I tackle the whole gig so I don't have to go back and tweak the whole set multiple times.

I was shooting on white cloth backdrop lit up with two soft boxes, the model stood on a small white laminate flooring board and an alienate with plm as a main. In post I had to lighten up the white bc some wrinkles where still slightly visible and clone out the bottom corners where floor was visible.

Post work looks fine to me. The sheer skirt retains all its details, so I'd count this as a success.

Ideally, you'll adjust the actual lighting so you don't have to do ANY cleaning of the background in post. A little more light on the background, and a little more distance from the subject to the background so the (additional) reflected light doesn't cause trouble with white or sheer clothing pieces.

You MIGHT be able to use some black flags or gobos to give more definition to the edges of the white and sheer articles, but I'm not good enough to say exactly how. Like using black flags to get a dark defining edge on a glass bottle...

Yea see the problem was I only have 1 alienbee so that was my main on the lowest power. It exposed for f8 at 200iso so I hadto use 2 speedlights for background. I had to have them on 1/2 power each to get the background almost white. In the interest of keeping the shoot moving I desides not to go full power on both flashes. If I had 3 alien bees I would have got that sucker white white

Have you considered using the AB to light the background and the strobes to light the model?

Well my biggest modifier is for my AB so I wanted to use that for my main. What I should have done was fire bare flash at a lower power into the background.


One time in a pinch when my AB was being hit or miss in the middle of a shoot I grabbed a speedlight and aimed it into the ABs PLM to light a model. I was pretty chuffed with myself to think of it on the fly and the model didnt even notice I was having trouble with my AB.

I use two bare Speedlights to blow out white paper. I don't know how well it would work on cloth.

It probably would've worked well. I was worried about light bouncing all around so I stuck with the soft boxes (they were actually strip banks) pointed at the background for a little more direction.

This looks fine to me. I ALWAYS find myself lightening up the white sweep in post, no matter how I try to light it. But usually my subject isn't wearing anything sheer, which makes life easier.