What is the edit called and how do they do it?

What would you call this kind of edit? How would you do it? Would be fine to do once. Thanks!

https://www.flickr.com …/in/photostream​/lightbox/

Have you asked the photographer. Really interesting photo, BTW.

Bassat wrote in post #17957347
Have you asked the photographer. Really interesting photo, BTW.

I wrote her and hope she is willing to share. I think it is a neat edit. It is very over the top, but something different and fun.

there is nothing special about the edit, just a very unique subject with great facial features and eyes. you can see the lighting used from the eyes. the dof of field is wide enough to get the face in focus but ears are out of focus.

i shot a similar pics of my kids. 50mm, f1.8. the pic you linked was stopped down more, probably f4 or so.

i'd say there's a good amount of photoshop there as well though...the freckles are fake...it looks like she's pretty good at providing tutorials/actions for photoshop here though:
https://bellevue-avenue.com/

may be worth a purchase if this is something you can use over and over again...definitely is what makes the image pop

mike_311 wrote in post #17958366
there is nothing special about the edit, just a very unique subject with great facial features and eyes. you can see the lighting used from the eyes. the dof of field is wide enough to get the face in focus but ears are out of focus.

I'm having a hard time decoding the lighting. It looks like the key light is in front of the subject, and just a touch to the left, and elevated a foot or so above her (?) head. There appears to be a light used on the left side of the subject's face, as I can see highlights on the side of the face and the ear. I don't think that is the key light that is doing that. The shadows under the nose don't look right to me, based on the position of the key light. Based on the lack of shadows under the nose, I almost think a kicker was used in front of the subject. But, the shadows on the neck and along the jawline are too pronounced for a kicker/reflector to have been used. Aren't they?

How do you decipher the lighting?

mamaof2 wrote in post #17957323
What would you call this kind of edit? How would you do it? Would be fine to do once. Thanks!

https://www.flickr.com …/in/photostream​/lightbox/

I think it is a gorgeous photograph, and a great edit. To me, it looks like there has been a lot of work on the eyes and skin. The eyes appear to have been sharpened and most likely dodged and burned to make them pop. The really smooth skin can be done using a noise removal program. "Dfine" from the "Nik Collection" (now free . . . https://www.google.com​/nikcollection/product​s/dfine/) has a skin smoothing/NR feature that works quite well. I sometimes use it on kids who have mild rosacea.

I could be wrong, but the rosy cheeks do not look natural to me. I suspect this is either makeup or done in post. I'm also on the fence about the freckles. I think that if makeup was used the freckles wouldn't be as pronounced as they are. I'm wondering if a freckle brush was used in post.

Seems simple to me. What I see is:

- downward diffused lighting
- possibly gradient map set to black and white, with the layer set on either overlay or software blend. Adjust opacity
- coloring down in the eyes. Any basic youtube video can show you that
- a young model with some skin of color.

It's reminiscent of that Jill Goldberg look (ugh) that was quite the rage for a while. The lighting is just a beauty dish at the 0-45 (or a bit lower, say 0-30) position, no fill –or very minimal. There's another light(s) for the background, maybe with a gel in case the paper's not coloured already.