Comments on: Model: Jasmine Worth

By: Darkman

Darkman — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:57:32 +0000

Hi Nancy, the soft look is sometimes a very shallow DOF(Depth of Field). I NEVER do a soft focus anything in post production. Honestly sometimes my things come out as mistakes and that’s how I process it. I shoot my shots and I sometimes do some heavy retouching but ONLY to the skin and/or hair. I remove blemishes, dark circles from under eyes, stray hairs, shadows from the face, but Never a soft focus. If anything just a shallow DOF. That’s it. I try to have my stuff as Organic as possible, meaning not much post processing other than retouching unsightly blemishes.
Thank you for the comment!!!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:15:04 +0000

I absolutely love your work. I am a photographer in Portland, Oregon and am looking into delving into this type of photography. I wanted to know if you use a soft lense, soft lense filter or do you get the soft look (especially with Jasmine Worth) in post-production editing?

Thanks for your info!

Nancy

By: Andrew Rodgers

Andrew Rodgers — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:39:48 +0000

Unless you have a camera I don’t know about, you do convert to B&W, just using the curves built into your camera I always forget to think about things like styling to achieve the goals I want with a camera… It’s neat to work with fashion photographers, that use a box of MAC just like I use my favorite lens… Again, I love your work!

Andrew

By: Darkman

Darkman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:15:58 +0000

Hi Andrew, of course I don’t take it into consideration. This is the year 2009, why would I? I mean I could but I don’t. Ortho didn’t take in blue spectrum of light and made lips dark and eyes pale. Hurrell had bought a stock of ortho film and shot tons of it. Then when he was about to run out he had to change to Pan, and he liked that even better he said, as it gave the skin tones a “creamy rather than burnished” look, due to the fuller range of color spectrum it “saw”. I’m happy with the way the images look now. If I really want to do a harsh looking old 1930′s or “Vampy” look, I will use a dark red lipstick on the subject and some red tone makeup to make it look darker like ortho film and then dodge the pupils a bit to finish the look off. I shoot both film and digitally. When shooting Digital I shoot in black and white, I don’t convert color to black and white. It’s interesting when converting my site over to this new site and looking at my archives, I se alot of things I would change now and where I would add a light or a fill here or there. Good learning experience going back over old images when deciding which ones to use. Oh and I do use strobe with grids occasionally but on very small boxes. to there’s good shadow and contrast.
Thanks for the comment. Come back soon. Larry

By: Andrew Rodgers

Andrew Rodgers — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:14:29 +0000

I saw where you were talking about hotlamps, and how the fresnel hotlamps are hard to simulate using strobes and grids. What do you know about the old film spectrum response, and how that related to the “hot-lamp look”, it seems before there was panchromatic film, it had almost no response to the blue spectrum. Do you take that into account when converting to BW from Digital? I love the look of your images!
Andrew Rodgers
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