One of the images from a shoot I did with Zandrea last weekend. I swear I didn’t make her skin look like porcelain or blur her skin. Look at the original image size if you really want to see. It’s just the combination of fine pores on her skin and the lighting setup with low contrast not causing many shadows on her pores. The new technique I used on this image was combining different RAW interpretations with different exposure, color and detail settings to even out tone and extract more detail. Natalia Taffarel describes the technique on a preview sample of her new retouching DVD here. I was pretty happy with the results so I’ll be using it often.
Lighting is standard clam shell with a medium white umbrella up top and a medium softbox underneath for shadow fill and to give a bit of kick to the eyes.
