I'm only an amateur but think this work is amazing ,,,,,,,,,, how is it done ?
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
First, think of what you want to achieve, then you divide it in stages.
Some of it is compositing, some of it isn't, but it is a retouching done by the world-class artist. So, this is not amateur work, I can tell you that.
There is no particular recipe, as it depends on where you're coming from, what the initial image is.
What I can definitely tell that is going on from technical stand point:
Cloning and healing
Dodge and Burn
Local and global color adjustments using tools like curves, levels, color balance and hue saturation.
Sharpening
So, pretty much everything standard, no tricks. It's like a pencil, you can draw a portrait, or a building plans, it's up to the artist and his style, there is no recipe. But the end results here are often warm, contrasty, but with a low white point, desaturated images.
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
I can't tell you everything that went into them. I can spot some things at a glance. You'll see some where eyes, eye makeup, and lip makeup are really striking. Aside from overall adjustments, those areas have additional color correction. You can see areas where the background looks surreal relative to the subject. That's because it was adjusted separately.
One of the biggest struggles for most people early on is that sometimes elements are masked out and provided with additional adjustment in order to fit with the overall narrative. This can lead to a lot of frustration with fuzzy borders and things, so you also have to come up with strategies to perfect things that can't be easily separated with the tools that are available to you. Sometimes you will also need to implicate that two things are part of the same scene, when they were not photographed together. That part is compositing, and it uses similar techniques. Only a subset of these made use of it, and I don't think that is what drew you to them.
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
Originally posted by klev View PostI can't tell you everything that went into them. I can spot some things at a glance. You'll see some where eyes, eye makeup, and lip makeup are really striking. Aside from overall adjustments, those areas have additional color correction. You can see areas where the background looks surreal relative to the subject. That's because it was adjusted separately.
One of the biggest struggles for most people early on is that sometimes elements are masked out and provided with additional adjustment in order to fit with the overall narrative. This can lead to a lot of frustration with fuzzy borders and things, so you also have to come up with strategies to perfect things that can't be easily separated with the tools that are available to you. Sometimes you will also need to implicate that two things are part of the same scene, when they were not photographed together. That part is compositing, and it uses similar techniques. Only a subset of these made use of it, and I don't think that is what drew you to them.
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
Originally posted by skoobey View PostRealizing how much it is to do, and that overall effect is more important than making things "perfect" was the hardest obstacle for me, as well as realizing, that yes, you are changing the image, and it's not supposed to look like an initial image, but realistic in its own right.
The work actually has a lot of technical goofs as you can see. I still like it for its creative decisions.
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
I like it when model is close to the background. Yes, some things are harder to do then others, when you don't have the resources, but I thought we're talking about pure retouching.
That particular image, with girl sewing, looks like a background has been replaced, one in the field with flying kid is obviously a composite, so is the one with the roach.
Well, if adjustments contradict each other, we mask them.
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Re: Kristina Varaksina
Originally posted by skoobey View PostI like it when model is close to the background. Yes, some things are harder to do then others, when you don't have the resources, but I thought we're talking about pure retouching.
That particular image, with girl sewing, looks like a background has been replaced, one in the field with flying kid is obviously a composite, so is the one with the roach.
Well, if adjustments contradict each other, we mask them.
Also you really didn't spot the mistake on the background to the right of the girl? There are other things that don't really bother me, but that one is just an obvious mistake.
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