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Originally Posted by Photaz
Who dose your retouching? I love your skin tones and how consistent you keep them from one shoot to another. To achieve your consistent results is it done in post or shooting technique?
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Good consistant skin tones is a challenge for any people shooter and it's something that we constantly strive for. One thing that I learned many years ago when I was shooting Commercial Photography (brochures & catalog work) is that consistant and repeatable results is key to success. And the only way to get consistant and repeatable results is to have the right tools for the job and to develope good shooting technique. For me - this means....doing proper custom white balances thruout the day and....constantly checking and refining my lighting and exposures thruout each set of pics.
This process of shooting although slow and tedious....enables me to spend less time in post processing because my images are always lit well and properly exposed. While other shooters who are less concerned with "spot-on" color, exposures and compositions can sometimes shoot 10 to 15 sets per day, I am able to do only 5....because of how much time it takes to shoot each set of pics. Basically...you get back what you put into it
In regards to retouching...I do that myself. Any of the pics that I've posted here on GFY were retouched by myself. Images that appear on Twistsy/BlueFantasies were retouched by our graphic guys up in Toronto.