Photography Tips & Tricks
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RE: Retouching vs in-camera,etc....
It seems a bit generational.... I've worked as a digital tech on jewelry on figure photo shoots using a 39 megapixel 'blad back,etc.. and the photographer was in his 50's, he came from the school of "get it right in the camera" and he was good at this.... it was true... my job was made much easier by his lighting, MUA, composition, angles... so very, very little retouching was needed, and of course, the model had great skin so it wasn't hard...
The supergauzy effect you mention has alot of lighting behind it and lens physics as well as photoshop....
I also know a great retoucher and I've seen her working, it's not so much a bag of magic tricks but an eye she has, and her ability to pre-visualise an effect, where she doesn't try, undo, try, undo, she gets things pretty right the first time..... she uses lots of layers, never destroys bits, wacom tablet, fast powermac....... and she does this all day long, so I'm sure you get better with practice and feedback from the high-end photographers standing right behind you....
- 3 assistants + 2 MUA's + art director and wardrobe.... shoots like this are good at what they do....vaxorcist