Learning Photography
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- vaxorcist0
many beginners think it's "the lens" or "the photoshop/lightroom" tweek, when "it" is often a combination of the lighting, the lens and lens angle, but most of all, the model, the stylist and the art direction that goes for radical simplicity, which is as we all know, often a difficult thing for real clients who keep wanting more stuff in the photo....
post processing tweeks like desaturation can look nice, but they depend a great deal on the right model, the expression, a bit of diffused side light or something that gives smoothness and contrast at the same time, as well as clothing choices that work well with a desaturated aesthetic... so, in a way, it's not so much the post-production idea was first, but rather the post-production tweeks were done in relation to the shoot... a different set of images may give more saturation, not less, i.e. see the image by Jean-Paul Bourdier above....
there's also www.fashioneditorals.com and many others....