kirsteen close up

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Originally uploaded by harvey30887

Location : basement of the models house, shown below.

model : Kirsteen Leask
Assistant: Charlote Walsh
Photographer : Christopher Harvey

harvey30887-portfolio.blogspot.com/2008/02/final-of-model...

This shot is similar to the shot on the link above.

This shot consisted of one light directed to the right of the figures face and a large white board on the left pointing directly at her. I wanted to create maximum detail to her face canceling out deep shadows that would loose detail i wanted to gain.

Personally i believe this shot works really well, it gives no room to let the eye wonder, it is paced in front of you as a simple creative portrait and it has the eye catching element i want because of the warm colour tones and her eyes glaring right back at you reminding me of the portrait of Mona Lisa just contemporary.

processing the image:

-heightened the colour to warm it up and more eye catching colours.
- air brushed the whole face to blend the make up and skin tones, to add it more of a model shoot style of photograph.
- i left some of the models details in to add more natural elements such as: strands of loose hairs, some bumps in the skin, some colour corrections .