From the recent "F you" photoshoot with Pamela Beck I have worked on the bed image of her yet I can't decide which colour of image I like more.
Here are the 3 images with my thoughts, Please let me know yours.
Here are the 3 images with my thoughts, Please let me know yours.
This first edit is after all the skin softening has been added the white balance was at 5500k with no change in tint. The image looks ok to me but it doesn't convey the atmosphere… but my question what is the atmosphere I am wanting to convey?
My first edit was to deffo give it a warm tone. I moved the white balance up to 7000k (when shooting with Nikon sb 900 speedlight which puts out at 5500k, changing in camera or post edit white balance to a higher temp makes the image more orange in colour)
Now to me this is much more of a Hollywood style look, its warm and inviting, it has golden skin tones.
Then my second White balance edit was to bring it lower than correct, here it is down to 4000k.
To me this image has a total different look, it has gone from warm and inviting to cool and seductive. It reminds me more of a perfume advert or a fashion shot rather than a portfolio image.
This image is more Vodka while the shot above is more Rum and Coke, and the first image is Gin.
What do you think and what do you prefer?
Fyi
Shot taken with the Nikon D300, Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 @ f/8 and the Nikon SB-900
Here is how I edited the images
