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Model: Siona

Nicely done Leek. I like the colors and composition with model looking down.

I have a few questions. Is the intention to model the clothing or to show off the model?
How do you manage skin tones in this sort of color scheme?

John,

While I like the framing and composition in this, you have let your quality of work slip here due to the poor wb settings. When you're shooting in open shade, there may be a tendency towards a blue cast in the image, and this needs to be addressed. This is very evident in the shadowed areas of the white dress, as well as in the skin colouration on her legs.

I'm almost of the opinion that this image may also be under-exposed, but I'd like to see the wb corrected before I make that call.

gstark wrote:John,

While I like the framing and composition in this, you have let your quality of work slip here due to the poor wb settings. When you're shooting in open shade, there may be a tendency towards a blue cast in the image, and this needs to be addressed. This is very evident in the shadowed areas of the white dress, as well as in the skin colouration on her legs.

I'm almost of the opinion that this image may also be under-exposed, but I'd like to see the wb corrected before I make that call.

 LOL... You're spot on gary, but sometimes I like to play with WB settings for artistic effect, and this was definitely one of those occasions... I deliberately made it blue and also toned down the exposure and even applied a vignette to give it a darker more moody feel.

surenj wrote:Nicely done Leek. I like the colors and composition with model looking down.

Thanks... this was an accidental shot and having seen it in the viewfinder I actually had the model walk along the wall 5 more times, but didn't get quite the same mood / effect that I captured in this first random shot...

surenj wrote:I have a few questions. Is the intention to model the clothing or to show off the model?

In this case, neither really... we were trying to capture some moody conceptual images... I'll show you a few more soon when they've been processed...[/quote]

surenj wrote:How do you manage skin tones in this sort of color scheme?

Badly
As replied to Gary, I deliberately cooled down the tone of the image... and when I do that the skin tone follows... wasn't attempting tone accuracy here... more a feel to the shot...

leek wrote: I deliberately made it blue and also toned down the exposure and even applied a vignette to give it a darker more moody feel.

Ok ... but I'm left wondering if there perhaps might have been other ways to achieve the darker/moodier feel without turning this beautiful lady into a blue-skinned .... I'm thinking in terms of black point or perhaps matt box, rather than wb ....