Chris Nelson. Master Guide for Glamour Photography: Digital Techniques and Images. 2007

pretty intense catchlights in her eyes. Some light was reflected off the truck fender and chrome, providing a bit of fill. Tammy ...

sandbars (above, left). Sandbars are great in that you can pose your subjects in just an inch or two of water. Here, Jess’s faci ...

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and one 30-inch silver reflector, placed about 60 degrees to camera left. This wrapped light around her face and put catchlights ...

we used a flash, diffused with tissue, that was set to match the ambient day- light as closely as possible. Normally fur coats a ...

W e’re in an era where technology has given photographers the ability to do more with their images than ever before. If we’re no ...

the money with your exposures, and making sure the backgrounds are free from distracting elements. This may sound like an antite ...

ever, use a sensor that is smaller than that—meaning you’re not using the full lens area that you are paying for. As a result, a ...

TOP LEFT—A fast lens can let you handhold your camera even in low light. You could have taken this image with a slower lens moun ...

rail and shot at^1 / 8 second at f/2.8 with the camera set at ISO 1250 and the stabilizer on. The image is tack sharp and, yes, ...

work. If the contrast isn’t quite there, go to Image > Adjustments > Curves. Once opened, you’ll see a graph with a line r ...

ening with the Unsharp Mask filter. Using the sliders, I set the amount at 75 to 100 percent, the radius to 2.0 to 2.5 pixels an ...

Enhancing the Teeth. Using the Lasso tool, with the feathering set at 5 to 10 pixels, outline her teeth. Then, go to Image > ...

light. You’ll want to experiment with these modes to get the look you want. For further control, adjust the opacity of the effec ...

Go to the Layers palette and reduce the opacity of the duplicated layer. A setting of 50 to 80 percent usually works, but you’l ...

that can be used dramatically for a funky, artistic look. It can also be applied subtly to enhance the texture of hair and cloth ...

ing to get the best-possible result right out of the camera, then use Liquify to tweak it. I know several photographers who char ...

tle. I also added yellow using the Color Balance adjustment (Image > Adjust- ments > Color Balance) to warm her skin tone ...

I f you want women to seek you out, you’ll need to first create an image for your studio. This image should reflect your artisti ...

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