Lacing Lilith Latex Couture + Colour Toning
It’s been a long while since I’ve put something up on my main site but I’ve finally done it!
I had a shoot with with friends from Lacing Lilith Latex Couture over a year ago now! At the time they said they’d do the editing for their own site and so the set went to the back of my editing queue. But of late I’ve been managing to get through things and so came around to this set. Lacing lilith crew specifically asked me to do a fairly basic setup – with a plain light background which would allow them greater flexibility for edits – and so this also gave me such an opportunity.
Up to now my editing has been if not basic, certainly standard – possibly retouching on some images but on the whole correcting blemishes and lighting – no special or additional styling styling other than possibly turning an image to Black and White. Having seen many a fashion shoot styled with toning I fancied giving it a try.
There seems to be numerous ways to tone an image – some are basic and will usually only offer a single colour in one layer, while others can add multiple colouring options. Some possible options I found :
- Fill Layer (Solid Colour): Basic, just adding a solid fill colour, however it’s possible to mask it or change the blend mode to affect one area.
- Curves : Add a curve and adjust it differently only the individual channels – this allows different colour adjustment throughout the lights to darks.
- Colour Balance : Add a colour balance layer – adjusting the colour by Highlights, Midtones or Shadows.
While Curves gave more control over which luminosity you’d change – a colour Balance layer seemed to give more control, or easier control over which colours you could choose – and so I mainly used this technique. Here’s an example of one of the adjustment layers I added:
As I’m new to this I won’t go into an in-depth tutorial and as everybody who tries a new technique I’m probably overdoing it, but c’est la vie.
These are the main steps I used to edit the photos:
- Duplicate layer and do a general fix such as hairs, major blemishes, etc
- Adjust eyes – brighten, whiten, enhance colour.
- Skin, hair and eyes: Smooth skin + background (slightly), sharpen eyes and hair.
- Lighten & darken some areas of the subject e.g. hair, clothes etc.
- Darken the background
- Colour/shade
And a selection:
The whole set is here : Lacing Lilith Latex Couture.
Links to some involved:
Clothes
Lacing Lilith : https://www.facebook.com/lacinglilithlatexcouture
Models
Sohui : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sohui/105472156166190
Becky : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Becky-Burton-Model/116486168372703
MUA
Roseanna Velin : https://www.facebook.com/roseannamakeupartist?ref=ts
Keep Calm and Carry On
No – not another post on the London Riots. Although some of the posts on social network sites did remind me of this.
Last month I did another product shoot. This time for food/drinks containers – although they have an interesting twist. They use the now well known “KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON” slogan.
There’s an interesting story about it’s history here. Essentially it was kept back from the public from it’s conception in 1939 – as it was only really intended for the time of an invasion. Of course invasion never arrived and so the poster was forgotten until it was purchased (by accident) with some second hand books and put up by its new owner. – Go read the link – there’s more there.
Anyway – I think it’s a great slogan for anything container like and would be a great souveneir or present – best of luck to the brand.
