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The Butt Shot
Another standard McFarland pose. Andy purposefully keeps his poses simple, especially for beginning models.
The model has few options here and can concentrate on her expression.
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Step One:With border and sharpening
Andy's shooting regimen is a product of the digital revolution in photography.
The harsh highlights on Ashley's face and the hard, high shadows behind her are near universal to direct sunlight shots.
Without Photoshop, Andy would need a crew and giant scrims to diffuse the light.
Instead, Andy and the model typically work alone on the beach during the last few hours before sunset.
This photo, after going through the batch process, has especially hard shadows and Andy will make no effort to soften them.
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Step two: Smoothing the skin
After the batch processing, you can use the same Quick Mask technique to blur the skin and add noise.
The tattoo on the small of her back is included in the blur/add noise mask. Andy finds it is easier to remove after having been processed
like the rest of her skin.
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Step three: Tattoo removal
Normally, the easiest way to remove a tattoo is with the Healing Brush or Patch tool (J),
but here the tattoo is so close to the bikini bottom that the Clone tool(S) is more practical.
Enlarge the image to 500% and you can remove the tattoo and re-whiten that last tassel.
And sharpen Ashley's irises using the technique from the first photo: 100%, radius 3.0, and a threshold of 7.0.
In arching her back, Ashley pushed her belly forward. You can pull her belly in on the right side with Filter/Liquify.
Using the previous settings, but with a 30 pixel brush, bring her waist in at two or three points along her side.
If you want to be a purist, you can clone out the edge of lace showing alongside her belly.
It is less realistic now that her belly is pulled in.
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Step 4: Enhancing contrast
Again, the exposure on this image is just right, so adding a +15 to contrast with Image/Adjustments/Brightness-Contrast
brings out the color and further separates Ashley from the background. Andy applies his logo and uses Save for Web at a quality of 60,
and it is ready to post.
Download the full-sized original and the final edited image. Click Here
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Save Target As or Save Link Target As.
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