Photo Deconstruction - Creating a Painterly Beauty Photo
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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In this photo deconstruction I break down the making of a colorful painterly beauty image with an illustrative look. I began by being inspired by the painterly look created by makeup artist Yvonne Macinnis, and then decided what type of lighting would complement her creation.
First, I decided that a white background would help to create a stark canvas for the subject and that I would also lighten the skin (to almost white) to match the background. I lit the background with two small white umbrellas on either side for even illumination on a grey background.
Next, I lit the subject with a white beauty with a grid. The fill light (below) was a silver beauty dish and a blue gel. This blue gel would fill in the shadows on the face, and be a compliment to the yellow paint on the face (and match some of the blue paint).
Post-processing played a major role in the ‘illustrative’ and painterly look of the image. I drastically increased contrast and clarity, desaturated the skin tone, and saturated all of the paint colors of the face. These changes worked together to give a graphic and pop art look to the image.
What do you think? Is this something that you would try? Let me know in the comments!
Gear:
Canon 5DIV: adorama.rfvk.n...
Canon 24-105mm at 55mm: adorama.rfvk.n...
4 Profoto D2s: adorama.rfvk.n...
Profoto White Beauty Dish: adorama.rfvk.n...
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Profoto Small White Umbrella: adorama.rfvk.n...
Rosco Creative Effects Kit: adorama.rfvk.n...
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Photoshop CC: adorama.rfvk.n...
TetherTools Tether Cable: adorama.rfvk.n...
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Creative Team:
Makeup Artist: Yvonne Macinnis
Hair: Mark Williamson
Model: Kristina Cocoli
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Lindsay Adler: The greatest global source of inspiration! You are my idol !
Wow, thank you!
I really do feel you played a just as crucial role as Yvonne because there's no way someone could get that porcelain, white skin look easily without clown powdering the subject. Your lighting and processing is so creatively done! It's amazing seeing two powerful artists create so harmoniously, not to mention the talented model!
Very clever Lindsay!
AMAZING WORK! So inspiring!
You are great, Lindsay!
Dear Lindsay, hope you're safe and sound during the pandemic. I visited N.Y. several times while I was doing my Ph.D. in Washington D.C. and I loved it. At present, I live in Tehran. My hobby is photography. I spend hours and ours watching your tutorials on UA-cam. You are an amazing lady, confident and courageous- and stunningly beautiful...
I do appreciate your generosity in sharing your broad knowledge of photography with the enthusiasts .
My two daughters live in Albany near you! If and when I come to the States, I make sure to pay you a visit at
your studio.
You have all my love and prayers.
Bahram Delgoshaei
Thank you for the kind words! :)
Another great deconstruction and thumbs up to the make up artist looks great. Keep these video's coming Lindsay love watching the BTS i learn so much more this way. x
Working tethered is a must for the kind of creative work that you are doing. Obviously, you knew what you wanted to obtain from the beginning. Hurra! Another fantastic image!
I love how you share your thought processes. It helps me open up my brain to explore. I tend to get stuck in a rut and can't think outside the box. Thanks!
So glad to help. I know that hearing another photographer's thought process is always super helpful.
Fantastic creativity, as usual!
Lindsay this was a lot of fun and interesting to watch
Contrast and clarity, coupled with a commanding voice of vibrance. Lovely presentation.
You are such a star! ⭐️ Great work and thanks for sharing!
Another great video. I have done a few shoots where the model is painted on and it was great, especially one when the model poured the paint on herself
always so fun. x
Love this image! I definitely thought it was an illustration at first. Great job as always on the video!
awesome, that was my goal! xo
Love it!!!
Gorgeous work by everyone and I just love these and your work 😊
YOU ARE THE BEST!... Thank you for your explicación. ILY
I did a body art shoot were the artist painted a suit onto a model. Adjusting the colors was harder than I anticipated. Because i did want to adjust the models face. Just the paint. This was s great video!
Always look forward to your content and information, whether it's on here or insta, keep up the amazing work. You're inspiring.
Love your process, starting with the vision and then problem solving to realize that vision. Especially love the final image. So cool. Thanks for sharing the approach!
Thanks Marie!
as usual, great...cheers from Brazil
Cheers!
Luv this shot and technique. U always do amazing :)
Very cool!
Inspiring, as always!
I think the studio lighting work is fantastic, but I imagine you had a very clear idea of what you would do on the computer. The two things complement each other and the result is great.
I shoot tethered so I can mess around and make sure I am capturing what I need. :D
WOW!
Wow
ON1 Photo Raw allows tethered shooting also.
Liebe Lindsay, du bist eine sehr talentierte Fotografin. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪
We literally have a photo session planned for Sunday to do something similar, thanks for sharing this :-)
Awesome! Would love to see the results! Be sure to share it in my Create group on FB! :)
@@lindsayadlerphoto I will share for sure
Miss. Adler, as always beautiful you along with your beautiful work.. (LOL) Lo'ts of Love..
Awww
Super interesting, thank you!
wondering if Photoshop for yellows was necessary . Could have done it in LR ...yes/no ? thanks Lindsay :)
Yes you can use many different tools, I chose to do it in PS :D
I do not always like the end result (matter of taste as I have said before), but I always love the deconstruction and the thought process. Not getting locked in is a key.
There are many who think that you always have the final image in your mind. Not so. You have a base concept that you work to, but the final often takes on a life of its own as you progress. As you say over and over, you need an idea or a goal at the beginning of the shoot, but that may not be where you end up.
Could you do a deconstruct on something that ended up very, very different than originally intended? I think you have already done this in the past, but current would be nice. It would help to illustrate to people to NOT get locked into their original concept, and to allow themselves to be flexible enough to go where the image takes them.This is during the shoot and in post.
It is very satisfying to work and end up with exactly what you imagined, but sometimes the better image comes from following where the image takes you.
As always, GREAT.
I think that is a great idea. I will definitely do that in the future.
This makes me wanna experiment with paint
I love Miss linda
You comment the same thing on every post. Starting to wonder if it's spam!
@@lindsayadlerphoto no...para nada
@@lindsayadlerphoto amo tu saber y lo difunden tan transparente que sólo hago es enaltecer tu conocimiento...gracias espero no incomodar....los americanos son muy generosos con la información.y los latinos muy egocéntricos. De corazón mil gracias