First "risque" session. Pin-up CC

[SabrinaO]

I was nervous as hell.. but I think I did alright. It got confusing sometimes when I told her what to do and how pose, what to do with her legs etc though. Anyways here are some shots. Please CC.

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Whats the best way to smooth out her legs? Blur doesn't look good, and neither does the smudge... so i didn't touch her legs here.
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I used the smudge tool on her legs. I don't think it looks all that good.
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[SabrinaO]

Here are more.

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I have to brighten the background here...
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[Bitter Jeweler]

I like the first on the best, but it also seems very familiar to me. Is the pose based some well know artist?The third one...it's pretty obvious where you smudged, and where you didn't.

 

[SabrinaO]

I know it doesn't look good. I just did a quick sweep with the smudge on her legs in that photo. What do you suggest? I don't know if that's a famous pose but I see it in different variations on flickr/google when I was studying poses.

 

[adversus]

Your profile says your photos are OK to edit so I took a stab at smoothing her legs (click for larger):

 

[SabrinaO]

:thumbup:Whats your secret? Please share

 

[subscuck]

Good Lord, Sabrina, you've been here long enough to know to number your pics. Nothing in the first set does much for me, but overall I like the second set. Especially un-numbered 2. Very WW 2 era pin-uppy.

Adversus' edit is an improvement on the un-numbered shot from the first set, but the difference in lighting on her legs vs the upper body, I don't know. Still looks kinda funky.

 

[CCericola]

I think the photos just need a bit of back lighting. Check out Danielle Bedics. She photographs Dita Von Teese.

Danielle Bedics pin-up girl images - The Pin-up Files

 

[SabrinaO]

Good Lord, Sabrina, you've been here long enough to know to number your pics. Nothing in the first set does much for me, but overall I like the second set. Especially un-numbered 2. Very WW 2 era pin-uppy.

Adversus' edit is an improvement on the un-numbered shot from the first set, but the difference in lighting on her legs vs the upper body, I don't know. Still looks kinda funky.

The lighting on number 2 I think its a combination of post processing and the fill light being a little too high. I'll edit it overall once I smooth her legs.

 

[SabrinaO]

I think the photos just need a bit of back lighting. Check out Danielle Bedics. She photographs Dita Von Teese.

Danielle Bedics pin-up girl images - The Pin-up Files

Its funny you say that! I wanted to use a snoot for the background of this shoot, but i'm waiting on my speedlight trigger to come in the mail. So I just used a main and a fill light.
Thanks for the link... awesome!

 

[SabrinaO]

How is this? I did a little dodging and burning here...

 

[CCericola]

Nice!

 

[CCericola]

I was thinking more of something like this. But that is just my take on pinup.

 

[SabrinaO]

I was thinking more of something like this. But that is just my take on pinup.

I think your edit is a little too much.. What did you do to her legs though?

Here are more of my edits. Thanks again for the idea! I really think this is what it needed!

 

[CCericola]

I used the Portraiture plug in and some Nik filters