Fitness Shoot

[Joe Thomas]

I shot this yesterday morning out at a local high school track. The model is the beautiful Carissa and she is a national level figure competitor. So I was lucky she agreed to shoot with me. I have some other pics from this shoot, but this is the first one that I processed because I think it is the most fun.

Joe Thomas : Fitness Photoshoot​

 

[Asher Kelman]

Joes,

This is a great introduction. Is here face a little grey, or is it just her makeup. What's the trade-off between the elbows cut off and being included?

Asher

 

[Joe Thomas]

Joes,

This is a great introduction. Is here face a little grey, or is it just her makeup. What's the trade-off between the elbows cut off and being included?

Asher

You are correct. The face is a little grey. I used a gradient map to grey the image a little bit. There was so much color saturation from the lens it just didn't feel like it fit with vision of the shot. So I used a gradient map to remove some of the color, and add a slight grey or black and white feel.

I cut off her right elbow (left elbow when looking at the pic) accidentally during the shot. So I just decided to get a nice close crop to compensate. lol. In my defense, I think the close crop helps bring out the emotion a little bit more.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Layer Pull Back Rule! Reduce to a minimum your perfect new Photoshop layers after each break!

You are correct. The face is a little grey. I used a gradient map to grey the image a little bit. There was so much color saturation from the lens it just didn't feel like it fit with vision of the shot. So I used a gradient map to remove some of the color, and add a slight grey or black and white feel.

I cut off her right elbow (left elbow when looking at the pic) accidentally during the shot. So I just decided to get a nice close crop to compensate. lol. In my defense, I think the close crop helps bring out the emotion a little bit more.

Hi Joe,

Let me share with you an oft-used technique of mine when editing seriously. After getting the best possible correction to my satisfaction, I leave that new layer and go off to do something entirely different, preferably away from the monitor and the regular world of other people, trees and sky. When I return, my self-set goal is to remove most of the change and leave the minimal effect that gives the sensibility I needed to chisel into the mage. The proportion remaining varies from 3-12% all the way to 65-98%, often in one or other of these and hardly ever in between this ranges.

The explanation I have is that when isolated form other matters, our brain's references to the real world get narrowed down and one is vulnerable to over compensation. Now this might, of course be only applicable to my work. However, in this case, it might be worth you considering, since if I can notice your edits to her face, then others might notice the edits too.

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

What an outstanding image! Great model, great shot, great choice to post.

 

[fahim mohammed]

Joe, that's a super shot.

Let me explain my thinking on it.

To me its all about capturing the emotion! The emotion, the emotion, the emotion. That's 80%

The other considerations are technicalities. They, for me, contribute an important 20%.

landscape, city scape, street, photo-journalism, portrait whatever....get the emotion you feel, let me
see it, let others see it.

Only then, it resonates with me.

You have done that. Well done.

 

[Joe Thomas]

Layer Pull Back Rule! Reduce to a minimum your perfect new Photoshop layers after each break!



Hi Joe,

Let me share with you an oft-used technique of mine when editing seriously. After getting the best possible correction to my satisfaction, I leave that new layer and go off to do something entirely different, preferably away from the monitor and the regular world of other people, trees and sky. When I return, my self-set goal is to remove most of the change and leave the minimal effect that gives the sensibility I needed to chisel into the mage. The proportion remaining varies from 3-12% all the way to 65-98%, often in one or other of these and hardly ever in between this ranges.

The explanation I have is that when isolated form other matters, our brain's references to the real world get narrowed down and one is vulnerable to over compensation. Now this might, of course be only applicable to my work. However, in this case, it might be worth you considering since if I can feel it doesn't work invisible to the viewer, then others might too.

Asher

I took your suggestion and I went left the image and I did some other things. When I came back I looked at it and I agreed with you so I decreased some of the gradient map a little to make it look less grey. But then I wanted some more grittiness in the face, so I added some in. Hahaha.

There are things that I would do different next time ( for example I would change that gridded strobe I used to her left and behind her), but overall I am happy with it.

What an outstanding image! Great model, great shot, great choice to post.

Thanks Rachel! I appreciate it. I am glad you like it.

Joe, that's a super shot.

Let me explain my thinking on it.

To me its all about capturing the emotion! The emotion, the emotion, the emotion. That's 80%

The other considerations are technicalities. They, for me, contribute an important 20%.

landscape, city scape, street, photo-journalism, portrait whatever....get the emotion you feel, let me
see it, let others see it.

Only then, it resonates with me.

You have done that. Well done.

Thanks Fahim! I appreciate your feedback.

And if any of you are interested here is another shot I got that day.

 

[Asher Kelman]

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Impressive! I can feel her gritty and focussed determination to do push herself to the limits.

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

Great shots of an amazing model. I'm envious!