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Tom V
January 1st, 2003, 08:39 PM
I am posting these here, because posting them in the gallery were the subject came up would be getting off-topic.

The original forum issue was Moire and a way to reduce it. My shot of the model wearing fishnet stockings is chock full of moire, and the Photoshop Action "Moire Reducer" eliminated the problem. See: http://www.s2pro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=1938#post1938

The model wearing the fishnets was from a TEST shoot were I tried to get as many clothing and position changes as I could in 1 hour. The shots were to be used for making mockup ad designs to submit to my client. Ultimately, a layout was chosen that incorporated the shot on the left. The combination of fishnets and white high-heel shoes is fashionably wrong for my client. My thought was that the fishnets would make the model's stick-like legs look a little fuller.

A few days later, I reshot the model wearing nicer hosiery, classier shoes, and had her standing on a sheet of white plexiglass. The background white paper sweep was overlit to blow out the paper, and the paper's reflection in the plexiglass. The idea was to have just the legs, and their reflections show up, this way the rest of the page could remain pure white. On the rest of the white page, I could arrange the text, a product shot, the company logo, etc.

Swampy
January 1st, 2003, 08:56 PM
Great job with the plexiglass. The fishnets had the desired effect as the legs do appear beafier. Was kinda kidding on the previous post. Kinda. This is why I try and stick to landscape photography...:o

memobug
January 1st, 2003, 10:05 PM
Nice work, Tom!

What product (or service!) was the client advertising?

Regards,

Matt

Tom V
January 2nd, 2003, 08:06 PM
The above legs are now part of a magazine ad. Since the above posting, I have retouched the image a bit. I added a bit of calf muscle to the model's weaker leg, and filled in a distracting dent in the knee using the Photoshop 7 Liquify filter. I lightened the top of the legs and removed a reddish cast from the center area.

The ad was assembled in Quark Xpress using a CMYK tif file from Photoshop, and an .eps file from Adobe Illustrator (the logo). I submitted the XPress file and the supporting files to the magazine. To make this attachment, I Printed to File from XPress (makes a .ps file), and from that file I distilled a PDF using Adobe Distiller. To trim the bleeds and registration marks off the PDF file, I used Adobe Acrobat. I then took the cropped PDF and opened/rasterized it into Adobe Photoshop in RGB at the attached size. In Photoshop, I saved the image for the web. The colors have been goosed and bumped and wrangled, and I think they are not 100% correct anymore. It may look too red and/or saturated, and it depends on your monitor.

Swampy
January 2nd, 2003, 09:30 PM
Originally posted by Tom Voegeli
The above legs are now part of a magazine ad. Since the above posting, I have retouched the image a bit.

Just saw a little link for reporting posts to the moderator. Almost hit it so I could report some pretty damn nice work!

Had to explain to my son that this is why people in magazines don't look as good in person. :)

Bryan

SSonnentag
January 3rd, 2003, 07:18 PM
Don't worry, the moderator is WELL aware of the nice work! :)

Shawn