{"id":1628,"date":"2019-03-05T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2019-03-05T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:14:14","slug":"aurelie-before-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/aurelie-before-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurelie: Before & After"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As you can see, it’s tilted. This is a common thing for me when I’m shooting pole. I don’t know what visual cue I’m picking up on but something in the framing makes me do this a lot. So that’s the first thing I correct in every pole photo. Even if it’s only a degree or two off, it’s gotta be fixed because that giant reference pole will definitely<\/i> be noticed.<\/p>\n

So here’s the cropped and straightened image, and the final edited version. <\/p>\n

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Aurelie moves around a lot, so there are a heap of marks to remove from the floor. The usual skin smothing and a bit of hair cleanup, and done.<\/p>\n

But it still wasn’t my style. Red and blue just don’t work for me. I bought a mountain bike last year and I had the choice of Boring Ass Black, or Blue with Red. I bought the boring one because blue and red is just eye searing. So I went back to the source, and tweaked it all up again. Here’s the edits for both versions:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the blue version didn’t take much work, but the second revision received a ton of tweaks. I had to hammer the red and luma channels, and reign in the highlights a lot, to try and keep the colours under control. Both versions had the base black level brought up a notch, but the new image had it raised a little more, plus the shadows were raised. Throw in a smidge of ‘clarity’ for extra pop, darken two corners, cut the exposure back to zero… And let’s nudge the colours of the shadows, highlights and<\/i> the midtones…<\/p>\n

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Yeah. This really works for me. The first version really resisted my attempts to brighten it, because the colours kept going wrong. But this… Fwoof! I get goosebumps. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurelie’s a fanstastic person to work with. She works incredibly hard on her pole skills and it shows in every movement. For a shoot last year she asked for red and blue lights, which is not really my thing. I thought I’d done it wrong, but she loved it, and a lot of others did too. This is from that session:<\/p>\n

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And when she came back a few days ago, she asked to do it again.<\/p>\n

Here’s where we started:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2,17,15,49,16],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-aurelie","tag-patreon","tag-pole","tag-poledancer","tag-strongwomen","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}