These are the three models on a recent group shoot. The dresses were provided by the shoot organizer and are ex-theatrical clothing. I thought they suited our purposes perfectly. The water pot was one of several props I took along. Additions like this open up more opportunities when posing the models.
Ronongo has asked that we add a note on what we have done whilst creating posts for this section. I made some minor changes to the base image in Lr before opening in Ps. For this one I added the third (centre) model and changed the colour of her dress, swapped the foot of the lefthand model as her toes looked odd, with cloning I tidied up the cuffs of the righthand model as they were unbuttoned and removed a chunk of her dress which had bunched-up due to being too large, faded the greenery a little to separate the background, changed the colour of the water pot, did a bit of frequency separation to the faces and added various adjustment layers (mainly curves and hue & saturation) as required. I generally work in 16-bit ProPhoto colour gamut but changed to 8-bit as I couldn't remember the 16-bit settings for frequency separation (!) and then ran into problems saving an sRGB jpeg to suit UHH. Just wasn't my day! Anyway, it's now near enough to what I see when viewing the original psd file. Your critique is welcome, as are any suggestions re method.

These are the three models on a recent group shoot. The dresses were provided by the shoot organiser and are ex-theatrical clothing. I thought they suited our purposes perfectly. The water pot was one of several props I took along. Additions like this open up more opportunities when posing the models.


I made some minor changes to the base image in Lr before opening in Ps. For this one I added the third (centre) model and changed the colour of her dress, swapped the foot of the lefthand model as her toes looked odd, with cloning I tidied up the cuffs of the righthand model as they were unbuttoned and removed a chunk of her dress which had bunched-up due to being too large, faded the greenery a little to separate the background, changed the colour of the water pot, did a bit of frequency separation to the faces and added various adjustment layers (mainly curves and hue&saturation) as required. I generally work in 16-bit ProPhoto colour gamut but changed to 8-bit as I couldn't remember the 16-bit settings for frequency separation (!) and then ran into problems saving an sRGB jpeg to suit UHH. Just wasn't my day! Anyway, it's now near enough to what I see when viewing the original psd file. Your critique is welcome, as are any suggestions re method.

These are the three models on a recent group shoot. The dresses were provided by the shoot organiser and are ex-theatrical clothing. I thought they suited our purposes perfectly. The water pot was one of several props I took along. Additions like this open up more opportunities when posing the models.


I made some minor changes to the base image in Lr before opening in Ps. For this one I added the third (centre) model and changed the colour of her dress, swapped the foot of the lefthand model as her toes looked odd, with cloning I tidied up the cuffs of the righthand model as they were unbuttoned and removed a chunk of her dress which had bunched-up due to being too large, faded the greenery a little to separate the background, changed the colour of the water pot, did a bit of frequency separation to the faces and added various adjustment layers (mainly curves and hue&saturation) as required. I generally work in 16-bit ProPhoto colour gamut but changed to 8-bit as I couldn't remember the 16-bit settings for frequency separation (!) and then ran into problems saving an sRGB jpeg to suit UHH. Just wasn't my day! Anyway, it's now near enough to what I see when viewing the original psd file. Your critique is welcome, as are any suggestions re method.