Tag Archives: models

Skull with Curly Hair

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Skull with curly hair.

Skull with curly hair. Model: Magdalena

I’ll admit that this portrait is shot using artificial light. I might also have altered the image slightly using software. If you ever come across a woman looking like this, then quickly head for a new horizon..

Check out Paula’s post for more B&W Sunday stuff or WordPress for more horizons:

Tattooed Model | Warsaw Tattoo Convention

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A tattooed model captured at the Warsaw Tattoo Convention.

A tattooed model captured at the Warsaw Tattoo Convention.

There are a few photos in my Flickr gallery from this event. I’ll upload plenty of more shots during the next days/week(s).
https://flic.kr/s/aHskF9tXeR

Inked Model @ Rooftop Party

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Beautiful, inked, alternative model @ Det Gode Selskab, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo.

Beautiful, inked, alternative model @ Det Gode Selskab, Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo.

This Saturday ‘Det Gode Selskab’ held an event at the rooftop of Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo.
More photos from this event will be posted shortly(-ish).

Paulina & Magdalena

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Two portraits with Paulina and Magdalena Jewuła.

Paulina Starosielec

Paulina

Film noir portrait of Magdalena Jewuła

Film noir portrait of Magdalena Jewuła

You can see more of them here:

Photo shoot with Rogue

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When I visited Bangkok, I made sure to arrange a tiny gathering that consisted of myself, the local model Rogue Seraphim, make-up artist Adia Braun, Adia’s husband and their kid. Naturally I’ve only captured the model on these photos:

Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun
Photo: CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com, Model: Rogue Seraphim, Make-up: Adia Braun

I also asked permission from the hotel to use their roof top pool as a location to shoot some photos, but since I didn’t get their permission I’m not gonna do any free advertising for the hotel in this blog or anywhere else. In other words: these photos were shot at some location, somewhere in Bangkok.

Links:

Portraits: Paulina

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I have plenty of portraits of beautiful models and it’s a shame (no, it’s a sin!), to let them gather dust on the hard disk. That’s why I decided to post portraits for the next coming posts in this blog.

Instead of posting them one by one, I’ve divided them into models. First one up is (the title kind of revealed it already) Paulina. I’ll share more photos of her later, but for now enjoy these two shots:

Paulina by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

Paulina by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

Natalia Kuternoga

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Model: Natalia Kuternoga

Model: Natalia Kuternoga

The Process

  • At first I shot photos of the model, Natalia Kuternoga in the studio of the Polish photographer Jacek Ura.
  • After the photo shoot I did some basic adjustments to the photo in Adobe Lightroom, exported the result and opened it in Adobe Photoshop.
  • The first thing I did in Photoshop was to make selections to separate the model and background.
  • Then I created a displacement map from a photo I took of a worn down graffiti wall in an old fort near Krakow in Poland.
  • I added the displacement map plus a few details from a color splash photo.
  • Separated two copies of the models left eye. Changed the settings, dodge and burned and finally merged the layers when I had my wanted result.
  • Brushed in a couple of leaves from the standard Photoshop brushes
  • I then changed the overall colors of the photo by adding several layer masks (the following numbered list is reversed, so # would be the bottom, # 5 on top):
  1. a black & white layer
  2. gradient map red/orange set to color and with lowered opacity
  3. copy of gradient map set to soft light and a very low opacity
  4. a gradient fill ranging from dark to light green and set to soft light
  5. a color balance layer with a medium opacity and individual settings for the shadows, mid-tones and highlights
    • The first layer was set to screen mode with a high opacity before I brushed out the unwanted parts leaving the effect basically on the left side of the photo.
    • The flames was added as 3 layers from two different shots I have in my catalog.
    • The second layer is another photo of flames, set to darken and medium opacity. Also on this layer I brushed away the effects using a layer mask.
    • The third flame layer is a copy of the second, but now set to luminosity with a medium strong opacity (and off course with an individual layer mask like all the other layers).

Now the image looks something like what I wanted it to look, so it’s time to go through all the layers and layer masks, change the opacity if needed, brush out masks, and do minor adjustments. I decided to make another copy of the eye, create a selection, border the selection and paint a white circle. I sat the blend mode to lighter color and lowered the opacity and fill drastically,  so that it left a hint of some crazy iris but without becoming too dominant.

Model: Natalia Kuternoga.

Photo, execution, idea, design, layout: Cardinal Guzman

This was my entry for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge: Hue.