Tag:Beauty

Studio Tour: John Gress’s Chicago Portrait Photography Studio

Come along as I give a tour of my new studio! Including a lot of the gear I have in the space!

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Chicago Beauty Photography and Videography for SA Style Studio

John Gress created Chicago Beauty Photography and Videography for a digital marketing campaign for SA Style Studio. The project consisted of step-by-step video tutorials and portraits which were used to promote their website coordinating hair, makeup and fashion styling for model and everyday people.

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Beauty Retouching Tutorial With Infinite Skin & Infinite Retouch Photoshop Plugins

In today’s video I will show you how I retouched this beauty image in Photoshop. I will liquefy, clone and heal. Then I will smooth the skin and dodge and burn with Infinite Tools plugins. And Then Finally I will fix her hair color and cleanup the seamless background.

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ReadyLightMedia va. JohnGressMedia Photo Critique: Fashion & portrait photography tips

So I sat down with professional photographer and lighting expert Jeff Carpenter (of Ready Light Media fame), to go over 5 images from multiple genres (submitted by their makers) to give suggestions on how the photos could be improved.

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Softlight V. Hard light, breaking down 5 lighting setups in the photo studio

There are two main approaches you can take in the studio, or on location. And which lane you choose will have a huge impact on the outcome of your images. You could choose to emulate window light, or you could choose to simulate sunlight.

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