So almost since begging of this year and even early I was working as a freelancer in multiple of fields. I was working in retouching section doing work for Vincent Dolman a London fashion photographer, as well as working for Recom Farmhouse a London based CGI company which main focus is car advertisement but they also do other projects in order to branch out and have wider range of work.



The work for Vincent Dolman is quite exciting and interesting. He do challenge and makes me head ache from time to time when it comes to the jobs. The retouching I do for him do vary quite a lot. I get sometimes pictures which I have to assemble from multiple shots so that the model, background and everything else match and sometimes I get pictures that just require heavy retouching and colour grading.



As a example on some work that I did for him you can see below a Clapham Grand photo shoot . Each of there pictures were mostly composite out of multiple shots with different lightings, backgrounds and so on. He did use a very slow shutter speed to capture a lot of ambient light on the girls so I had to work on sharpening some areas here and there as well as matching it all up and getting it to look lovely.

Now lets have a look at breakdown of two of the images.

 Now as you can see this is a lot of layers. I had to retouch a lot of them in order to produce the final image. Each image before I could even consider it to use had to be undistorted, de noised, matched with brightness saturation and so on. Once I did that I had to put the parts I wanted in composition and 90% of the time there was camera shake and other issues making my job even more entertaining. Once we got all the images in and parts of the scene to look the way we wanted I then started to colour grade and tweak the mood of the image to the photographer directions.

Here you can see one of harder images that I worked on. The problem with this image I had was that we both wanted to have quite bright background but once we made it bright it fell fake since the lighting on the girl and background did not really match making it quite difficult piece of work. At the end I end up having to slightly fake the lighting on background and tweak the colours to average the lighting so it all looks like it was shot in one go and match.