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I don't use cloth ever since I starting investing in Savage seamless paper. I order them from Amazon and have not regretted getting any rolls yet. The lighting could use a little work as well. I also strongly believe in retouching when shooting portraits especially with side lighting which embellishes bad skin. You can practice editing with sample RAW images from Model Mayhem http://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/thread/76. Keep shooting and finding your grove! Here are some recent edits I did from MM (not my images). Click image for Hi-Res copy.
I actually picked up a white Savage seamless (short one) last week. I did some self-portraits and took some photos of my brothers yesterday and, I LOVE it. I picked up some clamps from home depot to use with this cheap stand I have. It photographs so much better than the muslin, which I spent what seemed like an hour ironing, and annoys me that I can still see through it. but I may still use some fabrics because I like the creative, yet simple, designs and they're thicker. I picked the seamless paper up from a local camera store, but my only regret is not ordering the full sized one, I'll probably order it sometime soon, along with another black one to replace the muslin I have.
As far as the photo I have, I know the skin looks bad, but I tried some skin softening in LR. It didn't help much, obviously. I really wasn't too sure where to go with it from there. Do you use PS? I'm really trying to learn how to use these programs, but they can be so difficult to understand. Even some of the tutorials, when they use words like layers, curves, and masks it completely loses me. Any suggestions on where to start? I'm pretty much a blank slate when it comes to PS, lol. I know how to open the program with an image and that's about it.
Those are some good edits btw!
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