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When I take pictures of myself, it looks like I'm hardly wearing any makeup at all even with I'm wearing a ton of makeup and every flaw is magnified a 1000x. My eyes are so red, it looks like I haven't slept in days. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Hopefully, this cold will go away by the time I get to Cali.
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if your eyes have a red-ish cast in their white area, you should check the white-balance settings of your camera. try shooting a white sheet standing where your face will be; if it doesn't appear white in the image, then you have to set the white balance.
if your pupils are red, don't use the flash or use a digital filter to correct.
if skin or make-up flaws are very sharp in the image, it's not a defect, it's a feature of your lens
professional photographers always add some blur to the skin in portraits. you can try a soft-focus filter, either physical or digital. digital is better, imho, since you can apply it only where and when needed, and you can try different settings until you get the softness effect you are searching for.
a vanished makeup can be corrected by adding some contrast to the image, or by modifying the rgb levels or curves, or even correcting the white balance setting.
lighting has a deep influence over any of the above: on the subject, i agree with *indi-is-conan.
i hope this helps, ingrid
if your pupils are red, don't use the flash or use a digital filter to correct.
if skin or make-up flaws are very sharp in the image, it's not a defect, it's a feature of your lens
professional photographers always add some blur to the skin in portraits. you can try a soft-focus filter, either physical or digital. digital is better, imho, since you can apply it only where and when needed, and you can try different settings until you get the softness effect you are searching for.
a vanished makeup can be corrected by adding some contrast to the image, or by modifying the rgb levels or curves, or even correcting the white balance setting.
lighting has a deep influence over any of the above: on the subject, i agree with *indi-is-conan.
i hope this helps, ingrid