Now let me start by saying this is really a beautiful model so I didn’t crop off her head because she’s anything less than beautiful. I didn’t crop it off because here eyes were closed. In fact, there was nothing wrong with her in this shot, but I felt this image was stronger with this crop because the subject here is her stomach (no liquify here – that’s the real deal). It takes courage to crop a good part of your image, but when you look at the big picture the image is stronger for it. In addition, beauty is subjective so the less you see the more your mind fills in the blanks so this model is probably appealing to a much wider audience in this frame than she would if her entire head was included – which is true of ANY human!
I shot this with a Canon 5D Mark II using my EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens dialed in at 70mm and I was at f/11 for 1/160 sec @ ISO 160 thanks to my studio lights working hard for me. The light meter suggested f/14 but I decided to push it on the brighter side and dial it down a touch in post processing.
This was an easy shot to process thanks to this model’s great body condition. I only used Portraiture for skin softening (everyone needs it – seriously) and Photoshop’s High Pass Filter for additional definition in the muscle areas. That’s it, the rest is out of camera and the added saturation boost was just a manual white balance adjustment in Lightroom. No additional changes were made (i.e., no sharpening, saturation adjustments, etc…).
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