Manfred Mueller
About the Image(s)
This is an image that has been sitting around for a number of years, one that I knew had potential, but never got it looking the way I wanted until now.
I had sat in on a makeup course that was given at a local community college in order to improve my understanding of what a makeup artist would do to improve the looks of a person. I provided portfolio images for the students in exchange for letting me photograph them. One of the students was more interested in theatrical makeup than in the fashion/beauty makeup that most of the class. This was her work.
She wanted to do the face only, but I told her that wouldn't work so used Photoshop to retouch the neck as well. I pushed the sharpening a lot harder than I normally would to give the image the appearance of hard stage lighting. Lighting was from a reflective umbrella on the camera left side and a white reflector on the camera right set up to give a softened split lighting.