Labelle Photo » Models

In the studio with Taryn

Jean Labelle — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:00:52 +0000

Taryn, an Ottawa professional makeup artist, was an absolute pleasure to work with yesterday.
With her new website about to go live, a few headshot and portrait photographs of this stunning beauty were in order.

Headshot Session With Adam

Jean Labelle — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:56:22 +0000

Adam wanted a few casual portraits done and a couple of business headshots for his Ottawa business venture.

House of Glass

Jean Labelle — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:02:10 +0000

Working in a house that has floor to ceiling glass windows can prove to be daunting as you can see in the test shot photo.
Not only do you have to deal with the multitude of reflections coming at you from all angles, you need to balance the exterior ambient light with the interior lighting.
Another thing to watch out for, again with reflections, is to keep your set clean, meaning all stylists, make-up-artists and models should not be in the same room as you are shooting as they will show up in the most unexpected places.
With the right angles and plenty of black fabric, one can overcome these tricky shooting situations.
These are just a couple of “test” and fun shots of Steve as we were setting up for a recent shoot.

When a passerby gets too close, I reel them in for a test shot.

Jean Labelle — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:58:28 +0000

Less is More

Jean Labelle — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:28:48 +0000

I’ve noticed lately, especially with some of the new younger crop of emerging photographers, a trend to apply a heavy-handed use of skin retouching techniques.

I’m sure we’ve all seen examples where the subjects face looks like plastic and too smooth to be real. The problem as I see it is that the retoucher is applying blur. The issue with this technique is that we completely lose all skin texture to the point of being unrealistic. Not only that, but if you zoom in, you’ll notice very soft eyebrows and eyelashes.

There are some excellent Photoshop plugins such as Portrait Professional by Anthropics Technology and my favourite, Portraiture by Imagenomic that can help you with your beauty / skin retouching workflow.

Even with these excellent tools, you still need to go easy with them. Go ahead and get rid of blemishes, pimples and wrinkles and then start working on skin softening with the above mention tools but be gentle and keep it real.

Of course, the plugins are like having your camera on “P” mode. You’re allowing the technology behind them to make all the decisions for you. Get to know and learn what is happening behind the scenes so that you can be in control and make your own decisions.

Maygan In Black & White

Jean Labelle — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:45:06 +0000

Sarah And Friend

Jean Labelle — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:13:06 +0000

Jennifer

Jean Labelle — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:48:09 +0000

Ottawa Fashion Week 2012

Jean Labelle — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:44:12 +0000

Protected: Symbiose by Hinda A

Jean Labelle — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:47:12 +0000