"Green-a-lize" with Bárbara Inês

Normally, I hate greens in my photos, but this worked out pretty good. Once again, the lovely Bárbara Inês, from the blog Banging Fashion.

"Red light - Green light" with Bárbara Inês

I can never get enough of this girl. It's been a journey to photograph her looks for her blog, Banging Fashion. She loved this one, and so did I. I love how the green hair suits her!

"This is what makes us girls" - New self-portrait

It's been a while since my last portrait, maybe a few months, and I must admit I missed it. Got inspired by Lana del Rey's 70's boho vibe, and I wanted a portrait that would transmit that. I hope I nailed it. And I wanted to try out my new LED light I got for my camera. I positioned it on the right of this photo, and the flash was pointed to the left, on a black background, so the light would not be harsh, but soft. The background color is burgundy.

As I have been doing with my last portraits, I always share a little about the Before/After of the portrait. First I always clear any skin imperfections and then dodge and burn, specially on the makeup and, in this case, the flowers to add a little more definition and depth.

After that, I added contrast and enhanced the reds of the hair, and then I blur a little bit on the edges on my head and at bottom of the photo, so the focus is right in the center. Then, I edited on Lightroom, with one of the VSCO presets, lowered the grain to 30% and added more blacks. And to finish it and add that special element, I added a little paper texture on the Photoshop pluggin Alien Skin - Exposure (NOTE: on the last photo I wrote Aperture for some reason... Sorry about that).

Here's the evolution.

The simplest B&W, with Bárbara Inês

How could I forget to post these??? The mood is absolutely amazing, romantic and soft, right before the storm. In those last photos you can even see some raindrops. Bárbara Inês, from Banging Fashion, beautiful like always.