Right now I needed to finish a job for a client. The romance
novel cover photos I shot for a publisher last Thursday needed changes. The
client wanted the female model to have green eyes, so I made her eyes green.
Longer hair, no problem. I can adjust the lighting with Photoshop and of course
they always want me to change the model’s cup size - up.
For this latest
Steampunk themed cover shot, I posed the beautiful young Victorian woman in the
arms of what I’d call a hunky geek. In one of his hands I’d placed a LeMat
revolver and in the other, a swooning Lori Armbruster. My raven-haired female
model wore a riveted leather and velvet corset over several diaphanous silk
petticoats. André, the muscular, blonde male model was dressed in an Australian
Bush Coat, opened at the chest of course, with no shirt underneath. A pair of
brass rimmed goggles were pushed up on his forehead. I had my makeup artist add
a little grime on both their faces since this was set in the age of steam
engines. I’d shot it on a green screen so the publisher’s graphics people could
drop them into a photo composite background illustration for the book cover.
That was all great, except now they didn’t want the woman’s face to be grimy,
so I had to electronically touch up her complexion because they’re too cheap to
pay for a reshoot. I love my job!
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