What is this process called?

[Tammy Snyder]

I was just looking at and admiring this site,
Brianna Graham - Grand Rapids, Michigan Portrait Photographer, photography, children's photography
and wonder what technique you would call this and how is it accomplished?

Thank you.

[RLucas]

Most of the images I looked at have different processing. It looks like she likes a lot if saturation. It also looks as though she uses a lot of skin smoothing techniques.
I don't know what else to tell you?

[Tammy Snyder]

Originally Posted by RLucas

Most of the images I looked at have different processing. It looks like she likes a lot if saturation. It also looks as though she uses a lot of skin smoothing techniques.
I don't know what else to tell you?

Thank you. I just loved the vividness of the colors, the richness. Thought perhaps it was a special and specific technique you had to purchase or download. (You never can tell.)

Appreciate you checking!

[RLucas]

Is there any specific editing software you use? You can buy/download actions for PS, or you can do it yourself. If you are using PS, you can create a new layer and change the blend mode to "soft light". This will usually give you a little more color pop. Also, you can look up tutorials for using levels and curves to do this as well. I quite like her use of color as well. The skin smoothing seems a little over done in some images though.

[LeeR]

Make no mistake, this woman is a pro so she has a lot of things going for her in these images. For one thing her lighting is perfect and perfectly matched to her post processing. She has also developed a series of techniques in ACR that allow her to get a certain 'look' she is after. She supersaturates the image with the "vividness" clider so she doesn't damage the sking tones, she pushes the blacks til they are nearly screaming for mercy and pushes skintones until they are just short of getting blown out. If you work in ACR a lot you can duplicate these actions either from memory or save them as a preset. If you want to try this yourself I suggest you download a set of free presets and see if there isn't one you like. Eventually, however, you are going to want to develop your own set of presets and make them you signature style.

[Tammy Snyder]

Originally Posted by LeeR

Make no mistake, this woman is a pro so she has a lot of things going for her in these images. For one thing her lighting is perfect and perfectly matched to her post processing. She has also developed a series of techniques in ACR that allow her to get a certain 'look' she is after. She supersaturates the image with the "vividness" clider so she doesn't damage the sking tones, she pushes the blacks til they are nearly screaming for mercy and pushes skintones until they are just short of getting blown out. If you work in ACR a lot you can duplicate these actions either from memory or save them as a preset. If you want to try this yourself I suggest you download a set of free presets and see if there isn't one you like. Eventually, however, you are going to want to develop your own set of presets and make them you signature style.

Thank you, both of you. I will try your suggestions with some pics I have a see what luck I have.
Appreciate you!

[Sobriquet]

Agree with above, her images are very good to begin with. She looks to actually desaturate the skin tone and there is some evidence of post process blur (different to the kind of blur you get from a fast lens) but her images would be stunning anyway.

[kencaleno]

It's Cross lighting,(wraparound),combined with stylised post processing. The diagram below shows lighting, and post processing requires using shadow/highlight,gaussian blur and additional noise for effect.

[LeeR]

There is an old trick that may get you close. Take a portrait image and make a layer copy; apply gaussian blur, enough to make it look badly out of focus (I used a radius of about 8) then change the blending mode to "Overlay." Doing this will increase contrast a bit, saturate the colors and give the image a kind of dreamy quality. Don't over do it. Scale back the opacity if you need to.

[Michael_2010]

Very compelling portraiture and she has definitely managed to put her unique signature on every capture.