Merrique Remote

So a lot of you ask about remotes and how it's done.  Merrique is an expert at it and we shoot at least once a month.  The first photo shows the setup for one of our sets during the February shoot.  Merrique is standing in front of her glass doors at her home.  You can see the single light we're working with to her right.  It's just a work LED with shutters to focus the light.  We also work with different lights depending on the setup, but this day it was just the single light.  You can see the yellow tint  that the light creates and the harsh backlight coming through the doors.  Merrique also had a smoothing filter on the camera, which yields a soft kind of dreamy image.  Merrique likes how it makes her look so we shoot with that filter a lot.  The next image is the processed image.  I had to cool down the lighting both in front and behind Merrique (or I could have converted this photo to black and white to tackle the problem).  You can see that almost all of the yellow has been removed and replaced with a bluer cast to cool down the image.  This is to taste really.  I like the cooler look in this one, but not the other image I posted during the month in review below.  I also had to run the photo through a denoise program that I have because we were shooting at relatively high ISO (1000) which introduced a lot of noise.  I use Topaz products for the denoise function, but there are others out there that do an equally good job.  I very seldom use the sharpening and noise reduction sliders in Lightroom.  They don't do a very good job with noise IMHO.  I hope you like this little "here's how it's done session" and if you would like to see more of this type of content just let me know.  As always thank you for your support.