Crew Cast
Camera height and subject posture are really one fix: lower the camera, or have the subject stand up straight and land on the collarbone. Peter Hurley uses this session to split apart faults that used to blur together, giving three separate names to collar faults, one hovering off the neck, one tilted at the inside edge, one t-shirt collar folding inward, and two more to retouch-side eye problems, pupil smush and a watery eye situation. A bad jawline, he says, is often his own directing failure, not the subject's build. It closes with Marcus Rideout's second Headshot of the Week win, decided by a single vote.
Triangle demo: dipping the key versus feathering 8:08 Peter shows two ways to open or close shadow density on the same lighting setup, pulling the key toward the head to open it or feathering the light off the subject to darken one side.
Camera height ties straight to the collarbone line 1:07:57 Lower the camera or have the subject stand up straight, both aim at the same target, the collarbone.
A bad jawline traced to a directing failure 19:10 Peter reviews his own demo footage and blames himself for not directing the subject's face harder, not the subject's anatomy.
Three collar faults get their own names 1:27:10 HCI is a collar hovering off the neck and ITC is a tilted inside edge on the same shirt, with a third fault, ICF, a t-shirt collar folding inward, named at 1:30:29.
Jam red into overexposed teeth 40:05 Peter's default fix for yellow or overexposed teeth, repeated three times this session on different images.
Two new eye faults for retouching 1:01:44 Pupil smush is an over-processed black point that flattens iris detail, and a watery eye situation, or WES, at 1:17:39 is visible tear pooling that needs correcting in post.
Hair hooks, fixed by hand before the shot 1:16:08 Stray curl ends that catch and stick out get tucked back into the main hair mass, not corrected in retouch.
Headshot of the Week: Marcus Rideout's second win 36:04 Peter judges eighteen entries down to two finalists and calls a one-vote finish for Marcus Rideout, his second Headshot of the Week title.
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