New travel photography collection is being added to our archive. Today's feature is Kiyomizu-dera, 音羽山清水寺, a major Buddhist temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyoto, Japan.



Otowa no taki (Otowa Waterfall), 音羽の瀧, where Kiyomizu-dera temple originates from:



Koyasu pagoda, 子安塔, where women come to pray for safe and easy childbirth:



Jishu Jinja (Land-owner Shrine), 地主神社, largest match-making Shinto shrine with a number of side shrines:



And many other beautiful images in our collection...

For more information on Kiyomizu-dera please see the links below:
Kiyomizu-dera on Wikipedia
Kiyomizu-dera official website

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15年以上にわたるハイエンドの写真レタッチ体験で、広告や編集のレタッチ、商業と製品の写真レタッチ、美容とファッションの画像レタッチ、ポートレイトフォトレタッチ、ジュエリー、食品、静物、自動車画像のレタッチ、およびアーキテクチャのレタッチが含まれます。我々はまた、写真の構成と複雑な芸術的な写真の操作に熟練しています。

私たちは、日本の顧客や出版社にとって価値ある高水準の洗練された自然の美しさを知り、可能な限り、その基準に準拠し、自然の美しさを維持しようとします。

美しい写真や肖像写真のプロジェクトでは、わずかな顔面の清掃やしわの軟化から、自然なオーガニックな外観を保ちながら、高度な肌や髪のレタッチまで、様々なレベルのスキンレタッチを提供しています。気に入ると思います！

良いショットが芸術の驚くべき作品に変わるまで、私たちはあなたの製品と自動車のイメージを作り上げます。我々は、反射、折り目、折り目と影の徹底的なクリーンアップから始めて、オブジェクトの分離と背景の置き換えに持ち帰ることができます。私たちは自然な陰影、陰影、反射を追加して、あなたの製品がきれいに見えるようにすることができます。

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WeTransfer / Dropboxなどのクラウドファイル転送サービスを使用して、高解像度の画像を送信してください。最良の結果を得るには、RAWファイルがあれば送信してください。初期推定の低解像度写真やサンプル/インスピレーション写真は電子メールで送信できます。 FTPアクセスはリクエストに応じて利用できます。

テスト投稿/画像承認
新しいクライアントとして、単一の画像のテストレタッチをリクエストすることができ、承認のために低解像度のプレビューが表示されます。レタッチされたすべての画像は、最終支払い前に承認されます。

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We are adding a large set of beautiful timeless designs based on oriental Zen black ink on rice paper paintings by Sumi-e artist Veronika Maxim. Modern and classic colors, simple, elegant organic lines and natural beauty make these illustrations suitable for an infinitely large variety of applications, like home decor elements, clothing, commercial products and backgrounds for more complex designs.


More of these design illustrations on our website:

Our beauty photography retouching example. Hover over the image to see before/after.
BEFORE:



In life, when we look at a real person's face with our eyes, we don't notice most of the imperfections in their appearance. All our senses are focused on tracking the emotions, facial expression, keeping with the conversation, looking at subtle changes in the person's face, being submersed in the overall feeling of the totality of a person, and unless we specifically focus on a certain facial feature, all the imperfections, uneven features, wrinkles, untidy hair and the evenness of makeup escape our attention.

All this is very different when we look at a picture of a person. When looking at a photograph we are trying to feel out the depicted person but we have a very limited amount of information available to us. We don't have the movement, the sound, the smell. We don't see how the facial features change and express emotions. All we have is a flat image, so we get into studying it thoroughly without skipping any details. Every minute imperfection becomes the center of our attention. And a naturally beautiful face may look less than perfect to us, down to completely unattractive.

In our retouching we take the reverse approach of a painter. When an artist paints a picture they add only details that are necessary to create a mood and reflect the personality or beauty or the concept. They don't add any imperfections that are distracting and not necessary in conveying the message.

We look at the portrait and evaluate the features from this perspective. What needs to stay, what can be softened but still preserve the subtleties of the expression and what can just go as it's a completely unnecessary detail and doesn't add value to the image, but only creates a point of unwanted attention.


AFTER:


In the final result of this beauty retouching example you can see how we've approached the photograph of this beautiful woman face. We started with removing the unwanted shadows under the eyes and cheeks which made the skin look instantly tighter, younger and healthier. We are very unlikely to notice it in real life but it's very visible on a photograph. The next step was to soften wrinkles around eyes. Most of them weren't removed completely to keep the face look natural. Since we don't need to emphasize age in this photo and need to make it appear youthful and healthy, this was the way to approach it. Otherwise, we would keep all the wrinkles and soften them ever so slightly, just to reduce their depth and contrast.

Face contouring was the next important step in retouching this image. The chick bones, the jaw line and the forehead highlighted, the shadows around the nose and on the cheeks flattened and made more even. The final steps in making this face so attractive and healthy were: highlighting the eyes and lips and a slight skin tone, makeup and color correction.

Now we can see the pure beauty of this face without having our attention trapped by unwanted shadows and imperfections.

You can find more examples of our beauty retouching services on this page:
MaximImages High-end Beauty and Portrait Photography Retouching Services

A set of unique sumie artworks have been recently added to our archive.

All the painting in this collection are reproduction of original black ink on rice paper Japanese Sumi-e artworks released by the artist for commercial usage. We see these artworks as amazing design elements suitable for usage in clothing and product manufacturing and as unique, beautiful fine art works on their own.

The simplicity of the illustrations and their strong lines, contrast and composition, make them suitable for a variety of creative applications as stand alone art or as design elements in a layout of a publication.

Oriental in their nature, and organic in their essence, these images will please the eye of a person in any part of the world.

More of sumi-e artworks by the same artist below:

A beautiful set of images has been added to our archive with a young woman artist painting nude in a comfort of her home studio. The images have a soft romantic sensual feel and natural, unguarded eroticism.


On the same note, a portrait of a beautiful asian lady, Japanese sumi-e artist painting a Zen artwork in her studio. All the photographs in this series have strong composition elements, soft romantic and natural mood and purity.

All our photographs can be licensed for a variety of commercial and editorial usages. The images can also be purchased as art prints and customized to your liking. Please use the license calculator to estimate your usage fee.

More photographs from this series below: