Help needed on creating this effect in Photoshop

A lot of that has been done with lighting at the shoot. You can see the reflection of a softbox (I think ) in her glasses. The most powerful light is from the right, as you can see from the shadow. Then there's fill from the opposite direction and possibly something low-level from that side - see the reflection on her hip. Other than that...try not to clip fingers and toes, and get your assistant to move those strands of hair away from her face. Work in post look like a bit of Gaussian blur and general flattening of the contrast & saturation, but most of the work was before the click of the shutter, I reckon.

If you put some of your shots up, you'll probably get some good suggestions, but it's impossible to judge without seeing what you have to work with.
 
Jon, are you looking at a different picture?

That's not a softbox, it's a California Sunbounce. The light on the right is 6pm sunlight. There's no blurring in the shot, that's just aperture.

OP: To achieve that overall look, you can drop a yellow overlay in photoshop and set it to a colour blending layer, or even a colour dodge/burn to increase saturation in the blacks. Or you can mess around with split toning in Lightroom to drop some yellow/red into the highlights and shadows. Or you can drop a colour balance layer on and move the shadows and highlights towards yellow and red, then increase contrast.

To get it to look like that though, you're going to have had to shoot in very bright, red sunset light from behind the model, and you're going to have had to have a bounce reflecting the same colour light back. Or have done it with gelled strobes.
 
Take a look for some of the vintage effect actions that you can dig up from around the web, that may get you somewhere near to what you want
 
London Headshots said:
Jon, are you looking at a different picture?

That's not a softbox, it's a California Sunbounce. The light on the right is 6pm sunlight. There's no blurring in the shot, that's just aperture.

OP: To achieve that overall look, you can drop a yellow overlay in photoshop and set it to a colour blending layer, or even a colour dodge/burn to increase saturation in the blacks. Or you can mess around with split toning in Lightroom to drop some yellow/red into the highlights and shadows. Or you can drop a colour balance layer on and move the shadows and highlights towards yellow and red, then increase contrast.

To get it to look like that though, you're going to have had to shoot in very bright, red sunset light from behind the model, and you're going to have had to have a bounce reflecting the same colour light back. Or have done it with gelled strobes.
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See the bit where I wrote "I think"? ;) Point remains: The work was mostly done at the shoot, not in post.
 
You can get pretty close by taking the contrast all the way down in camera raw then adding a split toning yellow/orange ish in the highlights and a magenta/red ish in the shadows.
 
This is probably the closest I've came to getting it. Obviously this shot I took doesn't have the same sunlight as the photo you used as an example.

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posiview said:
As an aside, what's that on the upper part of her left thigh...black blob?

Cheers.
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Don't know. I can't really see what you are talking about.

Could be something left over from where the text was erased or something though?!?!
 
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