Had a look online at some Lou Reed portraits, noticed he liked these high-contrast B&W portraits. Often appeared with dark glasses and leather jacket, so sought to emulate that. Hopefully wont get hit too hard for yet another self-portrait.
Lighting Just a single flash shot through a white umbrella. Nothing more than that. Some of the light bouncing off a nearby wall probably provided some fill light too.
Processing:
- Import into LR3
- Export to CS6
- Apply CEP4 Pro Contrast Filter
- Convert CEP4 layer to B&W with SEP2: Low Key Preset
- Apply CEP4 Dark Contrast Filter
- Apply SEP2 Low Key Filter
- Levels Adjustment Layer
- Send back to LR3
- Global adjustment to Contrast and Clarity
- Curves Adjustment
- Dodging and Burning
- Sharpening
- Save for web
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