Lighting was with a Nikon SB-20 flash I held in my hand and fired into a 43" silver umbrella about 3 feet from my head, I had to time the pushing of the 'test' button with the shutter speed. The crinkly textured background is actually a paper lamp shade that's behind the chair.
Lowered brightness, raised contrast, cross processed a little bit. Desaturated a little, pimped the eyes a little, added a strange frame texture thing around the outside for a border(which I think should be legal), dodged and burned, convert to 8 bit jpeg and sfw.
It's not a stunning image but as it's my very first raw conversion I feel an affinity for it so am not too bothered what it gets in score; above a 6.5 would be nice but i'm not holding my breath.
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