this is from a photoshoot for my best friend Jon before he moves to arizona. he wanted photos so that he could later look back on this time in his life. i loved the textures in this photo and thought itd be a good entry for my very first freestudy. i hope i dont do horribly.
strobist:
speedlite @ 1/2 just camera left at chest level
speedlite @ 1/1 camera right @ 7' angled down 45 deg
post:
cropped
color correction
topaz adjust
neutral grey softlight layer to create shadows/highlights
contrast on eyes
topaz detail for tones
minor cloning on face and under eyes
dodge and burn on tattoos
USM @ 200/.3/0
USM @ 10/250/0
gaussian blur on background
nik effects selective contrast
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Thanks so much Melethia. its really encouraging to hear support from talented photographers like Love and yourself. i was hoping to do a little better ( break 6 possibly) but i like how the photo came out and im glad to hear that other people like it too :)
ps: jon loved them. i have several more in my portfolio on here. even ones without his hat.
Woefully underrated. I suspect it may be in part those who simply don't like tattoos because the photography is really quite good here. Nice work with the strobist setup and very good fine-tuning in your processing. I suspect Jon really rather likes it, yes? That's way better than a score here.
Thanks so much for the kind votes on my first free study! :) i agree about the hat but it really wasnt my choice for the photo. this was a shoot i did for my best friend jon before he moved to arizona. he wanted a way to remember this part of his life.
ok...I'm an old fart and I don't see the appeal of tattoo's...every monkey to their own limb...but I will say that the tattoo's are very nicely defined, not like most of the others that I see...it's only me...don't take it personal
I wonder if this might look good in B&W. Perhaps a touch more contrast would help him to pop out. I would like to see how it looks with the tatooed hand covering the umarked one. Overall nice portrait.7
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