Isaac in a pose based on "The Statue Of The Crane" in one of his forms, along with a wooden replica of a Chinese broadsword for extra effect.
I have no studio space or modeling lights, so we used an overcast sky and the trunk of a very large pine tree as a backdrop.
-Handheld, Manual mode
-Fill-flash
-RGB Curve
-Isolate Green Channel to Grayscale document
-Create mask for background
-Blur background through mask
-Clone out some stray grass and facial blotches
-Resize
-Crop
-Touch-up blur with Blur tool
-Touch-up BG with Dodge/Burn tools
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 6
-Increase Canvas Size
-Fill Canvas with bilinear gradient
-Grayscale Curve to adjust gradient
-4 pixel black stroke around outside
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 142KB
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Good shot but the borders are not working for me. Also, the attempt at a shallow DOF through Photoshop isn't the cleanest. I like the choice to go b/w. Good luck.
Two things made me give this a really low score. First off, the post processing blurring of the backround is really sub standard, it´s really obvious and I always reccomend doing the blurring in camera if possible. Secondly the gradient "pillars" or whatever it is on the sides just throw me off. There is actually a third thing that bothers me, this seems to be shot outdoors when the challenge says studio shot but I´ll give you the benefit of the doubt since I can´t know for sure.
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