Don't really have high hopes for this one; I just wanted to participate. Shooting started around 10:30 PM on deadline day and I'm writing these notes at 11:30 PM.
"Esquire" because I'm a lawyer, or, if you will, I'm licensed to practice law. It's something I'm still getting used to. Not that you can tell either of those things from this photo. I'm just lousy with my titles.
Lighting: good old clip-on lamp bounced off of silver sun shade; white foam core on other side to soften shadows
PP: Crop, Topaz Adjust, vignette, some HDR-type adjustments to highlights that were too hot, desat surroundings, some selective blur, mucho selective sharpen on the eyes, more vignetting, blueify my eyes, that's more or less it
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Pleased to have done well! I got a question about the lighting setup, so I put together this rough diagram:
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all clean cut and stuff. wouldn't have picked this out as you. glad to see you're still around. weren't you a west-coast kid before? PA's a loooong way from Cali, my man.
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