Post Processing

[MoinMoin]

All three pictures are great – I like them all, but especially the third one.

The second one is interesting because of the harder shadows in the face. The first looks very smoothe (? – oh, give me more vocabulary! ;-)).

On the third one, I like the posture better and the nice details in the background. Maybe there is some too much yellow light on his right shoulder?

All in all: I would like to get your tutorial about the making of for a try by myself ;-).

[Marko]

I like these shots too, neat effect! Shot 2 is super cool and shot 3 is also well done - I like shot 1 but I find it too red.

[kat]

I lilke the b&w. Nice pp!

[russpears]

The BW image seems stronger since it emphasizes the detail and texture of the subject and image giving more of an impact while simplifying the image-which always helps compositions without a distinct use of color. While there is little to suggest a story here, I would consider this a great portraiture piece and from this the subject himself seems interesting enough to carry it past this too thought the pose is a bit too conventional for me. The window’s stick that holds it open seems too distracting too. The color version does not contribute much more than a confusing color palette being neither warm/cool or having a viable color scheme. You did do a great job at capturing good shadow detail without killing the highlight detail much-though comparing the original to the post processing would be nice. And a short lighting set up would be nice however I would like to guess here:

[INDENT]Beauty dish camera left and just outside of the frame at 3 stops over ambient and you flagged to cut the light on the lower part of the subject? The nice edge lighting might be from the white wall or street lamp but I believe it is a one light setup and you made use of some dodging and burning on the arm but mostly on the face since this is less believable. Am I close?[/INDENT]

[scorpio_e]

Beauty dish camera left and just outside of the frame at 3 stops over ambient ( 100 % correct !!! ) and you flagged to cut the light on the lower part of the subject ( NOPE no flag) ? The nice edge lighting might be from the white wall or street lamp but I believe it is a one light setup( You got it !!! one light and edge light from the white wall) and you made use of some dodging and burning on the arm but mostly on the face since this is less believable ( No dodging and burning at all). Am I close?

Where are you at in Jersey?

I work in Edison !!!

[scorpio_e]

I like these shots too, neat effect! Shot 2 is super cool and shot 3 is also well done - I like shot 1 but I find it too red.

Thanks so much for the comments!!!!!

[russpears]

I live in Montclair, Work in Ridgefield Park-Prudent Publishing.

[Ray]

I like the first one the best and would be interested to hear how you did the post on the two color images. The only two things that I think could make this image better would be to crop out the diagonal line of the window frame and to lighten the legs just a bit. I tried a crop, hope you don't mind.