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I am having a riot of a time watching the gals comment on the one that he is using as his Facebook profile...

It's fun to shoot people who have that "look" - like they stopped by on their way to a medieval movie premier.

Shot on the SLR/c, with the 70-200 f2.8 and 15-30 mm, all natural light except for the first one (lit with small softbox and wirelessly triggered strobe just above and to the front of his face.









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Thanks... Not too much time on detail processing, but as far as color/exp on the last post goes:

1) The biggest effect here is a high-red channel mixer blended in hard light. Some masking (mostly used on skin). Curves.

2) Sepia ICC profile in PD with Custom Looks add on. This yields super low contrast - corrected by another channel mixer layer in hard light. Curves.

3) Channel mixer - honestly don't remember the setting. Curves. Some masking.
greatphoto said:
Great post processing on the last few, can you fill us in.
Cheers
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I shoot on an SLR/c (it is a Kodak-made camera with a traditional Canon EF lens mount - kind of like a slow 1ds). Everything is done in RAW - which in the SLR/c is actually a propietary format called DCS.

The software I use to process the DCS raw files to TIFF files is called Kodak PhotoDesk - and it has a sub-program plugin called Custom Looks. It is nothing more than, say, processing your Canon RAW files on a slightly higher (or lower, depending on the look) contrast, or color saturation, etc, setting.

The majority of the "look" that the images have though is careful manipulation of Channel Mixing layers... You can only do so much in a RAW processing engine - so photoshop is the main thing (besides having a sellable image to start with).

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Not crazy about the 2nd one - I like the look but he looks a little OOF and lacking energy. The rest are cool - I bet he looks even cuter when he smiles - the sepia one you can see it a little but I think a good smile shot is hard to capture but really amazing when it comes out right.

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It's kind of funny - I absolutely agree with you about the 2nd shot (my fault for not pulling for a better expression) - but as is characteristic for this forum, the shot that got picked on the most was the absolute favorite... The guy got raves over the image like crazy.
BellaBull8 said:
Not crazy about the 2nd one - I like the look but he looks a little
OOF and lacking energy. The rest are cool - I bet he looks even cuter
when he smiles - the sepia one you can see it a little but I think a
good smile shot is hard to capture but really amazing when it comes
out right.

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Don't assume. It makes an a** out of you and me. ;-)
http://flickr.com/photos/bellabull8/
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