I took this photo on Tuesday for a photo contest entitled “Victory” and I’ve titled this shot Victories Are Often Hollow. I wanted to have a very in-your-face gritty dark yet introspective self-portrait, and I think I pulled it off. I’ll take you through how I went through the post-processing on this photo from Lightroom into Photoshop as well as a bit of what was going through my mind.
Here’s my before and after shot:
I’ve received a lot of questions lately about my post-processing on this series of photos. Specifically how did I get that skin tone? Here’s my process.
This is pretty long-overdue, and I apologize. I wanted to show you guys how I got that cool effect on Daniel’s fashion shoot. Here’s my RAW, straight out of the camera photo brought in to lightroom.
As you can see, I specifically lit the scene with this post-processing technique in mind. If you take any old-photo and go through these steps you’ll get something stylistically the same, but it won’t have the same impact as something designed to be made this way. I did this by split-lighting my subject with hard lights that had no modifiers to soften the light. In this case two speedlight flashes at 3 and 9 o’clock to my subject.
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