Alas, poor Erik. I know him well (oh and a self portrait)

[elTwitcho]

I've left my studio gear at a friend's house two hours west, so unfortunately I've been stuck with plumbing the archives to practice my post processing on. Here's two shots, from a while ago that I just processed. I'm particularly happy with the shot of Erik (in the red) but I'm interested to hear what everyone's comments are.

http://www.pbase.com/eltwitcho/image/69619428.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/eltwitcho/image/69597828.jpg

[codex0]

These look great overall - the first has a little bit of the red cast that seems indicative of an overlay and/or luminance blended color mixing layer, as well as some slight haloing around the left side of his face that I seem to get when I use an overly soft brush on my burning layers. I like the treatment of the tones in these images - this is something I've been working on as well :).

[White_Marten]

I think it's great, your pp is amazing!

[fi20100]

I have to agree :) You really know how to get a very special mood in you PP :)

[elTwitcho]

Thanks alot guys. I'm getting to a point where I'm really starting to be able to control the effect and bring out more of the original lighting than I could originally do before. I'm pretty happy with the effect thus far at any rate.

http://www.pbase.com/eltwitcho/image/69631646.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/eltwitcho/image/69633296.jpg

With any luck I'll get my equipment dropped off tommorow (left it at someone's house because it was too much to take to a friend's house afterwards) and be able to put this to use on some new shots.

codex0 - Thanks for the insight man. The red is just the colour balance, something I've been playing around with a bit since colour management is something I'm really trying to experiment with lately as it's been neglected up until now in my workflow. I did fix up the halo around the jawline but it might take some time for pbase to update, I appreciate you catching that for me though.

And yeah, the processing is more or less the same, just with a few tweaks here and there :)

[Stav_98]

Crackin'! :o)