1920's style

I like the slightly sepia'd one the best!

Just a quick couple of edits. Boosted the exposure a bit, and cooled the image's white balance down some. Thusly making the colors pop more and help separate your subject from the background more.

the lights i have are about as bright as a candle. i need some more expensive ones. only the second time that i have done this kind of thing. i wasted many years thinking about it. i'm the kind of bloke who waits for someone to go first and no one ever did. so i have jumped in and right now i'm drowning. everything i do is hope for the best. so any advice is welcome.converseman thanks for your in put. and everyone else thank you too. hope to get better soon.

you did a good job converseman i will save them and try to copy what you did.

Just offered some cc. Meant no offense. I think these are really good you just need to reposition your lights a bit. Like converseman said try a bit higher and maybe a bit closer. You can bump up in post.

no offence taken i need all the help i can get thanks jenirose

Nice shot, but below is the look I'd go for personally...

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interesting rhys216 i'm trying to work out how you did it. was it a filter.

charliechuck wrote in post #12674151
interesting rhys216 i'm trying to work out how you did it. was it a filter.

No unfortunately it's not a filter, I used curves, colour balance, then a dark grey colour fill layer to reduce contrast, and lastly I used the noise filter.

curves are not something i know much about rhys216. i will have to look into it, you have made me think i'm missing something. i like vary much what you have done. i have made a pigs ear of another photo. i am putting the before and after up. to find out how other people would do there stuff. and with a bit of luck i will learn some more cool stuff.