justmejoebyrd wrote in post #4475002
Love both shots, the BW conversion was great...care to share any of those PP tips?
I'll say this much. Attention to detail is EVERYTHING. There isn't really a single neat trick that goes into my shots, instead what you see is alot of work put into individual components, particularly this means working with alot of layers. A portrait I do will typically have between 8 and 15 layers I'm working with, and that's done to selectively work on parts of the image. For instance, I used an entirely different contrast curve on the sweatshirt, the skin, the eyes, the beard, the hair and the eyebrows in the black and white image. That's done because the contrast that looks "perfect" for the skin for instance may cause the beard to get burned out in shadow. It becomes important to work on them seperately so that all the components come together nicely. It's alot like how portraitists would take the time to dodge and burn seperate parts of the image to get a good final product, only this way you can work with brightness as well as contrast.
If you don't already know, learn layer masks. I almost never do a shot without using them.
Flo wrote in post #4475206The conversion is dandy........I am still not a fan of the ringlites..just can't wrap my brain around them.lol.but everything else is way cool!
Thanks Flo. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the catchlights, although it's the only way to get that particular lighting effect, which I do know that I love.
It's a useful thing to add to the arsenal anyway 
