Retouching for Entertainment

Any thoughts on the retouching process for this shot? I'm guessing here, but this looks like a lot of dodging and burning... thoughts?

splitfyre wrote in post #11354930
Any thoughts on the retouching process for this shot? I'm guessing here, but this looks like a lot of dodging and burning... thoughts?

Perhaps some D&B. Looks like maybe LucisArt or one of the Topaz applications might have been used.

I think lighting is the main thing in that shot. There's at least four lights in that shot. There's one either side, behind, for the highlights at the side of the head. There's a main light, maybe a fill light. There's a hair light and a background light or two.

The processing looks like it could have a bit of orange split toning, and something's been done with the contrast. Not sure about the rest.

Like Tim said a lot of shots that looks pretty sweet are all because of lighting. Processing is aided by the lighting.