Mark B. Grit Portrait
A friend of mine recently sent her husband to be my subject during a workshop I taught at Precision Camera, in Austin, Texas. We were teaching another "Pop 2 Post" workshop which focuses on various techniques from lighting styles through to the final steps in Lightroom and Photoshop. This piece was a gritty hyper real portrait. I really love this split lighting for this effect because it feels like a movie poster, comic, styled piece. Without feeling like a fake sketch or drawing, it just has that punchy value that is still photographic but illustrative.
Shot with two 24x36" softboxes on 1/4 power 4' either side of the subject and slightly behind him. Then processed in Lightroom and Photoshop. The true detail comes from using Channel Mixer in Photoshop, reducing the constant tone for the base values, and then boosting the blue channel while in monochromatic mode. The blue channel usually holds the most detail and so this way it really brings out every pore and hair. His denim jacket really helped sell this technique because the lighting this way really exaggerates every fold in the material.
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Mark B. Grit Portrait
A friend of mine recently sent her husband to be my subject during a workshop I taught at Precision Camera, in Austin, Texas. We were teaching another "Pop 2 Post" workshop which focuses on various techniques from lighting styles through to the final steps in Lightroom and Photoshop. This piece was a gritty hyper real portrait. I really love this split lighting for this effect because it feels like a movie poster, comic, styled piece. Without feeling like a fake sketch or drawing, it just has that punchy value that is still photographic but illustrative.
Shot with two 24x36" softboxes on 1/4 power 4' either side of the subject and slightly behind him. Then processed in Lightroom and Photoshop. The true detail comes from using Channel Mixer in Photoshop, reducing the constant tone for the base values, and then boosting the blue channel while in monochromatic mode. The blue channel usually holds the most detail and so this way it really brings out every pore and hair. His denim jacket really helped sell this technique because the lighting this way really exaggerates every fold in the material.
@lifebypixels