Alpha Man

For my department's presentation next week. I work in Data Forensics and Electronic Discovery. This seems fitting.

 

Strobist info:

SB 28 into soft box held above the head.

SB 27 into umbrella camera right with cto gel

Camera set to tungsten.

 

Post:

Phew, where to begin. Started in Lightroom with cropping, sharpening, levels and contrast. Edited in CS3 with a few dodge and burns. Then added a gradient fill layer of black to darken the edges. Then I added a curves layer to bust the shadows a bunch, added a mask and used the gradient tool to leave only the ALPHA brightened. Then I ran a high pass contrast to those layers. Then, I ran the Photomatix HDR plug in and got a nice hdr look. Then i desaturated the ALPHA area a little due to color blow outs. Then one more sharpen.

 

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Uploaded on June 21, 2008
Taken on June 20, 2008