Seth Lemmons Photography :: Before and After

Lightroom - not much

Changed temp from 4150 to 4644 to warm the image some

Sharpened using:

- amount: 79

- radius: 0.6

- detail: 25

- masking: 54

 

Photoshop

- Made a new layer and did spot heal brush work to fix any skin blemishes

- Cut out the subject using Fluid Mask 3 + some brushwork in a mask

- Made a new background by filling with gray and then layering on a white-to-transparent gradient centered around the subject's face and then set the layer to 49% opacity

- To mitigate the banding lines I merged the background layers and added noise

- I ran Calvinize at 100% (Calvinize is a technique from Calvin Hollywood)

- High details layer brushed onto the skin and hair at about 30% if I recall

- Totally Rad Action : Yin Yang -- darkened the shadows on the subjects muscles at about 10% opacity. Lightened the highlights on the subject's body at about 10 to 15% and brightened the subject's face camera left at about 60%

- Ran Totally Rad Action : Shadow Separator to bring out some detail in the highlights and set the layer opacity to 54%

- Added a Vibrance layer and reduced the vibrance of the image to -32

 

The image is uploaded at full resolution to show detail in case you're interested.

Done