Self portrait looking.... like a vampire

[Dan Cattermole]

Plenty of PP done on this shoot. Off cam flash and a red flash diffuser.
PP included colour desaturation, tone curve adjustment, selected sharpening, selected exposure adjustment (especially the eye).

Although the unusual angle to match the unusual character, I'm quite pleased with it.

Hope you like guys

 

[Hamish Gill]

Only on my iPhone, but that looks to be really quite good matey!
So how did you get the effect in your eye?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

You nailed it Dan - you'll be mobbed by screaming Twilight fans when you next go to Tesco's

 

[Pete Askew]

Great effect Dan but I'd just clone out that highlight on the nose - it draws the eye I find.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

thanks pete, I'll have a go............

 

[Dan Cattermole]

hahaha!!! I've just seen it...... How did I miss that!!!??

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Thats better I hope!! well 'spotted' . lol. Thanks pete

 

[Darren Bradley]

Nice job! Love the effect on the eye.

 

[Pete Askew]

Spot on (or rather off), Dan. You need to look at SilverFX Pro. It gives you control points that you can use to give localised control of contrast, brightness etc. Perfect for this sort of thing.

 

[Hamish Gill]

how much better is it than the local adjust in lightroom pete?

 

[Pete Askew]

It's in a different league! Did you not try the demo version yet? For point control it is very useful (eg the eyes) but you can alos expand and 'combine' the zones to give you control very similar to 'real' printing using MG (ie tone and grade).

 

[Hamish Gill]

no ... got distracted by the demo of c1 ... im scared to demo silver fx ... as i know ill want it but dont have any spare cash!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Where can I get the demo from?? Might give it a go, but for now..... Lightroom and 'pete for detail' is working a treat!!!

 

[Pete Askew]

http://www.niksoftware.com/

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Thanks pete. I'll have a look when I get home!!