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01/12/2009 10:05:58 AM · #1 |
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01/12/2009 10:11:30 AM · #2 |
Don't hate me for saying alot of it is really the lighting. Anyway, the most interesting part to me about the image is the lighting. There is the main light camera right that gives the light on the face and then that cool backlight/spill from the blown background which gives the highlights on the sides.
I would guess that contrast was added in post. I find you have to bring the blacks down in curves when you are doing this kind of strong high key lighting (some of the light winds up coming straight into the lens). Maybe a soft light layer with some high pass sharpening. Maybe a little desaturation, or that could be natural from the backlighting.
Cool shot.
Liza
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01/12/2009 12:37:54 PM · #3 |
The wrinkles on the jacket, the shadow of the spectacles, the light on the face, all show a main light from above and slightly to the right. The relative softness and transparency of the shadows indicates a fairly strong fill light from behind and just above the camera, or possibly in front of it and just below it. The rim lighting, which is pretty subtle, is probably spill from the very brightly-lit background. The effect will be finished off in PP to balance all the tones.
That's my take on it anyway.
R.
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