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thecivvie · 06-06-2010 05:49PM

I like this picture, just the light and contrasts

keps · 06-06-2010 05:56PM

Deleting stuff off my computer 2day and found this- hope I didn't post b4 - if so it was done in my 'Red Wine Period (Art Beaujolais Nouveau)'.:D

Effects · 06-06-2010 06:14PM

dryadssaddle · 06-06-2010 06:16PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Was the light close to your subjects face or did you shine it from far away? Did you shine it from underneath, to the side or directly in their face?

Sorry for the questions but it's an excellent photo so I'm curious.

Awww thanks

it was taken with the light to the left of the face and a distance of about 3 or 4 feet. i used grease proof paper as a diffuser on the torch held on with elastic bands.

keps · 06-06-2010 06:21PM

dryadssaddle wrote: »

Awww thanks it was taken with the light to the left of the face and a distance of about 3 or 4 feet. i used grease proof paper as a diffuser on the torch held on with elastic bands.

In a recession most of us can't afford these expensive photo accessories:)

LionelNashe · 06-06-2010 06:24PM

Kintarō Hattori · 06-06-2010 06:41PM

keps wrote: »

In a recession most of us can't afford these expensive photo accessories:)

About €10 delivered and as I mentioned, stupidly bright.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30987

Pivot_Al · 06-06-2010 07:12PM

06-06-2010 07:45PM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

About €10 delivered and as I mentioned, stupidly bright.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30987

Just purchased one. Looks like a grand little thing. Nicely priced, too. Cheers for the link!

Tried my luck with a self-portrait effort the other night;

I'm an ugly bastard, but I'm pleased with how it came out. Had to give it a fair bit of PP'ing to make it look a bit rougher/harsher than it originally was, but I'm pleased. I'm getting a guy to make me a Kane mask that I should get in the coming weeks, and I want to try and do a very similar portrait shot to the one above, but with the mask.

I'm hoping it'll come out looking a bit sinister or such.

Kintarō Hattori · 06-06-2010 08:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Just purchased one. Looks like a grand little thing. Nicely priced, too. Cheers for the link!

Sounds odd but grease the threads when you get the torch otherwise they'll wear away.

achtungbarry · 06-06-2010 09:04PM

101001 wrote: »

So my first attempt at mimicking achtungbarry's style. So i hdr' the image (a photo i took to HDR). Lashed into photoshop, i'd been wondering how you got that lined effect. It looks like the photo's outlines have been inked. My vain attempt at this was to use the glowing edges filter, desaturate, invert then colour burn (probably should've just deleted the white). Colour burned a texture on top, bit of gausian blur and thats all she wrote. Shouldve maybe vignetted the texture? Am I close?

How flattered am I?

Great first attempt at using textures. Well done. I like it.

Personally I tend to resize my textured photo to the exact same size as the main image. I then drag the texture on top of the main photo and blend using overlay mode. I often duplicate the texture layer to increase the effect then mask some ares if too much detail is lost. I also tend to use a strong vignette. I'll put a proper tutorial on my site soon. In Tunisia at the moment............... where flickr is blocked :mad:. Will get cracking on tutorial when I get back. I am also using my time here to take sample shots for other tutorials.

I'll leave it there as typing on an Arabic keyboard is tiring.