I also broadcasted this shoot live on my Facebook profile, so feel free to add me as I will be hosting more live shoots in the future. And then do some subtle, final sharpening, with the masking slider used to keep it restrained.Īll in all, I am really happy with the possibilities the Light Blaster opens up. I only used it briefly, but there are so many different ways it could be used that I feel it is definitely worth owning. In Lightroom I always add some clarity, just a touch. Once completed in Photoshop, I then moved back into Lightroom where I added my final touches. I then sharpened the image using a high end retouching sharpening. It needed a little extra styling so I painted in some light leaks, more subtle than usual with a brush on a screen blend mode. On top of that was a levels, layers adjustment for extra pop. This is something I do to enhance the painterly feel. From there I added a Hue-saturation adjustment and put some blues into the blacks. At first I thought a lens flare would be cool, but it didn’t seem to work with this image so I settled for some particles from the Raw exchange.Īfterwards I added a little more smoke in for atmosphere. I then duplicated the dodge and burn group, around 3 times, really making Martin stand out, and giving him a painterly/illustrated feel. I was mostly dodging and burning for styling, which meant going over the lights and darks. I then moved back into Photoshop and did some clean up with the healing brush on a blank layer.įrom there I took it straight into dodge and burn. I upped the exposure and shadows a little, just to get some detail pop in there. So first off I made some small adjustments in camera raw. I have created a speed edit for you all, but here is a quick run down of what went into the editing process. This really didn’t take long to edit compared to my usual work. I white flagged the images that stood out, I then whittled them down to one final image, which I believe had the potential to be cool! Which was this bad boy below…. Once in lightroom, I did my usual selection process. These images had a real stylish/cinematic 80s feel, and we all know how much I like 80s movies, so I settled on the images from this slide to edit. So I switched slides and off we popped again.(I use the metalic “pro” slides) I liked the first slide, but I saw one earlier that caught my eye, it reminded me of some kind of Tokyo inspired symbol from an eighties movie…don’t ask me why, my brain works in mysterious ways. The settings were Iso: 100, F5, 1/125 shutter speed. Without changing any of the settings we fired through one slide. Pleased with the effect, it seemed very noir-ish, we decided it was time to shoot for real. I then turned up the flashgun to its highest setting and took some test shots……of the test shots! This is getting out of hand now! Haha. Knowing that the citi 600 would far outpower the flash gun, I set it to to its lowest setting. I like to use complimentary colors when shooting with gels, although you do not have to. The portable flash gun which was being used to fire the Light Blaster had some orange gel sheet over the end of it. I had a Pixapro citi 600, with a 150″ octa, gelled with some blue generic gel sheet from Amazon. Lightingīy now you should know that I like to pre-plan my shoots, so as usual I knew exactly what I was going to do when Martin got to the house. My idea was to dress Martin up in the costume and create some stylish/cinematic test shots. As most sane people, I have a S.W.A.T costume laying around. So it wasn’t long before I got my good friend Martin to come over for a test shoot with the Light Blaster.
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