Self Portrait 2

Self Portrait 2
Originally uploaded by Anthony L. Solis.

It's easiest to just photograph myself to test things out.

For the studio lights lovers. There is a cheap flash behind me and to camera left that is snooted to avoid highliting my shirt. My 580ex is on the camera with a lightsphere on it (ETTL -3 stops) and a snoot around the sphere so it hits just the face and neck.

It's post-processed in Photoshop. I desaturated the reds and used curves to adjust the contrast. I duped the background and used surface blur to soften the skin. The opacity is lowered to 40% and the shadows and eyes are masked out. There's another curves layer to brighten just the eyes.

There are a lot of light set-up mistakes, most notably the side light is too high. Hey, this is why I practice on myself.