How was it done? Tell me and Win a Prize!
I have an HDR in mind for this weeks screencast and I need some shooting time. So we are mixing things up and the next video will be out on Thursday. Anyway, I thought it was about time we had another little competition.
© Stuart Little 2010
This is a snapshot of Jool’s taken just before his Valentine’s Disco. I was graced with about 15 minutes of the model’s time, and I feel bribery will need to be employed in the future. It would have been easier to photograph Donald Trump! Now, you have to tell me what software I used and what techniques I applied and the person that guesses right, gets a prize!
© Photo JoJo 2010
Lets see if you have been paying attention. Nearly all of the techniques applied in this photo have appeared in screencasts over the past 6 months. So what you have to tell me is how it was light? which software I used? and which techniques were applied? Submit your answers in the comments below along with your name and email address and the winner will receive a copy of the Photo JoJo “Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas” book. Courtesy of the nice people at Photo JoJo.
Its packed full of some real cool things to do with your camera and a pair of scissors! and is a bit like Blue Peter for adults 
The closing date for entries is Wednesday 31st March. >
Nikon D700 – Rembrandt Strobed Lighting & Lightroom for the vignette.
The image was done in three layers.
One layer for the boy, shot with a digital camera cleaned up in Photoshop Image>Adjustment>Levels.
The back ground was done in the same manner.
The gray was another layer painted in Photoshop with an air-brush in the color grey (R108, G104, B100 on my uncalibrated iMac screen)
It looks like you used content aware scaling to extend the background on left side of the image…? Also maybe added a vignette effect.
Lomo effect? and an elliptical vignette used
Ezy box camera right , you can see a square catch light in Jool’s right eye.
Lightroom- adjusted exposure, white balance etc exported to photoshop applied vignette manually on a separate layer and set the opacity to taste. Finally sharpened on a separate layer after desaturated it and applying a high pass filter. Reduced opacity of sharpen layer to taste. Applied water mark saved back to lightroom.
Hi Stu,
Are you going to spill the beans on this? How was it done?