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lighting...contrast...

from edward kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu)
I find it amusing that we can use photoshop to create photojobs pretty easily.

Note these two images.

The after image is contrasty to the point of bad taste, but there are some elements of it that I like a lot. The contrast in the hair is one. The other is getting the eyes to 'pop' like that.

I'm assuming that there is some way to get photographs done in the studio closer and closer to that effect. My guess is that carefully applied light is the solution.

So my question is, how does one get:

1) Interesting hair to get an almost ridiculous amount of contrast? 2) Eyes to pop out at you (by jacking up contrast) 3) Do 1 & 2 without making the rest of the face look completely washed out?

Mind you, I'm not looking for the "holy high key effect". But I'd like to get more emphasis of hair and eyes in my photos.

(posted 8106 days ago)

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