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 p.1 #8 · #275: Breaking a Habit | |
Steven Roberts wrote:
It is just a wonderful execution. I see another Nikon man? Your work is great and another person I would like to chat with about how you get the results... love this shot.
Steve R.
Hey thank you Steve! Yep I'm a Nikon user, for digital at least. 
For this shot I had two light sources, a 60W desk lamp at table height on the right, (with the bottom of it's light fall-off just above the TV tray holding the keyboard) and a flashlight just left of the camera to illuminate the keyboard. I then knelt down next to the TV tray, quickly tripped the 2sec timer with a remote and held as still as possible. 
Then I opened in photoshop, and extracted myself and the keyboard and table, replacing the background with pure black. (For extracting I used the polygonal lasso tool to select, then made a layer mask with the resulting selection. Then added a new black layer underneath) Zooming in to a high percentile I went over the entire thing with a soft-edged brush altering the layer mask where necessary. Then I converted to black and white and added a strong sepia tone with curves. I made a few minor contrast adjustments, resized, sharpened and called it done.
Glad you like my work!
Jason
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