Peter Figen Offline Upload & Sell: On
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GoodEgg wrote:
Great lighting (I'm still having trouble getting a good backdrop light like you've done) and absolutely love the sepia tone.
Thank you. There was no separate background light, just some spill from the large soft box. What makes it look like a background light is the vignetting, which is done in two stages. First I separate the subject from the background using Select > Subject and then refine that using the Quick Mask tool fixing the edges, then floating that up to a new layer and applying a vignette with a Curves Adj. Layer through a roughly circular or maybe ovalized circular mask with a 1000 pixel blur on the selection, and do that Under the new subject layer. Then I'll do the whole thing again on top of everything which adds to the first vignette and adds some to the subject as well and helps me emphasize what I want and de-emphasize what I don't. Plus I wanted him close enough to the background that I'd get some of his shadow on the background as well.
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