11.28
Portrait Photography – The Photographer
Today I had the pleasure of working with one of my favorite models. We thought that it would be interesting to shoot the subject as if the subject were the photographer, hence the name – The Photographer.
The images below were shot today on a tripod in my make-shift studio (okay, so it’s really my living room) and some household light bulbs on a stick (not really on a stick but I did have two 60 watt bulbs perched precariously upon my vacuum cleaner). These image have what I have read as being called the ‘David Hill Effect’ applied to them. I am not comparing my work to David Hill’s or anything as I find his work amazingly inspirational.
I do not have much experience with portrait photography either. I have plenty of self portraits and many photos of my family but I haven’t really tried to stage a shot with lighting and all that. Anyway….that’s what you will see below.
The Photographer Image 01 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 02 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 03 (click for larger view)
The Photographer Image 04 (click for larger view)
Below are the steps I used in Photoshop to simulate the David Hill Effect.
Assuming there is an image open in Photoshop….
duplicate the layer
Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> set at 4.0
set the layer to use Vivid Light
flatten the layers
duplicate the layer
Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> set at 9.0
set the layer to use Color
set the layer opacity to 40%
flatten the layers
duplicate the layer
Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur
set at 8.0
Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise
set at 3%
Layer -> Layer Mask -> Hide All
flatten the layers
Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask
Amount 100%, Radias 98ish, Threshold 0 (you have to play around with these settings)
The process above was not made up by me and I don’t really know if this is the ‘official process’ either but it works for me so there you go.
