Ian Chantler
About the Image(s)
I am being a bit self indulgent this month with this image apologies its to advertise the fact this image is one of 6 of my images on display in an exhibition at the prestigious Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead which is part of the Liverpool Museums Group the exhibition is called Cynosure and myself and 4 other local photographers were invited to exhibit our work alongside renowned specialist long exposure photographer Neil Hulme the exhibition opened on June 30th and runs until September 16th this is a link to the press release from the Williamson https://williamsonartgallery.org/portfolio/cynosure/
As for the image I was asked to be guest photographer at Birmingham Horror Con earlier this year and a guy I have photographed before at many evens and in many guises was there as his latest creation Julian Slink Andy is always so generous with his time I shot him against a large black curtain as I thought it suited the mood of his character and was one of my favourite images from the event.
How I did it camera Canon 5D Mk III lens Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM flashgun Canon 430 EX II fitted with a Rogue Flashbender 2 ISO 800 f13 1/200s Raw file opened in Photoshop and basic adjustments made image converted to mono on an adjustment layer using a gradient map contrast adjusted dodging and burning applied sharpened using a high pass filter a vignette added and a 2 pixel stroke all on seperate layers
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9 comments posted
Many thanks for your kind words, the object at the bottom is the top of his very elaborate walking cane I agree it is a distraction thank you for the crop advice and as always taken onboard.   Posted: 08/06/2018 13:58:50