About the Image(s)

This is an image of an old man I captured during one of our morning photo-walks a few years back. Scouting around for pictures, we came across a small shed where they were manually splitting logs for firewood. This man who showed the toll on his wiry body and the withered face, was initially reluctant, but posed for a few pictures. He was seated against the light, and all we could capture were backlit pictures of his face.

Despite the image begging to be 'trashed' due to lack of details, poor lighting etc etc, I gave it some life in PS. I mainly used Nik detail extraction and Nik HDR to bring out all the details in the image, and then applied a color overlay to the background.