Alpha
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Thanks for the comments everyone!
I respect your opinions, max, but for clarification, Dave Hill's images are much smoother, and would be impossible without strobes. Every single one of his photographs with his signature look on his website is in color.
I was not trying to emulate Dave Hill, Joey Lawrence, or anyone for that matter. If I were, it would look more plasticly and would be in color with at least a single key light and would have kickers on each side of him. I recognized the advantages of the HDR process into revealing more detail in landscapes and cityscapes and applied it to portraits. I've never seen an HDR portrait photograph processes similar to what i've done to this extreme.
This is like selective coloring, some like it, some hate it.
You're absolutely right about Hill, and I meant my commentary on the style to be separate from your shot itself, which I think is good. He does indeed require strobes, and does minimal HDR as far as I know. I understand what you're going for now, though I don't quite think you've pulled it off. I have seen similar results from the Dragan process without the use of HDR. Perhaps it is possible for you to truly step-up the effect by combining the existing processing workflow with HDR, but I don't think it's come across quite so extraordinarily here, if you understand what I mean.