I understand the lighting, but I don't understand how he processes this to look like a renaissance painting. Thanks http://raise-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Freddy_Fabris_5.jpg
I thought I did post a link to the image. Someone changed it to a link to a website that showed several images and not the one I was interested in the processing of.
what Joe said Plus: I´d say: high clarity value very high noise reduction (max) desaturate Here is a quick try with an image of a recent shoot
hmmm. Very nice photo, first of all, and I'd say you got the processing look I am aiming for. Now time for me to practice some. Thank you.
Very desaturated look, fairly low contrast. There are some Lightoom presets that offer this look. It is an interesting waty to subtly reference olkd-time Renaissance paintings that have developed a horrible patina of age over the originally brighter paintwork.
I have to keep practicing, because I can't get any that I've played with to look like either the original above or Photo1x1's. Thank you, Derrel.
Try this one. It only affects a few parameters. Then play with exposure, contrast, highlights and shadow to adjust the look of your images. In general this style works best with rather high contrast low key images. Also: the bigger the resolution of your camera, the less effective the preset will be. You could export it as 16bit tiff and then import it again in Lightroom and apply the same preset again to increase the effect.
I think some local dodge/burn, a global reduction of Vibrance, a global increase of Clarity, and some local sharpening in Photoshop using the Sharpening tool was done. In Photoshop the Un-Sharp Mask tool may also have been used, but as a local contrast adjustment (low Amount, high Radius) rather than for sharpening. Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom (2nd Edition)