Im dying to know!.....

[faith.love]

I was browsing through deviantART and found a subscriber who does amazig black and white pictures with almost a high key tone to them but softer more white feel to them. ...Does anyone know what to do to get this effect??? Please help. I work with a Canon EOS 50D i got as a gift


heres her link nilgunkara on deviantART im particularly talking about "delicacy of white" http://nilgunkara.deviantart.com/art/delicacy-of-white-120025104

 

[musicaleCA]

Okay, let's get this out of the way first: FIRST P0ST! (Yep, I'm totally new here too.)

And, you got a 50D as a gift??? Someone loves you. Blimy.

After a quick look, I think there's a combination of lighting and post-processing in they're work. She's using very soft (and I think a studio set-up for those portraits; giant soft-boxes a boon) light to light her subjects, and reflectors to even things out. The post-processing is probably some brightening, definitely increasing contrast (s-curve) and I'm going to guess a fair bit of messing with a channel mixer. Fairly easy to do in Lightroom. That and she might also be using a positive flash bias for some of those shots.

In the particular shot you're talking about, I'm pretty certain the eyes have been sharpened, and probably PS'd in some way; there are many, many ways to bring-out someone's eyes, from overlaying white on the eye whites, to brushing on stronger eyelashes (and of course less aggressive techniques).