Shit happens, and sometimes it can be some ugly shit as you can see when you hover over the picture above to see the original. In this particular case I had everything going for me – a pretty model, great weather, a killer lens, and two assistants. What could go wrong? Well, a lot actually. This shot ended up with the reflector in the wrong spot so the cheeks got hammered with too much light and the gold tone was just too much. I was really annoyed because I thought this was a nice shot, so I fought to save it. Fortunately I shot raw so I could get most of the exposure back, but the gold tone was going to kill me in Photoshop. Out of desperation I thought, I wonder what this would look like in Black and White so I fired up Nik Software’s Silver Efex and something magical happened – I began to see hope! It took about an hours worth of work to end up with the black and white result you see above, but it was worth it as this is one of my favorite black and white shots in my portfolio.
This shot was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II using a 200mm f/2L IS USM lens (courtesy of CameraLensRentals.com). It was shot from a monopod at f/2 for 1/500 sec at ISO 100. In addition to Silver Efex, I also used Color Efex to soften the skin and Sharpener Pro to do some limited selective sharpening.
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