Nick likes tattoos …
He got a skateboarding tattoo a while ago, and now he’s chosen to celebrate his heritage permanently. He had an idea months ago for a free hand tattoo of the Maple Leaf and his tattooist traced an outline he provided and then free handed the coloring, exactly as Nick wanted.
This shot is from the D700 at 3200 ISO with the Tamron 28-75 at 75mm and f/2.8. The light was a horrid mix of blue from his left (two monitors) and orange form his right (compact fluorescent bulb.) There was no chance ot get the skin all one color, so I chose to take the image to black and white except for the tattoo, which remains in color. I obviously masked that off, but I also had to use the hue/saturation brush to suck out the skin color and then boost the reds back up.
I did a few skin tweaks (easy peasy with the healing brush set to “lighten” and set to “content-aware” … and tweaked the eyes with masked levels to get the whites looking brighter (he is exhausted after working 7 days a week for quite a while now and sitting outside counting cars all day today …
The result is acceptable I think …
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