Last semester, when I still lived on cam­pus, one of my lovely flat­mates (Nancy from Aus­tria) often had another friend of hers /​mine over, Vazul (Aus­trian too). Just day I had read about ”Jowl­ers”, check out the link, so I asked Vazul if he’d be in for try­ing it out.

Unfor­tu­nately, in the end it didn’t work out as desired (at least the shots didn’t really look cool). How­ever, in the pro­cess of set­ting up /​con­fig­ur­ing the gear I got this inter­est­ing shot :-)

To get this look (which pretty much invited itself by the chem­ical green paint of our creepy kit­chen, as well as Vazul’s tough-​boy expres­sion), I desat­ur­ated the reds and the yel­lows (while boost­ing the oranges a bit) and drastic­ally reduced the bright­ness val­ues of these col­ours, all in Light­Room. This is how you can get some nice, strong, rough tex­ture out of the skin (do the oppos­ite if you want to make it look more smooth). To increase the effect, I applied some hard core sharpen­ing to the final image.

Some say, Vazul never looked so “manly”… all I know is that I just love this shot. So Kudos and thanks to Vazul (wherever you are now)!