This was shot outside using a speedlight on a light stand. For this image the light was to my right, to create a bit of Rembrandt lighting. In post I used a dark style edit, which requires me to properly expose and tone the image before doing the dark edit. To get this look, I first dropped the exposure of the properly exposed image to darken it. Then desaturated each of the color channels then slowly brought them back one-by-one starting with the least dominant color to the most dominant color. When bringing back the color the trick is to keep the colors muted but still visible. Most of the colors are at saturations between -40 to -78, while the overall saturation for the image is at -3 with a clarity of +4. I think the dark edit gives the image a nice moody feel and makes it a bit more rustic.
For the image I used a Canon R6 with a 24-105mm lens, ISO 125, Aperture F8, Shutter 1/160s.
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