Is this just a red filter effect?

Whatever it is sure isn't very flattering. There's also been some post processing, not done to major benefit.

 

I certainly wouldn't put a photo like that "out there."

Lot's of dodging and burning in there as well as exaggerated contrast.

 

I am not sure that the point of the photo was meant to flatter the subject -- to me it seems like the photographer is as using the medium of photography and the malleable canvas of a model's face to express a certain alienation from or dissatisfaction with something or someone , but what that something is I cannot tell.

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If it was straight from the camera, a blue filter will darken red which is what is happening

here. Could be photoshop.

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I would call it a bad filter effect

@Evan: thanks, that works.

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@Robert: heh, same same.

Red filter can work nicely for skin, smooth and pale. I'd guess this is (mostly) blue channel in channel mixer, dodge/burn and too much sharpening, perhaps some high pass.

Aargh, I *meant* blue filter. Karsh used blue filters on male subjects and I

thought this had a similar look to it.

To get dark lips with b&w film I used a green filter and sometimes had the person I was photographing use green lipstick. It works. Learned that in a photography class I took eons ago when b&w was the film to shoot.

Sorry, green filter with green lips would not equal dark lips. In BW the filters lighten their own color and darken their complimentary color.

 

Green filters do give a more rugged skin tone, good for the rugged male image. Red filters lighten skin and thus work better on women than green.

 

The photo in question was definitely not shot through a red filter, evidence the dark lips and skin blemishes. Maybe blue, maybe green but not red.