Twixt Twos and Fews They Worked Through The Night

Raymond.  All the elements work and make a great, very cool image.  Gritty comes to mind, not to mention erotic.  Throw me a bone or two please, pretty please ;-)  Is it tone mapped or HDR or something like that?  Also, where do you find these wonderful models???  All the best.  Dana...

Thanks for the kind words Dana. They are indeed wild women are then not :=}

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Model Mayhem is where I found one, whom I've worked with a number of times over the years and this time she brought a friend as she had some ideas of her own to work on that included a partner.

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Always willing to reveal my 'secrets' I am. Silver Efex pro II is the b/w converter and the best one out there by far. It replicates many old films and also allows you to noddle with a bunch o adjustment sliders n more. Its a plug in for Litghtroom and for P shop but acts much like a stand alone program, need I say Deep?

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Also used Analog Efex Pro II, another of the Nik Software suite to add to the old time look of it all.

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Google has bought out Nik Software and offers a suite of after market filters for P. Shop n Lightroom. They used to be about $150 bones each and I've had and used both Silver Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro for years. The whole suite now costs about 150 for all of them. A Fabulous and must have set for the likes of me. buy Buy BUY them Dana, you will not regret it for a second. I now wouldn't work without them. As I said, I already had 2 of them and when I asked about the price of one of the others, they told me since I've been a loyal customer, they'd give me the whole suite, with upgrades for free... Good price hey?

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They are as I said, like stand alone programs but you can stack them in your layers pallet in P.Shop and work right along using layer masks to reveal parts of what you want to below. They take some time to learn but hopefully we've got lots of that left and hey, what else are ya a gunna do to stay outta the bars :=}

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On this one, I think I've the grain set at like 70 pixels an inch... or you can make them at 500 and have really smooth images... Me? These Gals? We like it Rough... HA!

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Not to allude to anything that doesn't happen. My wife is about our studio/home during all of my shoots to keep an eye on us all :=}

Thanks Raymond.  I have the NIK suite and use silver efex for almost all my BW conversions.  I also use several of the filters in color efex and really love the graduated neutral density filter.  I haven't tweaked the grain as hard as you did here but I like the result.  

I am meeting with a model from MM next week and looking forward to the adventure.  I will keep you posted.  

great graphic work...regards....David