Before and After

One of my peeps wanted to see the before and after shot of his image, so I thought I would post it here and give an explanation of what I did to get it from start to finish. First, the original...

 Now the final product...
The most obvious change is the crop. I normally don't crop in this tight, but I generally test it out just to see what it looks like and when I cropped this shot I knew instantly that it was the way to go. His face tells a story to me and getting up close and personal really draws you in.

I use Adobe Lightroom for my initial processing, so after the crop I did some adjustments to brightness, contrast, clarity, and saturation. After that I did a little bit of dodge and burn in his eyes and around his chin to make his face pop. I then did vignetting to draw the viewer into the face. After that I popped it over to Photoshop and did some spot editing and a high pass filter to accentuate the detail.

Pretty simple...