benjamin and the robbed five minutes

A photographer David Hobby is running a lighting 102 online course at Strobist.com, and every once in awhile he puts up a tutorial with some no-cost tricks to improve lighting in photographs. Today it's very restricted lights in film noir style. I don't know anything about making film noir, (except the noir refers to lots of black) and left the colors on the shot. But here's my go with course.

the biggest challenge was the mood of the model, but I used all my 6year experience in the three-in-one technique: threat-blackmail-bribery - and got him sitting still - but you can't buy a smile. That would be too cheap...

...but enough me blogging for now - I have to pass the computer to benjamin to watch dvd's as i promised...



***edit***
now that I got my computer back, I tuned down the saturation and got nearly black&white Sepia. I don't know which is better, but this is the result...