Experimental promo photo

Shot on a Canon 300D in RAW, edited in PhotoShop CS3. It’s not finished, but it was fun to try and get a "moody" look. After retouching, duplicated the photo, used threshold to pick out the lowlights and turn them black, heavy blur filter and reduce opacity…

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