Sipping the Kool-Aide

I suppose one of the advantages of leaving  photojournalism is that the realm of post-processing creativeness opens up.  After wondering around the internet for a bit I came across some threads about this thing called the “Dave Hill Effect.”  Dave Hill is a portrait photographer who has a very specific style, no one is quite sure how he does it, but there are some techniques floating around that get marginally close.

This is a photo I took last summer while in Anniston redone using said technique.  Obviously this would never fly in the newspaper world, but that really isn’t a concern anymore.