Scott Kelby published a tutorial on his Photoshop Insider Blog explaining how to achieve the gritty portrait style. I played with the tutorial and here are some results:

What do you think?

A year ago my wife and I were in a trip, driving two weeks in Croatia-Slovenia.
While reorganizing Lightroom catalog I found the following photograph from Croatia.

The guy was drunk and barely sat straight for the photo.

Usually i dont tend to upload photos of myself but this time I will make an exception.

Few days ago my wife, my son and myself had a nice walk in the neighborhood and I decided to use the opportunity to be on the other side of the camera for a change.

I gave my wife my 5D camera with the 16-35 lens and the 580II flash.
The camera was configured to AV, F2.8 and 800 ISO (in order to see the background in these evening hours) with the flash configured for -1/3 exposure (so our faces will have a little more natural look).

This is the outcome (click to enlarge):

The image would have been a little better if my baby would have chosen to smile.
I guess he needs few more months to get used to the flash .