Justin Stephens, Photographer, Los Angeles

Description

This vertical portrait features a young man with dark, slicked hair and pale makeup, smiling broadly with bared teeth. He is captured from the side in profile view, wearing a textured, dark blue coat and matching blue gloves with his hands raised in a theatrical gesture. The lighting creates dramatic highlights on his face and shoulders against an atmospheric background of dark clouds and a distant nighttime cityscape with small glowing lights. The composition has a cinematic quality with cool color grading and prominent blue tones.

Style

Vertical, Cinematic, Moody, Cool

Techniques

Low-key / chiaroscuro

Color

Background

Overcast Sky

Context

Portrait / Headshot