An official, soviet style - a photo on Flickriver

            An official, at the Minsk airport. I shot this picture after my flight had been turned around and landed back at the Minsk airport (Belarus) in the middle of winter. We were standing there, waiting for news about how to get back to Paris, and the departure hall was a mess. This guy was an official, standing calm in the middle of the mess, giving instructions in Russian. I shot him from a distance (and was told later by a friend that I could have gotten in trouble for doing this).

In terms of post-processing, I used the darktable software, as usual. My main efforts were on the colors (decreasing saturation, and avoiding a red tint on the face), making the background mostly white, and increasing the contrast around the face.

For colors, I used only a bit of split toning. For contrast, I used many tone curves, around the eyes, in the background, on the cap, as well as some equalizer filter, in clarity mode.

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Taken in: Belarus / Minskaya Voblasts' / Velikiydvor Airport (show map)

Taken on: February 27, 2018

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soviet

portrait

official

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