Mike can still learn new tricks!

There is a style of retouching right now that gives an image a very edgy high contrast look.  I have wanted for a long time to learn this technique but it has evaded me until now.  Of course there are plugins available for purchase that do a pretty good job of making the effect but they just don’t hit the mark for me.  I took a crack at it tonight (no plug ins or Photoshop addons) on some of the recent South Padre images and then a couple of older images.  Still learming but I’m getting very close.