Full Digital Set with Ges part II and Texture Overlays (Patreon)

Here is part II of the full digital sets with Ges taken on the Fuji X-Pro2. 

Here I basically used pretty much the same lighting setup from the first set, Godox with red gel on the right through a grid and a second one on the floor to the left with the same setup but blue gelled. Very simple stuff. 

You may have noticed some subtle grain and dust to the images here, not sure you can see these details on a phone, but you can see it on a bigger screen for sure. Yes these are digitals, however I used overlays on this set and the one before to give the photos some texture and color variations:

I used this method in the past a few times, been a while since I did this but decided to give it a try one more time for the sake of making a Patreon post out of it. 

Next are a few of the photoshop overlays I used, mostly got off the web, however you can make your own.

This is the dust and hair layer I put in Lighten mode at 20-30% opacity, you can even tint this layer. I usually just mask and erase parts I don't want for every photo, so yeah it can be a long process:

This is another subtle layer in soft light around 30% opacity:

This next one will create a gradient colour shift which can be really interesting as you can make it whatever colour and orientation you want. I usually put this layer on vivid light mode at a very low intensity like 15%, but you can experiment for yourself:

And that's it! I found this technique a while ago at work (Ubisoft) while I was sitting next to concept artists as they are using all kinds of tricks to create their images even thought they were awesome pencil artists. Lots of layer overlays are used to tweak colours and mood to their images, I even remember one guy using blurred Rembrandt paintings to get those nice tints in there. 

Basically what I'm saying here is that you can use or do whatever you like to achieve the desire effect you are looking for. I'm sure some would tell me that you can't do this here, you just can't emulate film, why add grain, etc etc... Why can't this be art right?  Don't limit yourself to rules established by the photo police, believe me that won't do you any good. 

Explore, experiment and just try things out you might learn a thing or two.