What sort of processing...

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..has been done here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wefwef/4298090600/

The guy has some amazing photos, and a lot have processing similar to above. It looks quite grainy, but with details and sharpness. I also think its desaturated slightly.

I am not sure where to start with this...
 
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Don't think it's dragan, looks more like a colour and black and white layers blended with as Christine says tons of sharpening.
Edit looking at some of the others it looks like he's desaturating the colours in some and maybe some local contrast boosting?
 
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lovely processing. would also love to know how he does it. does look a lot of contrast/sharpening. also has some desaturated look to it. mind you, bet if he posted these on here, you'd here a lot of: it's too sharpened comments.
 
to begin with you have to have the right face (lines, wrinkles)
then you have to have slightly hard light (late afternoon sun, or a beauty dish)

post can only do soo much, but you want lots of clarity, lots of contrast, a strong tone curve and to tone down any yellow/red in the skin tone

dadzq.jpg
 
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Many thanks. Great tip about the LR preset. it might be a good starting point.
 
Well for starters the light in that picture is relatively soft if anything, that's what I'd go for if trying to achieve this also, as it allows more flexibility in post processing since there is less of a gap between the highlights and the shadows of the skin.

There is no specific way of telling how someone has processed an image, there are 10000 ways of reaching the same result. Although personally I'd say play around with curves and saturation - go in to the Red and Yellow channels of the hue and saturation tool and fiddle with bringing those down a bit - this is quite an easy way of targeting skin tones. His skin looks less saturated than the rest of the image. An alternate way would be to mask it. You could also fiddle with maybe adding a black & white adjustment layer, then change the blending mode to Luminosity or Soft light, another way of adding contrast whilst giving you strict control of what it is targeting. There are many other ways to adjust colour and contrast but it would take ages to list them. As far as the sharpening goes I'd say duplicate background layer > filter > hi pass, have it on a relatively low number, try between 1 and 5 for starters, then change the blending mode to overlay. This tool can be useful for adding definition and sharpness.

Fiddle about with some of those things :)
 
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