For this photo I had a 2 point lighting setup with a honeycomb light lighting the foreground and a snoot light in the background.

I enjoyed the heavy contrast between the two saturated colours so in Lightroom Classic had the temperature decreased for the royal blue and increased the tint for the ruby red and copied the settings to a similar photo.

Finally in photoshop I imported both photos, opacified the second one and dragged the spot heal tool sporadically until I ended up with the eyes. To achieve the aquamarine highlight I simply increased the overall exposure.

This is a simple setup with one key light. I added a gaussian blur to the primary layer to smooth out the subject.

On the secondary layer I positioned a similar image in the same place with a motion blur then copied and cropped the eyes from the layer and added to it additional motion blur for this dreamlike look.

(This last photo had to be downsized to fit the upload limit)

Like the previous image I added a gaussian blur and spot healing to smooth out the subjects face in both images.

I tried to make the red highlight more subtle so opacified that layer. This works out quite well as the opaque layer is directly staring into the camera

Inspiration

Overall these edits take inspiration from the work I’ve seen from Jonti Wild.

The stark neon colours and use of blur gives his images a new type of depth I want to add into my own portfolio.