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Yes, it should be clear that this is beautiful work from a good photographer. So in addition to the softboxes you need talent, hard work and long experience.
If it was easy everybody would be doing it.
It looks like the photographer added a warming filter along with some Curves to increase contrast and lift the output black point/lower white point, and the Green channel's black point. Perhaps a black to white Gradient Map with soft light blend mode at low opacity.
With that in mind, If we were to reverse engineer the grading a bit, you'd likely have something like this:
Not quite right, but close enough to confirm some of what has been done in the processing.
As jdanek said, very likely this is a
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It looks like the photographer added a warming filter along with some Curves to increase contrast and lift the output black point/lower white point, and the Green channel's black point. Perhaps a black to white Gradient Map with soft light blend mode at low opacity.
With that in mind, If we were to reverse engineer the grading a bit, you'd likely have something like this:
Not quite right, but close enough to confirm some of what has been done in the processing.
As jdanek said, very likely this is a plugin the photographer is using. However, the effect shouldn't be too hard to replicate, or at least come close. Once you've succeeded in that, simply record an Action with all the steps needed to achieve the effect. Then you can apply with the press of a button, or in a batch. Be sure to use actual adjustment layers, in case you need to fine tune the effect from image to image.
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