Nadav Kander style

Kander is famous for his portraits and has photographed many celebrities in his career. His portrait of Gary Barlow really stands out to me. 

Today I used Photoshop to create my own 'Nadav style' portrait.

The first step I took was to convert my image to greyscale. 

Then I made a copy of that layer.

Then I turned the opacity down to 35%. 

Then I used the move tool to move the copied layer slightly to the left. 

Then i added a layer mask and used a black brush tool to take away the movement effect from her face. 

Then I flattened my image and created a copy layer. 

Then i added a gradient to my image to give it some colour.

Then I changed the blend mode of my image to get the result I was looking for. I used Overlay. 

This was my final result. 

Kander's work stood out to me because its different. He's taken a completely different look at the simple portrait and it works remarkably well! I'd never seen anything like Kander's work before I was recently introduced to him and I was instantly captivated! I think his work is so popular because even though its so simple, its so different!