Office-mate Alex Mena pointed out that one of the best things that helped him to advice me to get the Canon 500D DSLR was the endorsement by veteran actor Ken Watanabe.

Alex calls it an “intense look” and says that you can’t go wrong with Ken Watanabe. I have to agree.  So, without hesitation, we did a photo-shoot to emulate our idol. It’s hard to replicate that INTENSE look. But a couple of hours later, with Photoshop, we got the effect above.

After the jump, you’ll see the original Ken “Intense” Watanabe photo and the pre-production photo before the touch-ups and Photoshop.

Ken Watanabe for Canon

Here’s the unedited version…

It took about 15 minutes in Photoshop to crop, touch up and put the mountain background.

Cheers!