Movie poster quality workflow?

[rawfa]

Hi Guys,

Additionally to light I was wondering what work flow (shooting and color correcting) should be followed to achieve this type of quality:

HDR and some heavy CC? Has anyone ever achieved such results?

 

[RodThompson]

The technique used in this poster reminds me of Dragan.

A tutorial on how to achieve this effect is found here.


I have done a few Dragan-like retouches for some themed contests over at Worth1000.com.