A looking dive bar wants bartender portraits. I would my regular style that I do with models in ACR but would like to do a bit of a 'hard' look like these portraits - https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalgrace/

Any directions on setting to use for this or is there any kind of a preset?

As long as you keep subject contrast within limits, you can increase the contrast in editing without the shadow areas becoming too obvious.

This guy gives good examples of his work flow and this recent post may be of interest .

https://www.mu-43.com/threads/creating- … st-1631529