I've always been curious on how this look is achieved. The colors are cold and mute and it creates a sort of surreal look to it. Looking forward to reading your suggestions. Thank you.


Photos by Václav Širc:

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4061810-lg.jpg

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3431094-md.jpg

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2407051-md.jpg

The links don't work for me.

the links do not work for me either

Here's a working link to a couple of them --

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061810

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3431094

Take a look at the color info on their skin tones -- there's a lot of cyan added and the yellow and magenta are nearly equal instead of yellow being slightly more dominant -- when I took out a lot of cyan and added some yellow, you have realistic skintones. Add cyan and subtract yellow, you have "creative" skintones.

you can mask out her skin......run a desat. layer like -40 or -50, then using the same mask apply a new curve that makes up the skin tone you like, adding as much cyan, or yeloow etc. as you like.

Thanks for the replies. Does the same thing applies when you work on the background? I have not had a chance to try the suggestions made yet.

Try it and tell us! :)

the first picture is really nice colour...desaturated colours is the name of the game here...but the lighingt enhances the effect and gives it a more dynamic...

Gerry

Thank you for the replies. I tried out the suggestions made and I think would practice I should get something similar to the posted images. Thanks.