Advanced color shading - how the hell did he do that?:-)

[badMiKe]

Another try - with less grain

[snowymoon06]

MUCH better

[dromatador]

hey all --

first post --

NEway, thought i'd give it a try -- i'm pretty sure Patrick captures a good bit from the shot as is -- if interested, he talks about in a Digital Pro issue, and another issue (forget which now) -- he uses a lot of continuous lighting, film-style (meaning movie-style), mostly kino flos, which are expensive fluorescent lights... you can see the catchlight in some of the shots... naturally there is some Post work, but not as much as one would think... he uses a guy named Joe P. @ digital fusion (check their website) --

the color correction reminds me a of the stuff we do for movies... i've sat in on a few Digital CC sessions for big films like The Ring Two and The Sentinel... "sat in" as in checking stuff out as a visitor, not that I did any work on that... i'm not a Photoshop master by any means, but I figured I'd give it a try...

process: desaturated a bit (to taste) -- added a smidge of contrast... then i went to color balance and added the blues, greens, and cyans, but here's the difference, ONLY to the SHADOWS... again, all to taste... in the exterior shot, I dodged and burned a smidge as well, but not a lot, cuz i don't feel too proficient with that tool yet...

there's a Final Cut Pro plugin called Magic Bullet that replicates different types of Movie Looks... and this is close to what it does... essentially creating a "Matrix" look... for more info on this stuff, check here: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/lookguide.html

[dromatador]

oops --

just realized -- came to this thread from a Patrick Hoelck thread... all the things I said above still apply tho'

since this photog has a similar feel to Patrick's work...

okay -- thaz it...

[rubyrieke]

Wow great thread. Here is what I did to one of my photos simply by doing the steps listed earlier in this thread. I created a luminace mask used curves to make mid areas dark and just leave high lights. I then copied the selection from that on top of the image and lightened. I then added a blue color overlay at 26%.

I think the image is quite nice to begin with and thats whyit works in blue also. I shot it with a white lighting beauty dish

[rubyrieke]

Hi here is a try using dromatadors steps.

[AD.2006]

ATT: dromatador

Thanks for the Link » Great Tools by Red Giant Software

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[jenfinger77]

I'm gonna say it's a selective desaturation -- I noticed, in the example about three pages back with the castle, that the building and other architectural details were a lot grayer and flatter than the model and the sky, though everything seemed to be altered.


I stole someone else's example and did some desaturation and curve adjustments, treating the model, the stool and the background as three distrinct areas of work.

I also think it helps to CMYK the photo first, which immediately lessens some of its depth.

I also noticed some "random" bursts of color in the samples, so I went back in and added some contrasty pinks back into the models lips and her watch (going with the art-class theory that if you use a color once, you should pick it up somewhere else.)

Anyway, I'm long-winded today, but that's my take.

[JBurt]

The was terrible. Let's see if resizing it will work.