Looking for help in recreating Dave Hill look.

[Caesium]

Anyone know the methods Dave Hill (http://www.davehillphoto.com) uses to achieve his look? Any tutorials or tips would be greatly appreceiated.

[Swampy]

There is already a discussion in this thread.

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[Caesium]

Thanks but your link is broken.

[Swampy]

Just search on Dave Hill

[lkroll]

Either HDR or a combination of Shadow/Highlights and Lucis Wyclif. Can also achieve this using ACE (GIMP Plugin) and Xero's Supersmooth filter.

[palms1]

have a look at this link it may get you close

http://enigma-photos.com/LucisArtTutorial/index.htm

Palms

[musicman_bmh]

for the record....dave doesn't use HDR or lucis art

[Caesium]

Anyone know the thread Swampy was talking about? The only one I can find has less information than this thread already contains.

[enigmaphotos]

Not sure which thread it was. There are quite a few though.

And regardless of musicman_bmh... here's my take on it (rightly or wrongly).

- firstly he has some wonderful lighting. It looks expensive and you can see some behind the scenes shots on his website. This is certainly a big factor in Dave Hills look. www.davehillphoto.com

- He does certainly use some form of local contrast enhancement (LCE). I'm not 100% sure he uses Lucis Arts, or another version using smart sharpen to provide LCE. I do suspect he doesn't treat his whole image with LCE. It does look quite selective where it's applied.

- He almost certainly paints with light (i.e. there are loads of dodge/burn methods you can look up. I have one of my own in my siggy).

- He may, or may not use HDR. If he doesn't use HDR then he certainly uses tonemapping. I have been able to get similar results from very minor tweaking of a single RAW and pushing three or five manual TIFF exposures through Photomatix.

- The rest looks like your standard curves and contrast adjustments.

I hope that this info is at least a little more what you were looking for. Please remember that this may not be exact, as it's purely my interpretation of how he gets this look. I'm probably missing something or way off the mark... who knows.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Caesium

Anyone know the methods Dave Hill (http://www.davehillphoto.com) uses to achieve his look? Any tutorials or tips would be greatly appreceiated.

Just ran across this discussion at DPR...

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...3727266&page=1

It appears the "method" gets a lot of thumbs down, but the commentary that follows was enlightening (to me, anyway).

[superkoax]

just to add on more info on the tutorial! it's not even close! BUT, I would advice you to look at the behind the scenes photos on dave hill's site...I saw some pictures there!

And to look at the final result and to look on the behind photos, you can see what they do to each person! specially on the band picture where they all it and stand in and old house or barn...

Gerry

[henry leusink]

Gday

Maybe this tutorial is something for you http://www.radiantvista.com/archive/..._workbench/89/

Greeting Henry

[superkoax]

HENRY: that's the tutorial I'm talking about! Not even close...


I have made a new thread it's called "The demystification of dave hill! let's all help!" , search for it!


Gerry