The demystification of dave hill! let's all help!

[CMS]

Originally Posted by superkoax

cms: thanks for replying here...I've seen some of the movies on his page, I haven't seen any hasselblad...Only Canon 5d or 1dmark with either 50mm 1.4 or 1.2 ...But what you say it's true about the hasselblad! I really hope he uses a hasselblad since this will clear up a bit of what I think...But some of the pictures are wideangle shots, do hasselblad have wideangle lenses?

Gerry

He is using a hassy for the big jobs.Like all photographers he has different cameras for different jobs.All important jobs he does it with Hassy.One of his secrets is that he uses power generators on location and so he has plenty of power and can close the aperture more.But i consider that he has a talent to see perspectives, angles, lines etcccc.The lighting he uses is not a secret... every experienced photographer can tell you few hints regarding light.
He light his subjects in a way that is useful in Photoshop to create volumes and depth.HIS PHOTOSHOP WORKFLOW WOULD BE NICE TO SEE !!!!!!!

[superkoax]

cms: his workflow would be great to see! about the lighting it's nothing spectacular...But look at the videos! I don't see any hasselblad cameras there...It's only canon, but have only seen it from distance in the vid..maybe a Mimaya?

Gerry

[saby]

Hi Gerry,

I'm with you to demystification of Dave Hill, IMHO CMS has right, the matter of DH scenes: details -as i see- and surelly he uses some of the HDR techniques. May be he doesn't want to show everithing about his work, showed a canon on the werk to let us thinking about: how did he do by just a canon??!!! But what i really like in DH works that he can imagine the whole and does it from parts.

sorry about my english

saby

[superkoax]

nice picture saby! WHAT DID YOU DO to the wood texture? It reminds of a dave hill shoot!


gerry

[saby]

it is a raw - what i took at my worktime so my boss - created a HDR from, and tonemapped in qtpfsgui 3times: 1 for color, 2 for lowpass, 3 for highpass blended in photoshop

saby

[superkoax]

saby: so you took only 1 picture tonemapped in what? qtpfsgui? what's that?

[saby]

yes i did Gerry

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/sof...-qtpfsgui.html

saby

[superkoax]

thanks! what iso do you have on the picture? the noise on the wall is a bit high

Gerry

[saby]

Originally Posted by superkoax

thanks! what iso do you have on the picture? the noise on the wall is a bit high

Gerry

iso:200
actually this is a cause of tonemapping- quick job

saby

[superkoax]

ok, the program qtpfsgu, is it a standalone program or to use within photoshop?

[saby]

It's standalone, but U need to install qt-mac-opensource-4.2.3 for the system

saby

[CMS]

Originally Posted by superkoax

cms: his workflow would be great to see! about the lighting it's nothing spectacular...But look at the videos! I don't see any hasselblad cameras there...It's only canon, but have only seen it from distance in the vid..maybe a Mimaya?

Gerry

look at pictures from behind the scenes for Chevrolet.That's a Hasselblad with the digital back.

[superkoax]

cms: OH? that is good to know...thanks! it seems we all fight an expensive dream here with the gear and what results he pushes out from the hassy! man, one day! one day. *SIGH*

Gerry

[The_Traveler]

I can't get the PSD. Perhaps someone can repost it.
In any case, what is the BW layer for.
Does is get merged with underlying color layer in some way?

TIA

Lew

[superkoax]

traveler: it's a softlight layer with 50% grey...this you can use together with dodg/burn without damaging the picture...

Gerry