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

[namphoto]

@charlie
post the original.

[charliebrown]

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by request..

the original straight from my cf card with NO editing or pp of any kind

[charliebrown]

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hope this one works..

the original from my previous post with no PP straight from my CF card

[namphoto]

looks pretty good to me, the only critique id give is, correct me if im wrong, you concentrated too much on the face, and not any other aspect. like arms background etc.

good colors too.

[pellepiano]

Heres a long podcast interview with Dave Hill. Not sure if its been posted before, I think its new.

http://ia341025.us.archive.org/0/ite...phyPodcast.mp3

[obosila]

Here is my try.

[Biwa]

wow finally got to the end of this 32 page thread.
No one has mentioned this and its how I think in terms of money and business.
DH in a vid and also on his blog says he uses Lucis Art . He does not deny it after the comment. Most here think its a comment said in jest. However , in terms of endorsement , why push a product if you arent using it or getting something out of it? It's not like hes in a bar and says it, hes fully aware of the ad play thats getting on the Internet. All it does is send people to purchase those plugins. Why just mention that particular plugin? Hes a a stage where his endorsement could mean money to him and whatever company hes "pluggin" .
Doesnt add up that hes not using it to me .
He does flat out say he doesnt use HDR , never does he follow up and say " no , I'm not using Lucis Art " .
MHO.

And in the end the company that makes Lucis Art is just laughing to the bank. Cuz it aint cheap.

[CaptainHook]

Biwa ~ listen to the interview pelle kindly posted.

[Mtmm]

Yes, that podcast reveals that Dave is not using neither hdr or lucis.

[Biwa]

Originally Posted by CaptainHook

Biwa ~ listen to the interview pelle kindly posted.

will do , I was burnt out on DH after 2.5 hours of reading this thread lol.

[Jeeves]

I need to clear up some mis-information here.

Originally Posted by Biwa

He does flat out say he doesnt use HDR , never does he follow up and say " no , I'm not using Lucis Art " .
MHO.

And in the end the company that makes Lucis Art is just laughing to the bank. Cuz it aint cheap.

You should go find some of his posts. He's made a few posts on other forums. In them, he's said SEVERAL times that he'll sit down and tell someone how he does it for a $20 or a Corona but if you mention HDR or Lucis Art it's off.

In fact, look here: http://www.virb.com/davehill

As for the cameras he's using, if you pay a attention to his videos he's used several cameras. He's got a full-frame Canon 1D(s?) of some sort (not a Nikon) and a Hasselblad. He also shoots with Canon Prime lenses, and H1 lenses exclusively.

Much of the look he achives is done through composition (shooting a scene, then putting the subject (who he's also shot) into that scene) and proper lighting. In his lighting entourage he's got no less than two softboxes, an octobox, beauty dishes, several White Lightning 1600 strobes with 10 degree grids in them, a ring flash, and a slew of random Profoto gear and stands. It's not difficult to deduce this if you pay attention.

Now, he's said he's no Photoshop Guru. So, I'm assuming a lot of the stuff is done with simple methods using good composition and excellent source images.

[CaptainHook]

Originally Posted by Jeeves

He's got a full-frame Canon 1D(s?) of some sort

Pretty sure it's a 5D.

[Jeeves]

Originally Posted by CaptainHook

Pretty sure it's a 5D.

Then he's got the battery grip on the bottom. Due to it's size I'd expected it to be a 1Ds of some sort, but actually, you're right. Looking at the video it has a direct to printer button on the back. The upper 1D's don't have that.

[wnabelkmikey]

Well im pretty new here.. And have spent 2 days reading this thread. I would like to say that (for what its worth) I dont believe that he is using any plugin. It looks from almost all of his shoots that he uses a "butterfly" lighting system. I heard that was the wrong term for the lighting I am speaking about, but its the lighting where you have two lights behind the subjects casting a highlight on the side of the body. Not too sure if anyone knows what I am talking about. I have been doing a little work but nothing worthy of even putting up here.

I do believe that there is no 'quick fix' He mentioned in the lightsource podcast that if it only took 2-3 hours like some of us are doing, they would turn out the same as ours.

And HDR is definately out of the question.... Just my opinion though.

[Wolfman]

By now everybody that has been keeping up with this should realize that what he say's he is doing is what he say's he is doing...... period !!!

It's good lighting and his post production without the plugins everybody suspects. He seems like a straight forward guy.