How to: "Christian Schmidt" Look

[pixelhunter]

Originally Posted by palms1

Pixelhunter YOU ROCK

Thanks

Palms

No no, YOU rock.

[snook305]

Thanks.. Does anybody know what happens to Models/People with this technique?
Thanks for all the Information..:+}
Snook

[cli]

escuse me, i can see a incredible noise pop here..... you too???

[BigBlaze]

When I had a curve, The picture become to much dense if I move the slider to 25. Please tell me, do you have to lighten the fill before starting to covert the picture or you keep it normal density ?

[pixelhunter]

Originally Posted by BigBlaze

When I had a curve, The picture become to much dense if I move the slider to 25. Please tell me, do you have to lighten the fill before starting to covert the picture or you keep it normal density ?

Hi.
What do you mean by "dense"?

[BigBlaze]

The picture become dark

[pixelhunter]

Is the black slider located top-right, or bottom-left?

[BigBlaze]

bottom left

[pixelhunter]

Originally Posted by BigBlaze

bottom left

Ok. Did you try the action-file i posted?

[BigBlaze]

I'm searching this post, but can find it.

Thank you for you help. Go if you want to post it one more time.

BigBlaze

[pixelhunter]

Here. Reply when you've grabbed it.

[BigBlaze]

Dear Pixelhunter,

To lighten the picture, I have to convert, assign, convert, assign. Doing this will lighten the file and after I can use the curve to increase density.

I will download your action and try it.

Thank you,

BigBlaze

[BigBlaze]

Your action work.

Thank you,

BigBlaze

[pixelhunter]

Originally Posted by BigBlaze

Your action work.

Thank you,

BigBlaze

No problem.

You produce very cool pictures by the way.

[BigBlaze]

Thank you for the comment.

Now check this:

http://jeannichols.com/glace/

[subxaero]

Stool

Strike

Staircase

one day i'll get it

[DJSoulglo]

Holy crap. Those are some SERIOUSLY cool photos.

Where are you located?

[cli]

escuse me my question is gona lost

do you see a lot of noise increase using this tecnique???

[subxaero]

Originally Posted by cli

escuse me my question is gona lost

do you see a lot of noise increase using this tecnique???

well...if you just assign the aim profile, no pixels at all will change.
the conversion to adobergb (so the pixel are those, you see on your monitor), alters the pixels the first time.

it's mostly the second conversion revealing some noise.
thing is: i dont think this technique produces noise.
it's just - if you shot a very dark picture and not enough information is in the shadows and you lighten them, it's pretty natural to reveal(!) the noise, with which your camera tried to display the information in the dark

have a look at my pictures.
each one of them ran through at least 3 times AIM-conversion...and only the last one (shot pretty dark) shows ugly artifacts in the shadows i revealed.

(by the way - i always work in 16bit - this larger pixeldepth reduces the creation of noise pretty good)

[subxaero]

Originally Posted by DJSoulglo

Holy crap. Those are some SERIOUSLY cool photos.

Where are you located?

what do you mean by located? where i shot those or where i live...lol

[cli]

thanks subxaero for explanation

[palms]

Another problem (well for me)
saving the image is fine into my pictures
but when i try saving to web the image goes darker and i loose most of the effect
Is there away round this ? ( I am thinking of trying a photo host site to see if there is the same problem there
any one any ideas ? please

Palms

[subxaero]

Originally Posted by palms1

Another problem (well for me)
saving the image is fine into my pictures
but when i try saving to web the image goes darker and i loose most of the effect
Is there away round this ? ( I am thinking of trying a photo host site to see if there is the same problem there
any one any ideas ? please

Palms

you just forgot to apply adobe rgb in the end.

a webbrowser (or anything outside photoshop) will not display the AIM-Colors, thus the image stays as it was bevore the AIM aplliance

go cowboy!

[palms]

Originally Posted by subxaero

you just forgot to apply adobe rgb in the end.

a webbrowser (or anything outside photoshop) will not display the AIM-Colors, thus the image stays as it was bevore the AIM aplliance

go cowboy!

Thanks a lot

Palms

[julianmarsalis]

What happen to the action????

[rystro]

Does anybody have any other thoughts to Christian Schmidt's overall post-process?

See:
http://christianschmidt.com/

[DJSoulglo]

Uhm, check the previous pages in this thread?

[rystro]

Thanks, and I have. It mainly deals with the AIM profile which achieve only the "bleached" out look of the whites. Has nothing to do with his overall approach and how he does his post.

The bleach out white look he does on a few of his images, but I'm not really impressed that that's how he does it anyway.

I mean take a look at this image...
http://www.christianschmidt.com/uplo...ger_kessel.jpg

[girlsfather]

Originally Posted by rystro

Does anybody have any other thoughts to Christian Schmidt's overall post-process?

See:
http://christianschmidt.com/

The company that does most of his post work is:
http://www.recom.de/

I am shure it is not just applying an action, but much more complex ;-)))

[rystro]

Yeah I definitely know its not an action!!!

I for awhile thought he shoots the background in HDR, composites the person in the scene.. but then I don't know how he is able to make the composite so seamless.