How to get this briliant look?

EddieVedder · #1 03-21-2009, 08:09 AM

Hey guys and girls,

i am curious If anybody has a clue how to achieve this look on a photo. Go to www.jessylee.de and you'll see heaps of impressing pictures. I wonder how it is possible to get these skin tones look so realistically.Whilst checking out the pictures I found that the blue channels of all her pictures have some strange noise- which is not due to the compression. Does this have anything to do whith the look? I have already tried loads of things to get these results (Overlay, multiply etc.), but it always looks kinda just coloured.
It would be great if anybody could give some input because I am about to drive crazy;-)

Greetings from Germany,

Martin

I have attached two examples of the style I would like to achieve. The third image show the blue channels that I found somehow remarkable.

Philipp · #2 03-21-2009, 08:24 AM

Hey Martin,

(suche auch schon ganz lange nach Entsprechungen:-( für diese Technik)

this style drives me crazy too!
But i´m sure the solution isn´t that hard to find, if you look @the work of some guys in this forum.

could you give me a pm if you should know more about the style?

(beste grüße aus dem verregneten Norddeutschland!)

greez from Germany^^

Tareq · #3 03-21-2009, 08:55 AM

I don't know how he did that, but i try to get closer

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8093/a00004043.jpg

palms · #4 03-21-2009, 09:00 AM

has any one a image they can post ? for a try ? may get more ideas that way

Palms

Tareq · #5 03-21-2009, 09:11 AM

Another attempt, i think the results on the website are done by using gold reflector to give that golden look, then maybe some retouches by photoshop.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6630/a00004044.jpg

EddieVedder · #6 03-21-2009, 09:23 AM

Feel free to photoshop with this ugly guy below and give him that brilliant look:-)

2nd Version is my attempt.

igot2pman · #7 03-21-2009, 12:17 PM

This is about as close as i could get it.

-Keven

Richard_Lynch · #8 03-21-2009, 12:17 PM

A bug hint seems to be in the catchlights...it always is. There are some pretty big rectangular soft boxes behind the camera (you can see either the camera or the photographer's head or both in the catch light and mostly near the center of the light). The rest is working the existing contrast, which can be done in a multitude of different ways. The attempts I see here are lighting from the side or decidedly off-center, which is not what is going on in any of the three examples I see here that you want to copy.

Copy the lighting angle first as that will get the character. The glow/contrast was likely done with something similar to:

1. select highlights
2. copy-paste
3. Blur
4. screen (or perhaps overlay/softlight) mode
5. reduce opacity

I hope that helps!

Richard_Lynch · #9 03-21-2009, 12:24 PM

Just to prove concept...I reverted to what I am guessing the original looked like (multiplying the highlight and lightening to flatten response)

Then I did the overlay option and desaturated...simple really.

the orignal is a little flat.
the overlay is glowey but also too saturated.
the final is with a glow but not over saturated.

Richard_Lynch · #10 03-21-2009, 12:40 PM

Also, the test image...

hawkeye60 · #11 03-21-2009, 01:38 PM

My quickie try:

Tareq · #12 03-21-2009, 02:19 PM

My try:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3442/28689846.jpg

EddieVedder · #13 03-22-2009, 01:17 PM

Hey Richard,

thanks a lot for your support. I did think about selecting highlights and midtones, but I never had the idea to put blur the layer so it always looked too hard. Do you think the colorization is only done with color-balance? Anyway, I think I am gonna buy your layers-book, looks a lot better than those books we have in Germany. Greetings to NY MArtin

Richard_Lynch · #14 03-22-2009, 01:41 PM

The coloring may be done in a variety of ways...for example, creating a sepia version of the image and then placing that above and lower the opacity to let some of the other color through. I think there are not necessarily any absolute answers to the 'one way' this can be accomplished. Every image is different and the goal should never be to apply a set formula. There are base considerations to make for techniques, but those should be made so they can be adjusted and varied as per the needs of the given image.

OK?

Richard

Peter S · #15 03-22-2009, 02:15 PM

A quick one from me, using mainly render lighting effects, selective colour, added noise and usm

Peter

lxgalang · #16 03-25-2009, 11:06 PM

Here's a couple of tries...

shift studio · #17 03-26-2009, 09:42 AM

my quick try (2 mins)
included highpass overlay, soft light curves, and photo filter, hue and saturation

--shift studio

lxgalang · #18 03-26-2009, 11:45 PM

One more time

malao7 · #19 03-27-2009, 01:39 AM

How to get this briliant look?
i very interested in touchup photo.

mepaulus · #20 03-27-2009, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddieVedder

Feel free to photoshop with this ugly guy below and give him that brilliant look:-)

2nd Version is my attempt.

Had a go , i think i got somewhere near by making a sepia copy semi transparent ,messed with contrast then duplicated merged layers and blended with soft light.

lkroll · #21 03-30-2009, 01:08 AM

Just don't forget to wear your sunglasses if you go outside. Kept on the copper side (but gold wouldn't be too difficult).

holgaman · #22 03-31-2009, 09:34 AM

Here's a quicky attempt. I opened in ACR, adjusted the color by sampling the shadow on his shirt and playing with the sliders, slid up the recovery somewhat (maybe 20-30) and then the fill to around 45 (looks bad at this point). I then played with the black and contrast. Before opening in PS I brought down the vibrance and saturation to where it looked OK. In PS I did the sepia layer thing and darkened all around the edges and dodged his eyes slightly.

dude2010 · #23 03-31-2009, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EddieVedder

Feel free to photoshop with this ugly guy below and give him that brilliant look:-)

2nd Version is my attempt.

WTF!!! Hey Eddie - my Canon EOS 5D does exactly the same magenta shit to all my pictures! The first sec i view them in LightRoom the look awsome, and the sec after, the are litterally fucked like yours, magenta, red, contrast everything is about wrong!
Does anyone know away round this!?

My freind who also shoots raw, but uses Phaseone and Hasselblad - his images are soooo crisp, out of the camera! Why?!

image one is raw - two is edited for two million hours in lightroom...

holgaman · #24 03-31-2009, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dude2010

WTF!!! Hey Eddie - my Canon EOS 5D does exactly the same magenta shit to all my pictures! The first sec i view them in LightRoom the look awsome, and the sec after, the are litterally fucked like yours, magenta, red, contrast everything is about wrong!
Does anyone know away round this!?

My freind who also shoots raw, but uses Phaseone and Hasselblad - his images are soooo crisp, out of the camera! Why?!

image one is raw - two is edited for two million hours in lightroom...

Dude,
I don't use Lightroom so this is just a guess. Check your preferences and see what colorspace you have the raw conversion set to, it may be something other than AdobeRGB.

dude2010 · #25 03-31-2009, 01:41 PM

It is of cause AdobeRGB...!

holgaman · #26 03-31-2009, 07:33 PM

Dude,
I'm not really understanding your response. Did you mean 'It is of course AdobeRGB', or did you mean is 'because of AdobeRGB'? If it is the first of the two versions, I'm also not understanding the additional three periods and exclamation point. Was this something I was supposed to surmise without knowing anything about you or your level of expertise? Many people of many skill levels visit this site and it is impossible to know where everyone is with their expertise. When answering a question I do not assume anything and do my best to phrase the answer in an informative and non-condescending way. You asked a question, I attempted to answer it. This forum assumes were all on the same side, searching for the greater knowledge from the community. Please explain you answer.

dude2010 · #27 04-01-2009, 03:10 PM

Mann,
Lot of words Freud... I meant, of cause, thourght it were obvious in here, to shoot AdobeRGB?! Sorry! The same thing happens to Eddie - someone proberly had a solution, and you don't or what?
By the way this thread isn't about this! I would love to know the answer to the warm tone my self.

I have tried B/W adjs. layer with auto grayscale and the default warm tone selected, made it overlay mode and then 30 percent fill...

holgaman · #28 04-01-2009, 04:12 PM

Dude,
Sorry. Your warm tone looks pretty nice. I used hue/saturation set to colorize with the hue at 30 and saturation at 25. Looks pretty close to yours, but you can tweak it later. Photo filter works too choosing a custom color.