Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it?

[petersweden]

Hi

I love Joel Grimes all white look. Any ideas on how to achieve something similar like his photos below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelgri...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelgri...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelgri...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelgri...in/photostream

Regards

Peter

[Nasturtium]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

I don't know how he does it but Natalia Taffarel does it like this

http://vimeo.com/13374387

[skoobey]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

White brush and paint. No matter what do you do to desaturate the image, you will need to trace the original highlights in order to contour the face.

[kav]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

White brush and paint. No matter what do you do to desaturate the image, you will need to trace the original highlights in order to contour the face.

You're partially right there. If you establish the high key nature to the lighting, you can just then tune the color to fit.

[petersweden]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

White brush and paint. No matter what do you do to desaturate the image, you will need to trace the original highlights in order to contour the face.

Paint on new layer and change blend mode to colour?

[kav]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

Paint on new layer and change blend mode to colour?

This shouldn't even be a question. What you suggested is the same thing as saturation -100 set to color mode. If you assign anything blank fill color with 0 saturation in color mode, you get a greyscale image. This should not be a surprise.

[Johann29]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

In Non technical terms how? im also interested in this!

[skoobey]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

Desaturate and then on a new layer at normal or overlay or lighten or luminocity paint white to enhance the contours.

[Johann29]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

Thanks skoobie gonna try that out.

how bout natalias way? is it the same?

[skoobey]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

It's the same, look more carefully at madrita's video.

[Johann29]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

I guess this can only be done effectively with a model that has been lit high key.
how did he make the background all white?

[petersweden]

Re: Joel Grimes all white look - how does he do it

I guess this can only be done effectively with a model that has been lit high key.
how did he make the background all white?

It is probably a composite where the background is shot separately. He usually shoots HDR backgrounds.