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08/29/2009 06:16:11 PM · #1 |
Hey everyone. I'm trying to figure out how to mimic some processing in a few photos i saw. My friend lives in Greece, and her friend took a bunch of pictures of them out one night... she asked him how he processed them so he could tell me, but I don't use Lightroom. Anyone able to figure out how to maybe get the same sort of effect with Photoshop CS3? I've tried some stuff...but nothing seems to work exactly right for me. Here are a few photos with the effect I'm trying to achieve.
  
Here's how the photographer processed them in Lightroom:
trash processed them in Lightroom: adjusted exposure and added very high contrast, deeeeep shadows, filllight, highlight recovery, high clarity, adjusted hue for red, orange and yellow and finally desaturated it all.
Here's a couple of image of friends of mine for you to give it a try. I'd LOVE to know the steps you use if you can get a similar effect! :) Thanks.
 
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08/29/2009 06:29:20 PM · #2 |
I gave it a go, but not quite the same. I am going to continue working on them though.
 
Oh, and here is what I did:
Gradient layer, set to linear dodge
2 or 3 contrast layers, contrast at 100%
Hue/Saturation Layer, saturation -60
Duplicate b/g layer, and burn everything you want dark
Ok.... I changed the saturation to -75 in each, and it got a bit better.
Message edited by author 2009-08-29 18:34:49. |
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08/29/2009 07:09:19 PM · #3 |
My quick take--I use aperture and the Nik Suite: this was a b/w conversion in ColorEFX , with control points used to maintain some color levels on skin, etc.
Used shadow and highlight sliders, and high, mid, and low range contrast.
Not very close to the look you are going for, I'm afraid. It also looks like the originals were taken in a restaurant or bar, so there were not close walls or ceilings--and those gave the nice deep blacks behind them. As has been mentioned, you could burn to approximate that. |
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08/29/2009 07:39:13 PM · #4 |
Converted to b&w using virtual photographer (diffuse). Made a dup layer, used filter (brush strokes, dark strokes) in photoshop. Used layer mask to bring back her face. |
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08/29/2009 08:57:21 PM · #5 |
I doubt this is what you're looking for but I had fun...
R. |
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08/29/2009 09:11:10 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by chromeydome:
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I like this one, but needs a little sumpin...
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08/29/2009 09:51:49 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by chromeydome:
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I like this one, but needs a little sumpin...
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LOL
Looks like we both need to get lives, eh? ;-) |
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09/01/2009 12:24:59 PM · #8 |
Looks like some of you were getting close to what I was trying to accomplish - I have to say though, Art's is definitely the closest of all. :)
Anyone else want to take a stab at it?
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09/01/2009 08:55:49 PM · #9 |
anyone?
Bueller??? BUELLER?!?!?
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09/01/2009 11:16:21 PM · #10 |
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09/01/2009 11:17:52 PM · #11 |
| u know itd b worlds easier if it were a raw file haha |
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09/01/2009 11:42:57 PM · #12 |
heres a quick 10 min edit that you could just make an action for :)
i know that the backgrounds arent black like your friend's BUT i imagine it was just a darker room with lights only on the people seeing as he/she did all that in LR.
this was done in CS4 but could be done in CS3
duplicate bg layer and set mode to soft light then add a large ( 4.2 px) gaussian blur
simple S-curve
-5 brightness +31 contrast
levels : 12,1.04,178, output 0-255
exposure +.58 offset +.0026 gamma +1.02
vibrance layer : vibrance -100 saturation -60
drawn oval feather 50 px inverse --> create levels layer : 0,.55,255,output 0-255
and thats it. not exactly what you want but if you tried that on a pic of a dark room with overhead lights jsut illuminating the people i would imagine youd get somewhere near the same result he/she did. let me know what you think/ if you try it on such an image
-max |
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09/01/2009 11:54:50 PM · #13 |
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