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Posted on 14/10/10 5:55:58 PM |
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yesai
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how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Hi everyone, can anyone please help me. lately i have seen a lot of photgraphers, specially the advertisement one's using this technique that makes the photographs look like paintings, it's not HDR, at least they don't look like, but they look so crisp and sharp and have this "glow" effect all over them and specially in the highlights, i dont know hot to explain it because my english is poor, i think it's a simple thing, maybe like a high pass filter combined with a blending mode or something. can you please help me!!! here i uploaded some examples: http://www.davidsayeg.com/effect.html thanks! |
Posted on 15/10/10 09:59:00 AM |
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trevor
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Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
I just knew you were were referring to the Dave Hill look http://www.davehillphoto.com/ While dave Hill is most famous for this style of imagery, my favourite is Bill Simone who made the amazing The Boxer image. http://www.billsimonephotography.com/ 
The Boxer by cheshirepoet, on Flickr Someone asked about the style in reference to Dean Bradshaw's website in one of the flickr Photoshop groups yesterday, and Dean joined the discussion with a brief overview of how he does his version: http://www.deanbradshaw.com.au/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/photoshopsupport/discuss/72157625022976257/ Dean also has a flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturewa/ Dave Hill has always been fairly quiet on how he obtains the style, but we have always known that it involves LOTS of lights. Dave tends to set up a scene and mark the subject positions, and then photograph them one by one and composite them back into the scene. Otherwise the subjects would get in the way of each other's lighting. Interestingly, Dean says he uses lots of dodge and burn to emphasis the strong contrast, and this is something that surprised me with SC. I have been missing out on how useful those tools are, but am most certainly using them now. |
Posted on 15/10/10 1:35:26 PM |
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Mark Goodwin
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Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Trevor Thank you for sharing this info. As much as I appreciate the skill I have never really been a fan of this process. However, since viewing the websites you have suggested I have certainly opened my mind, and I now have a completely different perspective of the whole process thank you for that! Regards  _________________ Mark Goodwin If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always got! |
Posted on 15/10/10 4:38:02 PM |
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PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
hi yeasai, I appreciated so much the photo examples you showed! I'm a fan of this technic too!! Maybe, it has something to do with this tutorial and other from Calvin Holywood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr12ZfPK2co&feature=related good luck |
Posted on 16/10/10 5:45:58 PM |
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Carlo Alessandro Della Valle
Compositore Eccellente Posts: 100 Reply  |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
wow.... those are great effect... I found a video tutorial if anybody is interesting in.... it's clear enogh to me... hope it's the same to you. |
Posted on 16/10/10 6:43:41 PM |
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yesai
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Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
trevor thanks for sharing, but that is HDR, and the photos that i send to you are not, i saw the EXIF metada and is jst a single image, also the aperture used are around f5.6 in all images, where the sharp overall the image is greater. is definitly a photoshop processing. carlos alessandro, can you share with us that video i will apreciate it. |
Posted on 16/10/10 7:14:48 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply  |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Hi yesai, I'm not familiar with the technique he is actually using but he might have been using this software:- http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconfocus.html It is a piece of software used mainly in photomicroscopy but it can also be used for normal photography to give you an infinite depth-of-field by taking multiple exposures at different focus settings and then stacking them. the software then combines all the images into one totally sharp image. It's possible that he is combining this with lots of lights and some edge sharpening in Photoshop. Hope this helps. Gordon _________________ If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried. |
Posted on 16/10/10 9:51:30 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
Lego Legend Posts: 361 Reply |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Photoshop can do that automatically too. |
Posted on 16/10/10 11:33:23 PM |
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trevor
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Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Yesai, Dave Hill and Bill Simone do composite against HDR backgrounds, but the techniques applied to their forground subjects are still relevant to some of the images you linked to. It's a while since I looked at Helicon Focus, but I have never quite understood why anyone would spend the asking price if the already own a late version of Photoshop. This actually combined 15 frames in three five frame HDR sets using Photomatix and Photoshop's Align and Merge layers feature. http://www.flickr.com/photos/trevor-dennis/3393837983/ Incidentally, there is a nice touch in one of your linked images where the baby is gaffa taped to the office wall which reminds me of a wonderful set of images I came across recently: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/a-father-who-creatively |
Posted on 17/10/10 12:16:39 PM |
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Carlo Alessandro Della Valle
Compositore Eccellente Posts: 100 Reply |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
ooooooops! of course I can share it with you... I forgot to copy and paste the link in my last post  shame on me.
Here we go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKQxvFo4lGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g-QyAIhfJk |
Posted on 17/10/10 12:54:48 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4033 Reply |
Re: how to make this crisp, highlight glow picture-like effect
Hi Trevor, Whilst I am aware of, but don't actually use Helicon Focus or Photoshop's inbuilt version, I would suppose that, as a specialised programme, Helicon Focus offers so much more capability than Photoshop; rather similar to the difference between e.g. Photoshop and Autopano in their respective abilities to stitch photographs together or Photoshop and Photomatix for HDR work. Particularly in a subject such as Photomicrography, for which I believe the software was originally created by a Russian software writer, the automated functions make life so much easier. The ability to automatically render a stereoscopic image for use in the programme's own stereo viewer, in particular, would be invaluable in this field. _________________ Why isn't 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? |