How is this photo done?

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Jacek Gonsalves
Dec 22, 2003
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Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

Cheers
Jacek

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BlackVelvet
Dec 22, 2003
first off, you need a really ugly guy. so get some one to take a photo of yourself… Next, the blue tones can only be achieved after your copy of PhotoShop has been legally registered…
MR
Mike Russell
Dec 22, 2003
Jacek Gonsalves wrote:
Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

IMHO this image took a non-trivial amount of work to produce.

I would start by adding a hue/sat correction layer, and then playing with the controls as you have described to reduce saturation, and shift the color just a touch toward the blue.

As always, there are several ways to accomplish this in Photoshop. You may see good results also using Image>Adjust>Variations, though this is a somewhat plebeian
tool.

Yet another way is with curves, and in fact I suspect some of the rather striking result of the image is achieved in some measure by curving to achieve greater variation of the tonal areas of the face, and reduction of the shadow and increased contrast on one side of the face.

Other things were done too. For starters, a wide angle lens was used to create that up-close feeling. The person may be a model, or at least be posed in a professional setting, since it’s unusual to get that intensity of expression with good lighting, composition, choice of lens, etc. by chance.

Back in Photoshop land, the image may have been extracted from the background, and there appears to be a bit of brush work along the left side of the image, and clever use of blurring and sharpening to direct your view to the man’s wolf-like eyes.



Mike Russell
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bigmatt304
Dec 22, 2003
there are involved ways to due it in photoshop. But this was done with a photo filter.

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
stand alone or plug in.

As to photoshop. select channels , blue, go to brightness contrast, brighten up blue. go to rgb darken whole picture . then gausian blur about
0.5. You can also go to colour balance but it doesn’t seem to work as well.

Plenty of other filters too , but mediachance is the closest thing I’ve seen to an actual photo filter for effect.
freeware also.

"Jacek Gonsalves" wrote in message
Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

Cheers
Jacek
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Voivod
Dec 22, 2003
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:50:59 GMT, "Mike Russell" scribbled:

For starters, a wide angle lens was used to
create that up-close feeling.

I’d say it’s a Lightwave or other 3D product rendering.
BH
Bob Hatch
Dec 22, 2003
"Jacek Gonsalves" wrote in message
Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

Cheers
Jacek
Long lens to produce shallow DOF. Soft white or silver reflector to the right side of the face. Light measured to produce 3 to 3.5 to 1 lighting ratio. If it was a digital camera a slightly yellow white balance card could have been used to "blue up" the image, or auto white balance with a very overcast day could produce the same effect. Just guessing, there was very little PS work done and a lot of very good photographic skills had a more to do with the image than PS.

"Secular nations have one thing in common — mass graves, and the reason is that they believe the government is the final arbiter of right and wrong and good and evil." –Rob Schenk http://www.bobhatch.com
PF
Paul Furman
Dec 22, 2003
Some interesting suff on there:
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/leatherman.jpg
http://www.matthoyle.com/icebergs.html#

Pretty good photography

Bob Hatch wrote:

….a lot of very good photographic skills had a more to do with the image than PS.
BH
Bob Hatch
Dec 22, 2003
"Paul Furman" wrote in message
Some interesting suff on there:
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/leatherman.jpg
http://www.matthoyle.com/icebergs.html#

Pretty good photography

Bob Hatch wrote:

….a lot of very good photographic skills had a more to do with the image than PS.
I’ve sent an email to Matt Hoyle asking him how much PS is involved. I for one hope he answers and will let him be the final judge. 🙂 —
"Secular nations have one thing in common — mass graves, and the reason is that they believe the government is the final arbiter of right and wrong and good and evil." –Rob Schenk http://www.bobhatch.com
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Stephan
Dec 22, 2003
"Harkord F." wrote in message
there are involved ways to due it in photoshop. But this was done with a photo filter.

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
stand alone or plug in.

As to photoshop. select channels , blue, go to brightness contrast, brighten up blue. go to rgb darken whole picture . then gausian blur
about
0.5. You can also go to colour balance but it doesn’t seem to work as
well.
Plenty of other filters too , but mediachance is the closest thing I’ve
seen
to an actual photo filter for effect.
freeware also.

Filtersim is a great little tool, I have been using it for a while and I love it.

Stephan
BH
Bob Hatch
Dec 22, 2003
"Jacek Gonsalves" wrote in message
Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

Cheers
Jacek
The answer from the artist:

Thank u 4 ur vote of confidence. U r correct. I use photoshop with no guilt whatsoever but i take pride ghm my work as a true photmngrapher and only use it as minimaly as i can. I dodge and burn and sharpen and print 4 contrast. The only color treatment i do is to slightly desaturate. I use the white reflective properties of the pool as fill from below which gives a pleasing unique look. John’s eyes and the stormy sky in the background were a similar tone. I burned them 2 accentuate the mood. I also believe part of what makes the shot unique is the rapport i have with the subjects and the quality of subjects themselves. Thamk u again and as i am away at the moment cmuld u pass this on 2 the newsgroup. Happy holidays!

— original message —

Subject: Your Images

From: "Bob Hatch"

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:38:06 +0100

Great stuff. There is some question on one of the newsgroups regarding how

much Photoshop manipulation you do with your images. The one that is in

question is in Icebergs and is johntherussians.jpg. Also the leatherman

image.

So, if you care to share. Photoshop or better than excellent skill. I’m

voting for the second.

Merry Christmas.

Bob Hatch


"Secular nations have one thing in common — mass graves, and the reason is that they believe the government is the final arbiter of right and wrong and good and evil." –Rob Schenk http://www.bobhatch.com
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Auspics
Dec 23, 2003
Either you are one smart arsed fellow taking the mickey out of the group or you really have never photographed cadaver. Anyone who has ever been in a morgueor watched CSI would know this body is not standing upright. Doug

"Jacek Gonsalves" wrote in message
Hi all,

Can I get someone to explain me how someone can get this result in Photoshop?
http://www.matthoyle.com/images/icebergsjohntherussians.jpg The photo is somehow desaturated, dodging/burning and a cold blue tone is added?
Any help would be appreciated! 🙂

Cheers
Jacek
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Skee
Dec 23, 2003
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:26:16 GMT, Voivod wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:50:59 GMT, "Mike Russell" scribbled:

For starters, a wide angle lens was used to
create that up-close feeling.

I’d say it’s a Lightwave or other 3D product rendering.

No, I’d still say it’s an actual photo–but the background seems a little improbable, leading me to think that the subject was possibly chroma-keyed to begin with.
JC
J C
Dec 23, 2003
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:50:59 GMT, "Mike Russell" wrote:

IMHO this image took a non-trivial amount of work to produce.

Everything you’ve said might be true.

But I’m sure we’ve all see images this striking that were the product of simply a good photographer using standard film and lighting.

— JC
MM
max morrison
Dec 23, 2003
"Skee" wrote in message
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:26:16 GMT, Voivod wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:50:59 GMT, "Mike Russell" scribbled:

For starters, a wide angle lens was used to
create that up-close feeling.

I’d say it’s a Lightwave or other 3D product rendering.

No, I’d still say it’s an actual photo–but the background seems a little improbable, leading me to think that the subject was possibly chroma-keyed to begin with.

The background is Bondi Beach in Sydney. The guy in the photo is a member of the Bondi Icebergs, a bunch of people who go swimming in the middle of winter. Being Sydney, however, there’s little likelihood of there being any ice in the water.

http://www.matthoyle.com/icebergs.html#
http://www.icebergs.com.au/

mm
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DjD
Dec 26, 2003
Good eye! My first thought was Bryce 3-D in the background. There is a small paint program that I have/had that looked a lot like the early Adobe Photoshop. It was in a bundle of software I got when I bought, Poser4 or a Wacom Graphics Tablet. The program is called, Painter Classic, from MetaCreations. It has an incredible range of lighting presets, both colored or natural. Anywhere you put a light on a 2-D picture, it reads the picture and change the depth. Darkening the deepest areas and by varying the color contrast, it makes 2-D, look like 3-d. I have seen other paint programs with lighting presets, but none like Painter Classic. I know that sounds like a sales pitch but its not, I doubt you could even get it from them any more. MetaCreations, is the company that puts out Bryce, Poser, Carara, Painter 3-D, and a few more.

DjD

"Voivod" wrote in message
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:50:59 GMT, "Mike Russell" scribbled:

For starters, a wide angle lens was used to
create that up-close feeling.

I’d say it’s a Lightwave or other 3D product rendering.
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Hecate
Dec 27, 2003
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:09:00 -0600, "DjD" wrote:

Good eye! My first thought was Bryce 3-D in the background. There is a small paint program that I have/had that looked a lot like the early Adobe Photoshop. It was in a bundle of software I got when I bought, Poser4 or a Wacom Graphics Tablet. The program is called, Painter Classic, from MetaCreations. It has an incredible range of lighting presets, both colored or natural. Anywhere you put a light on a 2-D picture, it reads the picture and change the depth. Darkening the deepest areas and by varying the color contrast, it makes 2-D, look like 3-d. I have seen other paint programs with lighting presets, but none like Painter Classic. I know that sounds like a sales pitch but its not, I doubt you could even get it from them any more. MetaCreations, is the company that puts out Bryce, Poser, Carara, Painter 3-D, and a few more.
The new Painter is even better. There’s just no software like Painter. It’s specialised, but if you need to make watercolours, oils, whatever, there’s just nothing else that will do.



Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui
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DjD
Dec 27, 2003
It sounds like, I need to take a look at Painter. If it is even better, than Classic was, I will need a few valumes.
Thanks for the tip.
DjD

"Hecate" wrote in message
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:09:00 -0600, "DjD" wrote:
Good eye! My first thought was Bryce 3-D in the background. There is a small paint program that I have/had that looked a lot like the early Adobe Photoshop. It was in a bundle of software I got when I
bought,
Poser4 or a Wacom Graphics Tablet. The program is called, Painter
Classic,
from MetaCreations. It has an incredible range of lighting presets, both colored or natural. Anywhere you put a light on a 2-D picture, it reads
the
picture and change the depth. Darkening the deepest areas and by varying
the
color contrast, it makes 2-D, look like 3-d. I have seen other paint programs with lighting presets, but none like Painter Classic. I know
that
sounds like a sales pitch but its not, I doubt you could even get it from them any more. MetaCreations, is the company that puts out Bryce, Poser, Carara, Painter 3-D, and a few more.
The new Painter is even better. There’s just no software like Painter. It’s specialised, but if you need to make watercolours, oils, whatever, there’s just nothing else that will do.



Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

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