haha sergio's method is pretty baller! haha what a mess.
Kudos to serg for basically throwing the sauce right out there for free!
By flattening and adding it again and again you can achieve some pretty epic results. for sure.....whiles till maintaining shadow and highlight detail as well as correct color balance.
wow
hardlyboring wrote:
haha sergio's method is pretty baller! haha what a mess.
Kudos to serg for basically throwing the sauce right out there for free!
By flattening and adding it again and again you can achieve some pretty epic results. for sure.....whiles till maintaining shadow and highlight detail as well as correct color balance.
wow
i haven't tried it, but instead of flattening and repeating, couldn't you just drop it below -6 or does it start looking weird?
ya it looks weird. you clip the black big time. but if you flatten you can gradually do it and then also balance in the other colors to achieve the "color balance" you want.
This method is genius really because it is so simple. If a similar thing could be done in LR (I am sure it can I am just not into figuring it out) it would be so good for certain shots. I never EVER use PS anymore. So this method, albeit fun and entirely to easy, is just to time consuming for every day use.
I do not have access to my LR/Photoshop box from here....
but it was my recollection that the tone curve in LR was hue/saturation locked, if that is true, then switching to a linear tone curve and moving the left most point up 6% should do the same as what sergio suggested.
I will have to test it out tonight. If it is much different, I may have to alter my methods (I use the tone curve in LR and often pull the whites down a touch as well as adding an s curve set to reduce contrast in the skin tone range). I certainly do not achieve the magic that sergio does.
You can get effect while raw converting already, in raw photo processor. Skip the tone curve completto tutti and work in L*, blacks minus 1 or so, contrast minus 2, convert.
capture one have pretty powerful selective color editor. also if you really need to be consistent, it can keep skin color between several shots aprox same even if you start going weird
Hum... I'm really digging this. Not done to extreme levels to really "copy" a style... but just to give the images the appearance of having more dynamic range.
Here's the shot Mark posted... left is the slightly less contrasty version done using an action I've been working on ever since Sergio spilled the Selective Colored Beans
so here's one I *REALLY* like... which proves two things:
1. Photoshop kicks LR's ass and eats LR's lunch while doing so
2. You should always document what the heck you're doing while experimenting lest you come up with something you dig and then have a super-hard time reproducing it
thanks!
