alexander_strbac Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I tried contacting the owner of this site but I guess the man is a fulltime working pro so has got no time to reply to questions like this, and I dont blame him. So, I understand you need to have a fairly well captured image, lit with probably a flash with small dish od gridspot or something to control the light spill, but how do you make the skin look like this? Yellow filter, color balance, desaturate reds, burn/dodge tool...? ANY help greatly appreciated cheers P.S. This is from jeremy Cowart site (www.jeremycowart.com), I absolutely love that guys work! By the way... what do you think - does he do most of the work in camera (be it digi or film) or is it all in the postprocess? Somehow I doubt that you can get this kind of wuality onl with PS...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Use a selection tool to select the face. Then brighten the selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emre Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Compress the highlights with Curves: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/photoshop-curves.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessica_smith9 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I also prefer to do it with strobes and camera settings. Bring the model closer to the lights, or the light cranked up, set the camera for over exposure, and you've got bleached and over exposed skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessica_smith9 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 PS: That also looks like he dodged it in photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_dube Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Emre ~ thanks for the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark pav Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Another way: create a channel mixer adjustment layer and set the output to red. Click on the monotone square and then change the blend mode to luminosity. Adjust the opacity as necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron l Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Looks like he snooted a strobe and blew out the face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Screw up and overexpose with flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimstrutz Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 It is always strange what another considers to be art. I don't like it, but obviously others do. I look at it and think Steven Clark is right. It's just another poorly exposed picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 <I>It is always strange what another considers to be art</i><P> I live in The States but my sister lives in London. She was looking at some of my shots here on PN and went ga-ga over one that I think is one of my worst shots, ever.<P> She asked me for a print, so I said sure. Then I couldn't find the damn file anywhere. So I had to go back and <I>re-shoot</i> this photo that I don't like, just for her.<P> I won't say which one it is, but so far all of my friends and family are rather amazed she picked that one too. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacy Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I like this shot too. To me it looks like a ringlight- overexposed- brightness pulled down and some shadow/highlight...plus a lot of desaturation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert lee Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 This effect is very easy to do with portraits fair skinned people. 1. Duplicate the image into a new layer and select the red channel. 2. Change the merge mode to "screen". 3. Adjust opacity of the layer to suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander_strbac Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Dear Steve and Jim (and the others of course) thank you for your replies. I can't, however, agree with you. It is not a bad picture because this guy surely knows what he is doing (judging by his other works) so I'm guessing this is on purpouse. And it looks nice to me so thats why I am trying to recreate it. It is simply a matter of taste. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimstrutz Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I completely agree with you, Alexander. I'm sure it was a deliberate attempt at art on Jeremy Cowart's part. I just cannot fathom why anyone one would like it, is all. Clearly, they do though. It all comes down to that "taste" thing, and I can't, for the life of me, understand why no one else in the world seems to have any. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgar_njari Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 overexpose the face by any means, either in photoshop (by blowing it out) or with light, and then bring the white level down. It can also be done by simply brightening the image then using curves tool to compress highlights by "bending" the top end of the curve down in a kind of a logarithmic manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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