Vega Retouching wrote:
HDR Photography with a little retouching

i agree its hdr done well i just took a hal schmitt seminar on how to do hdr  and his photos look like this but better..  im looking into the lepp institute

Vega Retouching wrote:
HDR Photography with a little retouching

I agree w this one too!

Vega Retouching wrote:
HDR Photography with a little retouching

I doubt that HDR (tone-mapping) had anything to do with this image.  There is zero detail in the blacks. 

It looks more like simple luminosity masks to deepen/block-out the shadows.  The yellow tone could be done with a curves layer, solid color layer set to softlight/color/screen/or any other blending mode if masked well, Variations, or any of another few dozen color correction/shifting tools.

An answer from the photographer that took the photo will yield the best possible response though.  We can only guess and theorize on how it was done.

A slice of oblivion wrote:
It looks more like simple luminosity masks to deepen/block-out the shadows.  The yellow tone could be done with a curves layer, solid color layer set to softlight/color/screen/or any other blending mode if masked well, Variations, or any of another few dozen color correction/shifting tools.

You would do the yellow with a curves layer and not just slap a color layer over it that's yellow?

Andrew Thomas Designs wrote:
You would do the yellow with a curves layer and not just slap a color layer over it that's yellow?

Go into individual channels and tweak the curves just like you normally would.  Hit the RGB (or CMYK) channel dropdown (Blue and Red for RGB or Cyan and Magenta for CMYK - since the image wasn't necessarily a pure yellow hue) and adjust accordingly.  This also works for color corrections with obvious color casts. 

Since it's done through Curves, you can tweak the highlights, shadows, or mids individually.  Throw in a series of Luminosity Masks on those curves and you can start really tightening up exactly where those color casts end up.

For an image like this, I would probably just use a solid color layer and adjust the opacity and blending mode until I got the look I wanted.  But you would have a bit more control with a curves layer.  The question would then be whether or not you needed that extra control.

Duncan Hall wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petaphotography/3553733512/

Do I get a photograph to look like this?

Thanks in advance.

Take pictures of a model in a graveyard with blach and white film. That may not be the only steps, but from previous photoshoots in a graveyard, that would be my suggestion.

Wendy Fryer wrote:

Take pictures of a model in a graveyard with blach and white film. That may not be the only steps, but from previous photoshoots in a graveyard, that would be my suggestion.

there you go

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Vega Retouching wrote:
HDR Photography with a little retouching

Yeah... but also some curve adjustments to certain brightness levels to darken the tone without losing detail.