David Robin Munn wrote:
his signature style.

This is usually the reality. You may get close, but a 'signature style' is created from start to finish with lights, models, makeup, hair, photograph, and post work. Anything short of replicating each and every move perfectly will prevent
you from achieving Philipe's style, genius that he is.

David Robin Munn wrote:
I think that Philipe is a genius, and I love his signature style. I pulled this image for the fact that it an amazing example of a clean desaturated fashion shot. I have seen lots like this. It's more the photoshop effect that I'm interested in. The subject matter of the picture could be anything.

The thing is it is all him. Here is a shot of mine, of the same model, but with me trying to incorporate more of Philipe's color signature into it. It was not one thing I did, but hundreds of small things. And it is not a perfect replica of his color, because it really is HIS color. Mine is too dark, and there are parts that are too contrasty. There are great differences between the two, and I am not a beginner at this.

make-up, hair and lighting make a difference.






and the original image



and my color signature for the series

Star wrote:

The thing is it is all him. Here is a shot of mine, of the same model, but with me trying to incorporate more of Philipe's color signature into it. It was not one thing I did, but hundreds of small things. And it is not a perfect replica of his color, because it really is HIS color. Mine is too dark, and there are parts that are too contrasty. There are great differences between the two, and I am not a beginner at this.

make-up, hair and lighting make a difference.






and the original image



and my color signature for the series

David Robin Munn wrote:
I love this image. It's really beautiful. How did you get the color saturation on the first image?

I spent 20 mintues in camera raw tweaking tone curve, temp/tone, the hue/sat/lum, played with recovery and fill light, the  duo-toning and vibrance vs. sat. Really it is something you have play with.

After that I retouched the image for another 45 minutes, and I layered a second camera raw color palate onto the background.

David Robin Munn wrote:
I absolutely love the feel and effect of this image, but have yet to be able to replicate the effect myself. I have experimented with photo filters and desaturating the image, but have yet to see an exact match. Any ideas or tutorials that any of you could offer would be most appreciated.
Cheers

I can tell you something that no one here has mentioned...
That has a lot to do with the lighting and tone of the model..
Personal message me....
When you see my port after I give you my answer..
It will make sense and it relates to everything.
and its not post production.
It whats done during the shoot; set up technique ..
In fact it ads in post production...

David Robin Munn wrote:
Not one person with an opinion?

I think you've come close to the original that you posted.

The thing that struck me about the tone in the original is that I'm sure they tweaked the color balance to infuse that coolness rather than manipulate saturation. Have you experimented with that?

Madison-Clark Digital wrote:

I think you've come close to the original that you posted.

The thing that struck me about the tone in the original is that I'm sure they tweaked the color balance to infuse that coolness rather than manipulate saturation. Have you experimented with that?

I did play with that a little. It was a combination of that and playing around with RAW. Just a hodge-podge of tweaking without any clear direction really. I'll need a lot of practice. Photoshop can be an obsession.