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poeticRogue Photography
Posts: 30
Conroe, Texas, US
I really love how smooth and creamy, soft the colors are. I use a lot of programs, including Adobe Lightroom 4, and I have yet to achieve an edit like this. I am about to start editing a wedding session and I would like to first get some tips in the right direction, thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0exf9v9nl5gbz … 318291.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vi4wksfjb0xww … 373607.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/08wutow7ip6zr … 650554.jpg <- especially this one
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nndnzslloja58 … 990144.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mam4ivczyg0xh … 821179.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjone9b3p1vzt … 898628.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r8jf0aw0ysxm … 277948.jpg
Aug 26 12 08:21 pm  Link  Quote 
Photographer
Darryl Varner
Posts: 544
Sacramento, California, US
This is just a guess, as I haven't tried this, but it may not be particularly difficult. It appears to me that the entire photo has a color cast. If I was going to try this, I'd start by sampling the color of an area in the picture that was probably white in the original (the light on the floor in the doorway, for instance.) Next I'd do a fill over my image and fade it until I got the mix I wanted.
Aug 26 12 08:37 pm  Link  Quote 
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NothingIsRealButTheGirl
Posts: 27,928
Los Angeles, California, US

poeticRogue Photography wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/08wutow7ip6zr … 650554.jpg <- especially this one

My guess is the area on the floor was 100% detail-free clipped white and it's been remapped to that color.

Same with the inside of the elbow screen right. That was clipped white.

Blacks seem slightly warmed - red, actually - and fogged.

midtones are more orangey

highlights are yellowy

Aug 26 12 08:38 pm  Link  Quote 
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NothingIsRealButTheGirl
Posts: 27,928
Los Angeles, California, US

poeticRogue Photography wrote:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r8jf0aw0ysxm … 277948.jpg

In this one the blacks are plum-purple

Try a gradient map mixed back and laid on top. Or curves.

Aug 26 12 08:45 pm  Link  Quote 
Photographer
NothingIsRealButTheGirl
Posts: 27,928
Los Angeles, California, US
Read this. See what you think.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=348771
Aug 26 12 08:52 pm  Link  Quote 
Retoucher
Digital Soup Retouch
Posts: 1,433
Los Angeles, California, US
Its called split toning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLD8KLS-CE
Aug 26 12 09:01 pm  Link  Quote 
Photographer
poeticRogue Photography
Posts: 30
Conroe, Texas, US
Awesome! What do you mean when you say clipped as in clipped white?
Thanks for pointing me to that tutorial. I have saved it, I will try it, and I will post here tomorrow I am done with the photo =]
Aug 26 12 09:15 pm  Link  Quote 
Retoucher
Peano
Posts: 3,717
Washington, District of Columbia, US

Digital Soup Retouch wrote:
Its called split toning!

+1 ... also called cross-processing, easily done with curves.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?threa … st15855107

An example using one of your target images (right) ...

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6867/cross2r.jpg

Aug 27 12 06:43 am  Link  Quote 
Photographer
poeticRogue Photography
Posts: 30
Conroe, Texas, US
Wow that's it! Thanks for the link as well
Looks like I have more learning to do
Aug 27 12 09:14 am  Link  Quote 
Photographer
poeticRogue Photography
Posts: 30
Conroe, Texas, US

Peano wrote:

+1 ... also called cross-processing, easily done with curves.

http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?threa … st15855107

An example using one of your target images (right) ...

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6867/cross2r.jpg

did you save the preset or psd file I can have? I can't get close to that. I am still trying

Aug 27 12 09:31 am  Link  Quote 
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