Trill Imagery Ent wrote:
What concepts are being used here?

An understanding of exposure, color theory, contrast, saturation and tone.

Leonard Gee Photography wrote:
An understanding of exposure, color theory, contrast, saturation and tone.

And people saying I am mean.

Trill Imagery Ent wrote:
so what would be the workflow of it. not looking for a tutorial,but just basic understanding of it. Thanks

It's a low-key, low to medium contrast image with crush blacks balance toward the blue/cyan/green.

Download that image into photoshop, look at the RGB histogram levels, look at the blue and red histogram levels. Look at what happens to the image when you "fix" the levels with a curves layer.

Trill Imagery Ent wrote:
What concepts are being used here?

The main concept is cross-processing. Here's how to analyze the image to understand what's going on:

https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thre … st15855107

FLEXmanta wrote:
It's all in the curves. Play with them. At first, useless suff will come out. As you repeat the the process over and over again, you'll start understanding. This stuff not about someone explaining it to you, you have to see for yourself over a long period of time so that some new brain-eye-tool wiring starts to emerge. It can take years for one to be effective with curves. Avoid looking at numbers or histograms if you really want to learn.

If you really like this style, it would help that you got inspired by the best examples of it.

The master:
https://www.google.com/search?q=steven+ … 0&bih=1255

Thanks alot....he makes great work

Mark C Smith wrote:
I wouldn't say that photo is particularly smooth. Looks almost over-sharpened to me.

It is massively oversharpened...

Leonard Gee Photography wrote:
It's a low-key

actually it is underexposed about 1 or 1.5 stops. Not really lowkey.

Sergei Rodionov wrote:
actually it is underexposed about 1 or 1.5 stops. Not really lowkey.

1. When you want a properly exposed image and it's dark, that's underexposed

2. When you want a dark image and produce the final with overall dark tones, that's low key

The OP doesn't have the terms and the language right. That's why a understanding of the basics would help them to understand how to achieve the effect wanted.

Image Magik wrote:
I think the op is referring to the smoothness of the color and light medium dark transitions. You can get something close to this playing around in lightroom. Start with matching the exposure. Go in he curves in lightroom and pull down the highlights and lights a bit. pull down the blacks. Play with the shadows slider to get the light/shadow depth you want. Turn clarity up till you get some of that edge/grunge in the picture. Add a blue tint in the shadows with the color tint section:-)

Thanks alot Image

Leonard Gee Photography wrote:

1. When you want a properly exposed image and it's dark, that's underexposed

2. When you want a dark image and produce the final with overall dark tones, that's low key

Underexposed image is not low key, just like the overexposed image or typical silly image on white background, despite general public misunderstanding is not high key.

But thats semantics and this is not really what this thread is about, i would imagine.

FLEXmanta wrote:
It's all in the curves. Play with them. At first, useless suff will come out. As you repeat the the process over and over again, you'll start understanding. This stuff not about someone explaining it to you, you have to see for yourself over a long period of time so that some new brain-eye-tool wiring starts to emerge. It can take years for one to be effective with curves. Avoid looking at numbers or histograms if you really want to learn.

If you really like this style, it would help that you got inspired by the best examples of it.

The master:
https://www.google.com/search?q=steven+ … 0&bih=1255

Well- Pascal is half the master (let's not forget about retouchers )

Mark C Smith wrote:
I wouldn't say that photo is particularly smooth. Looks almost over-sharpened to me.

+1

Just look at model – especially the model’s dress. The only smooth thing is the tub. Most likely the photographer sharpened the photo and masked it so that the sharpening was applied only to the model.

As for the color, this tutorial will show you how it works.

http://phlearn.com/how-to-apply-cinemat … our-photos

The look that's shown in the tutorial is different from the one you asked about - but the tutorial will explain the theory and the how-to.