My technique...check it out

[calvin Hollywood]

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Hello All
Many people ask me how i get this kind of contrast....well... its pretty simple

First you need soft light... this picture was lighten with the sun behind the clouds

in the pp you need 3 tools

dodge (the lights) and burn(the mids) to give the contrast

unsharp mask with high radius (to raise the contrast)

and the color correktor.. to reduce the hue and give the colour you like

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Quesitions???

more before/after on my page
http://www.calvinhollywood.de

P.S Sorry for my bad english

lg Calvin

[jayhan]

Calvin,
Thanks for the tips, and this is something which is really awesome! Good stuf! *thumbs up!* :D

I was just wondering how did you dodge the highlights, and also burn the midtones? Did you do this selectively based on the overall photo colors? This is because I see a uniformly processed of dodging and burning.

Thanks!

[noordin]

Great! Like Jay, I too need to know. Please elaborate.

[stockie]

Excellent shot and great treatment.

Please share......

[qqmeng]

impressive...totally awesome!

[ckii96]

Excellent job and info! :thumbs_up:

[derickuan]

Wow! Looks like canvas painting....awesome!! :thumbs_up:

[calvin Hollywood]

its difficult to explain.... i do dodge and burn part to part... not the whole picture with one step
dark zones i give some light... and bright zones i ll give some dark...

damn... can somebody talk german*smile*?

lg Calvin

[moshpit21]

u can type it in German, we still can get it translated from internet,
but one thing i'm afraid of, the moderator will come and say "this site's primary language is English" :D

j/k

nice information :)

-peace-

[dwaynefoong]

Thanks for sharing. the treatment is nice!

looks like a painting.

[potatoe]

how did you dodge the highlights, and also burn the midtones?

masking ? =)

[sharontansw]

its difficult to explain.... i do dodge and burn part to part... not the whole picture with one step
dark zones i give some light... and bright zones i ll give some dark...

damn... can somebody talk german*smile*?

lg Calvin



Hallo Calvin,

Danke, dass Du uns Deine Technik verraetst. Wir freuen uns wirklich sehr darueber und ich wuerde gerne noch mehr erfahren. Tut mir leid, dass wir hier kein Deutsch sprechen.

Vielleicht kannst Du ja einen Uebersetzungsseite verwenden, diese ist recht brauchbar: http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/.

Ich hoffe das hilft.

Gruss,
Sharon :D



dear moderator.. i think i'm bored.. so i wrote this.. i'm just telling calvin that we don't speak german & recommend him to use the dictionary translator.. don't shoot me ya.. cheers ;)

[moshpit21]

oder Sie können dieses auch versuchen.

http://babel.altavista.com/

mr moderator dont shoot me too :D

-peace-

[kiankheong]

Das ist sehr gut!!! :D

[galee]

This is really impressive. Is there any website to see the steps? Don't mind sharing?

[calvin Hollywood]

@Sharon
Vielen Dank für den Übersetzer.. der ist wirklich cool*g*

@All

For my picture i dont need more than 3 Layers.

One Layer Dodge and burn and the other layer unsharp mask

You need a picture with details... so if you have a part of a picture who dont have details... work on it... is this detail dark.. dodge the deeps
same to the bright parts

To give a picture contrast... is not more then sharpen.
If you sharp.... take a look that your picture dont get halos.(in this point you can use a mask)

The key in this picture is.... to see and to know which parts you have to dodge and which parts you have to burn... and of course how much

and every picture is diffrent... i needed 6 months to get this style... dont search for a plugin*g*

many plugins give a good final... but always look for the perfekt final*g*

lg Calvin

[andretong]

@Sharon
Vielen Dank für den Übersetzer.. der ist wirklich cool*g*

@All

For my picture i dont need more than 3 Layers.

One Layer Dodge and burn and the other layer unsharp mask

You need a picture with details... so if you have a part of a picture who dont have details... work on it... is this detail dark.. dodge the deeps
same to the bright parts

To give a picture contrast... is not more then sharpen.
If you sharp.... take a look that your picture dont get halos.(in this point you can use a mask)

The key in this picture is.... to see and to know which parts you have to dodge and which parts you have to burn... and of course how much

and every picture is diffrent... i needed 6 months to get this style... dont search for a plugin*g*

many plugins give a good final... but always look for the perfekt final*g*

lg Calvin
:thumbs_up:
Thank you very much for sharing.
If you ever come to M'sia. We will treat you "Teh Tarik", malaysia famous pulling tea. :D

[mobbes]

Cool stuff Calvin! Would you mind if we tried processing your original pic? I mean instead of asking you to spoonfeed us, maybe we can try ourselves & post it for your comment?

[calvin Hollywood]

If the work will stay in this Forum its ok... dont use my Original in other communitys...

so let me see you work*g*

lg Calvin

[seraphangel]

great share Calvin, need to try this out some time, love the final output. :) btw, I'm new here guys, nice community here. :)