New retouching style

[MartinBabies]

I'm learning a new retouching style. Inspired by the photographer Dave Hill, who I love, and his way of editing his photographs. These are just the two first attempts though, so they are not at all as impressive as his, of course. He's a fucking pro. :P

Self portraits!!





Skin tones in that second one are scary! xD Made on purpose of course. Just experimenting..

[Coolman]

ha ha awesome! Rabies I'd say yours are pretty close to pro, whats involved with this technique?

[MartinBabies]

Ha, thanks man. Hmm, first off HDR, then Shadows/Highlights in Photoshop, lots of contrasts, skin retouching, color adjustments and more.

[robgasm]

I could tell what you'd done to it lawl, the shadow/highlight always leave the "halo" around the subject, boss tool though.

Also some channel mixer in there? Allows you to change the colors completely, its bossh. Nice photos too, you are teh secks.

[Sushi]

wow very cool looking effects. do you have a link to that guy you mentioned? i'd like to see what your talking about

[MartinBabies]

The halo effect is from the HDR processing, not Shadow/Highlights. Maybe a little, but mainly from HDR. No channel mixing was used. Only color layers were Hue/Saturation and Photo filter (sounds n00by, but I find it very useful and simple, I use it all the time).

http://www.davehillphoto.com <3 Hardcore shit coming up!

[robgasm]

oh rofl, didnt realise. Btw, need to speak to you on msn about the HDR =) =)

Shadow/highlights is basically HDR but without making it look teh pwn (its good if you just need to slightly change highlights and/or shadows)

and hue/sat slash photo arent nooby lawl =p I use like everything on the adjustment menu =D

[Papa]

Those are some sweet pictures. That dave guys is amazing too! I can see why you want to try that. His pictures look crazy cool.

[konfusion]

You look like the hulk in nr2

-konfusion

[MartinBabies]

Well, I wouldn't call it "basically HDR". Rather "fake" or "wannabe" HDR. :P It has nothing to do with the dynamic range, it just looks like it. But it's a really useful tool and you can get a really professional result with it!

Yeah, Dave Hill is one of my favourite photographers, that's fo sho.