wich PP has been used?

fede07

Hi at all,

wich type of Post production has been used in this images? there are specific plug in to obtain that effect, or are particular steps by Photoshop?


http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=1419&Itemid=223&type=&selectedIndex=6&bandwidth=high

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=1431&Itemid=223&type=&selectedIndex=3&bandwidth=high

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=1420&Itemid=223&type=&selectedIndex=0&bandwidth=high

Ty so much for your help.

Agnieszka

Hm, I don't know, to me it just looks like he/she played around with the levels (darkened the whites, and darkened the blacks) & desaturated the colors? Maybe he/she applied a light draganizer filter too (just google draganizer, and I'm sure you'll find something)? That would have been my guess .... The photos don't seem to have much color, nor contrast to me

pathfinder

The boxers and sports shots seem to have a very heavy handed vignetting as well.

I agree that the levels seem to have been flattened slightly as well.

fede07

pathfinder wrote:

The boxers and sports shots seem to have a very heavy handed vignetting as well.

I agree that the levels seem to have been flattened slightly as well.

for the boxers i'm agree: it's a vignetting handmade. but for the first link, i don't know how can obtain that colours, they seems desaturated and contrastated...

pathfinder

fede07 wrote:

for the boxers i'm agree: it's a vignetting handmade. but for the first link, i don't know how can obtain that colours, they seems desaturated and contrastated...

Desaturated via the Hue/Saturation command, perhaps? Contrast boosted with a steeper curve or an Overlay blend.

That particualar image looks too magenta on her face to me, and I wondered if there was some green tint in the window as well.

I was surprised at the heavy hand used for the vignettes, myself, as some photojournalists feel any image manipulation is verboten. My son works on the Indiana Daily Student, and they are not allowed to even alter the curve or do a blend of layers to improve image legibility, and no vignettes at all.

fede07

absolutely true!! but i saw that in this moment in italy every kind of journal use this Post-production, also WPF. great contrast, super vignette and colours desaturated. There isn't a photoshop or lightroom actions that makes these effects?

Mnemosyne

Pretty sure I some straight dodging and burning

pathfinder

This post shows images that look similar to me, might ask him about the actions he used

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=127584

AAABluestocking

I got this look by accident when trying to duplicate the LAB curve look described in the snow processing thread. Convert to LAB and then on the Lightness curve flatten it in the dark area.