Dave Hill effect - sailing photos

PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
edited June 2, 2008 in Sports
The Dave Hill effect is detailed here:
http://limeliteimages.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/dave-hill-tutorial/

Thanks to Michael Kirk for turning me on to this cool effect. I've been having some fun this morning playing with it with a few of my favorite shots. It definitely works better with some than with others. I'm attaching a few that I think take best advantage of it.

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  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    Another...
  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    And another...
  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    Two more coming...
  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited May 31, 2008
    last one...
  • brncr6brncr6 Registered Users Posts: 90 Big grins
    edited June 1, 2008
    1st and 3rd
    THe 1st and 3rd photos are awesome. Really showing motion and action. Very good captures.
  • stromhammerstromhammer Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
    edited June 1, 2008
    Very nice! I've looked at this set of photos several times now and keep coming back to the 2nd. Very good work.

    Thanks for sharing.

    David
    To the man who only has a hammer in the tool kit, every problem looks like a nail. -Abraham Malsow-
  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited June 1, 2008
    Very nice photos and processing. I like this recipe quite a lot, will give it a try.

    On Lightroom Killer Tips, there was a similar video and free presets:

    http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/presets-my-new-auto-fix-preset/

    I think this preset overdoes it a bit, but give it a try
    Photos
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited June 1, 2008
    The second shot reminds me of something from Voyage of American Promise.
    Don't know why. But it does. Maybe it's the solitary nature of the shot?
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  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2008
    Thanks for all of your kind compliments about my work.

    I found I needed to customize this effect for each photo to get the right look--it couldn't be totally automated. In about 90% of the photos I tried this with, I found I didn't want anything near 100% fill light, as it says in the instructions on the web page. That was way too much, unless I was missing something else.

    That second shot is my friend Phil MacFarlane competing in a singlehanded ocean race last year.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited June 2, 2008
    PeterLyons wrote:
    That second shot is my friend Phil MacFarlane competing in a singlehanded ocean race last year.
    Nice thumb.gif Transpac?
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  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    Nice thumb.gif Transpac?

    No, in that case it was one of the Singlehanded Sailing Society races to the Farallones or the Lightship buoy or something... I can't recall now exactly which one.

    Wait 'til July this year! We'll have several days with racers departing under the Gate bound for Hawaii.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,942 moderator
    edited June 2, 2008
    PeterLyons wrote:
    Wait 'til July this year! We'll have several days with racers departing under the Gate bound for Hawaii.

    I guess it's time to go find a Latitude 38 for the dates :D
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  • PeterLyonsPeterLyons Registered Users Posts: 158 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    I guess it's time to go find a Latitude 38 for the dates :D

    Yep! Of course, the calendar is online too, at latitude38.com.
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