Portrait Effects

[tsienni]

and pro models...look at the body on the girl with the scanty fur coat ! I bet he isn't a mamber of PPA LOL

haha, you do have a sharp eye, Akjack.



Glamourfish, I had a very similar question when I saw Egill Bjarki's work here in Pbase, so I understand you perfectly!

http://www.pbase.com/egillbjarki/photo_a_day_2006

Unfortuantely I have zero competence to answer your question myself, so I can't be of help, but out of curiosity, I went to your site and checked some of your people galleries. You have such a fine sense of color! It appears to me you have developed your own visual style. Now I'm curious how the look/feel/toning is achieved in your "extreme" gallery, eh..OK, I shall refrain from asking, too. But anyway, good work you've done!

[iaspire608]

nobody really answered this question, because it does not just look an HDR effect that was used to obtain this style of PP

[andrys]

It's done through a whole lot of Photoshop. You just have to experiment a lot and find what works for you. I once asked someone I know here how he did it, and he sort of created a semi-automatic workflow to do it. But it's hard, and you need to work into the details of your photo.

Look at these, I love them, although they may be too sharp for the taste of some of you.

http://www.pbase.com/lens/people__my__favourite_photography

Yiannis is a really marvelous photographer. As for people, I especially like this one of his:
http://www.pbase.com/lens/image/85138704
and this one:
http://www.pbase.com/lens/image/75042633

He may go for ultimate sharpness (in a way we don't quite usually see in
real life) but there are few of those halos or unnatural buildups and it
does help us 'focus'...