Technique wanted

Hi,

the images below are not mine. They belong to Jeff Zaruba, winner of the prestigious spider awards for black and white photography.

I don't know whether were captured on film or digital. I'm posting them here (and I hope he wouldn't mind) because I'm very much interested in reproducing that special airy look of his images with PS.
I've tried some filters and blends but the results are not quite the same.
Any ideas?





For those of you interested for more info about the artist or the contest here's the link: http://www.thespiderawards.com/

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http://www.pbase.com/ziskar

Soft focus??

Pavel

ziskar said:

Hi,
the images below are not mine. They belong to Jeff Zaruba, winner
of the prestigious spider awards for black and white photography.
I don't know whether were captured on film or digital. I'm posting
them here (and I hope he wouldn't mind) because I'm very much
interested in reproducing that special airy look of his images with
PS.
I've tried some filters and blends but the results are not quite
the same.
Any ideas?

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ziskar said:

link: http://www.thespiderawards.com/

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Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF70-200 f/4L USM, Tamron28-75 f/2.8,
Tamron17-35 f/2.8-3.5, EFS 18-55, Speedlite 580EX, Manfrotto
0550PRO, SONY DSC F828.
http://www.pbase.com/ziskar

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Pavel

Taraboom said:

Soft focus??

Pavel

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No, is not just that, at least not with Gaussian or blur filters.

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Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF70-200 f/4L USM, Tamron28-75 f/2.8, Tamron17-35 f/2.8-3.5, EFS 18-55, Speedlite 580EX, Manfrotto 0550PRO, SONY DSC F828.
http://www.pbase.com/ziskar

Soft focus + selective color selection blurring on color image

On color image: selected luminosiny, made two dublicates, blurred with GB with differect radius. made a few color selections, copied on a separate layer, blurred.
Merged everything, converted to b&W.

With some additional tweaking, perchaps could get some resemblance.

P.S. Borrowed image from webshots, hope they don't mind extra advertising



Pavel
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Pavel

Diffrent settings



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Pavel

I was able to accomplish a very similar effect by doing the following:

Open the image in Photoshop and Duplicate the image onto another layer (you should have a background and also a layer 1 of the same image)

On layer 1 BLUR the hell out of it, then under your blending modes for that layer place it on MULTIPLY.

He may tweak a few of the setting by doing additional blurs and various blending modes but that is "bascially" how he gets that look.



my attempt..

-sb

Bradford09 said:

I was able to accomplish a very similar effect by doing the following:

Open the image in Photoshop and Duplicate the image onto another
layer (you should have a background and also a layer 1 of the same
image)

On layer 1 BLUR the hell out of it, then under your blending modes
for that layer place it on MULTIPLY.

He may tweak a few of the setting by doing additional blurs and
various blending modes but that is "bascially" how he gets that
look.



my attempt..

-sb

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It's close. BTW what amount of GB do you use? I tried with 70% and 100% but the luminosity drops and I have to adjust with a curve.
Thank you

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Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF70-200 f/4L USM, Tamron28-75 f/2.8, Tamron17-35 f/2.8-3.5, EFS 18-55, Speedlite 580EX, Manfrotto 0550PRO, SONY DSC F828.
http://www.pbase.com/ziskar

...very nice picture!

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http://www.pbase.com/ziskar

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