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A HollyWood Light Challenge

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I'll be honoured if you think my attempt is worthy of your post in another forum !!!

Regards
Andrè (without an "a") (LOL)
 
Remember the lighting forum that started this yesterday. I did a quick grab of my daughter with doorlight and now I want to really turn it up. I love your work and I love the shot you did for me here and the one that followed is Par excellent.

You mentioned barebulb. As we speak i have my Bogen with a snoot and 3 barebulbs on stands thinking about how to attack this one.
I almost never put my flash work but will give it a try with this style.

My wife looked at me and said you have that look in your eyes Fred.

I said yes, now put on some garters grab a glass of wine and fire up a cigerette.
She ran out the door....................Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I am gonna put some thought into this and then maybe call a nieghbor over.
Any suggestions.

Thanks, Fred
 
Fred:

Another great post and a great picture of your Daughter. I simply converted to B/W then applied some PWL to highlight areas of the face, hair and clothing as I envision the Hollywood photographers would have lighted the scene. Here are both full-size and cropped versions:





Regards...

Allen
 
Fred,
Here's what I did:

1. Duped the original layer.
2. Desaturated to create a BW
3. Duped the original layer (color) again then moved it to the top of the stack.
4. Changed blend of the top (color) layer to Soft Light.
5. Added a layer mask.

6. With a small brush and black, painted over just the iris/pupil of her eyes. Now they should be grey (showing through to the BW layer.)

7. Used Alt-drag to copy the layer mask onto the BW layer. That cuts a hole through it as well to the original layer so her original eye color shows through.

I tweaked some other things, vignetted the corners, added some noise for grain, and put a 50% grey layer on top where I painted the window blind effect.

Glad you liked it. I'm still learning...
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I bout a book called CREATIVE PHOTOSHOP LIGHTING TECHNIQUES by Barry Huggins. It contains tutorials on many ways to play with the lighting of your photos including "creating shadows from object," "creating fog," "creating candlelight," the two I think will interest you more would be "creating retro studio portrait lighting" and "creating a film noir lighting style." You might also be interested in casting a reflection of a stained glass window for a wedding photo. But there are many more in varying degrees of practicality. (Why you would want to create light through smoke and steam or cast a radioactive glow escapes me.)

The book is from 2004 and probably uses CS or PS 7. I bought it on a whim and have never tried to follow any of the tutorials, but they seem well done, with many screen shots and views of the layers and channels palette as you go along.
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Kate
 
Thanks Fred. Glad you liked.
Here is what I did, more or less.

1) Levels - adjusted till I got the highlights and shadows where I wanted them.
2) Hue/Saturation - Desaturated and adjusted lightness a little
3) Channel Mixer - Adjusted sliders for each color till I got what I liked
4) Image - Duplicate

5) On the copy I ran a toner action (select selenium and run action) action can be found here. It's called TLR B&WToning.
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/photoshop-tools.htm

6) Placed the saturated image over the selenium image and adjusted opacity till I got the amount of selenium I wanted.

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Pino
 
Fred, you said Greta Garbo. So I found this one on the net.



Then I tried to mimic what I saw. I think maybe I made it into the ballpark.



Best,
-- Marty
 
Heck Ya Marty. Homerun. I don't know how much of the post you followed but I want to get some shots that look like the old HollyWood lighting style. I'm easy to please. Anything old that has proven itself for so many years. Old world classic and This type style are my 2 hot items to work on. Don't know what the next one will be but I'm getting the itch to do more.

Your shot does have the gretta look. I was on the lighting forum and put a reply to some others showing Hollywood style work and I said as a joke "I guess I better do a shot to show you all how its done...................seeing I'm old enough to remember (LOL) I did say I was kidding and loved the work i saw but was not seeing the style that I thought to be Hollywood. A couple thought I was arogant and I apologized cause I'm not that way. I did say I would try to do it my wau though. No flash and natural light. a hour later I got this shot. Now I'm hooked and wanna try more. Next time I better keep my big mouth shut.

Thanks for your extremly Gretta look.
Fred
 
It seems like forever since I posted anything here ... and ... I am bucking some great work here ... but ... whatever. To begin ... you have an absolutely lovely daughter. She is very much Hollywood herself. Here is my shot at it ... :-)



wiz
 
By next year we might have enough to do a whole news stand. (LOL)

Sam your work is great but these books are so much fun to look at. I love the way you think it out and when you do your rendition with one of the pictures they seem to work perfect in your books. Do you think about that as your doing the picture or do you just get lucky cause thye look well planned out.

Thanks alot Sam, Fred
 
Great shot here, it has a Illustrated look with a creammy smooth look also while still keeping the Hollywood look . Thanks!
Fred
 
Wiz you trying to raise the bar cause that is clean, well woked and the tilt, the frame all fall together perfectly. Thanks you for your kind words and don't stay away anymore. Wellcome back and thanks again Wiz
Fred
 
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