Trying to duplicate an effect

Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu


http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621


There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.


Thanks,
Stephen

Looks like a mix of B+W and saturated colour layers... ? possibly by making
a mask layer from the saturated colours...

Guy

wrote:
Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu


http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621


There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.


Thanks,
Stephen

On May 14, 11:02 am, "Bigguy"
wrote:
Looks like a mix of B+W and saturated colour layers... ? possibly by making
a mask layer from the saturated colours...


Hey, I think you're on to something! I just tried it with one of my
own
pictures and it seems that he/she is doing exactly that. Obviously
he/she does a lot more than that to achieve the final image, but the
gist of it seems to be mixing a colour and a B&W layer. Thanks!


Stephen

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Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu


http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621


There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.


Thanks,
Stephen


the first thing that came to my mind was hdr.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...amic-range.htm

JP

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Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu


http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621


There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.

Allmost certainly orton technique.

Some links:

http://www.naturephotographers.net/a.../dw0106-1.html
http://www.flickr.com/groups/orton/
http://osp.wikidot.com/orton-technique
http://www.michaelorton.com/gallery.html
http://www.pcin.net/update/index.php...p-of-the-week/


Rutger



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Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu


http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621


There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.

Allmost certainly orton technique.

It might have had that done too, but that almost certainly is
not the cause for most of the visible effects obvious at the
above URL.

However, the mechanism are somewhat similar in that it is done
using layers as described in this particular link,

http://osp.wikidot.com/orton-technique

But rather than generate a layer that is a blurred duplicate of
the original, a transparent layer is created and then filled
with a "radial" color gradient. It appears the color gradient
chosen was white to black. The area of the sky was selected, so
the gradient would not exist on other parts of the image.

The opacity of the new layer is adjusted to allow the original
image on the background layer to become visible. The merge can
be done in several ways for different effects.

If anyone wants step-by-step instructions to do that with GIMP I
could come up with a series of maybe half a dozen images showing
each step of the way.

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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On May 14, 8:22 pm, (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
"Rutger" wrote:
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Hi,

I wonder if any of you know how to achieve the interesting colour
effect such as can be seen
in this pictu

http://bertold.zenfolio.com/p1061663...4FB5#860573621

There's a contact email at the person's site, but he/she doesn't
seem to respond to my emails.

Allmost certainly orton technique.

It might have had that done too, but that almost certainly is
not the cause for most of the visible effects obvious at the
above URL.

However, the mechanism are somewhat similar in that it is done
using layers as described in this particular link,

http://osp.wikidot.com/orton-technique

But rather than generate a layer that is a blurred duplicate of
the original, a transparent layer is created and then filled
with a "radial" color gradient. It appears the color gradient
chosen was white to black. The area of the sky was selected, so
the gradient would not exist on other parts of the image.

The opacity of the new layer is adjusted to allow the original
image on the background layer to become visible. The merge can
be done in several ways for different effects.

If anyone wants step-by-step instructions to do that with GIMP I
could come up with a series of maybe half a dozen images showing
each step of the way.


Thank you *all* very much for helping me with this. I have been
able to just about duplicate the effect using steps pretty similar
to what you've described, Floyd. It looks like it's a blend of a
very high contrast B&W conversion in Multiply mode with the
original image. The vignette can either be a mask or a new layer
as you described. Anyway, thanks to everyone for chiming in.


Stephen

wrote:
Thank you *all* very much for helping me with this. I have been
able to just about duplicate the effect using steps pretty similar
to what you've described, Floyd. It looks like it's a blend of a
very high contrast B&W conversion in Multiply mode with the
original image. The vignette can either be a mask or a new layer
as you described. Anyway, thanks to everyone for chiming in.

If you are into people pictures... take an image of a nice
looking female specimen, and entirely mask out the background
with a radial gradient filled background. Try something like a
white to orange or goldenrod color gradient, or a light green
(depends on other colors in the image and the skin tone of the
subject).

Perhaps males tend to look better with a linear gradient...

Note also that while opacity of the layer affects how much of
the background is visible, it is also interesting to adjust
brightness and contrast of the layer too.

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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)