Amazing Dave Hill photo PP technique

[song_hm]

I like the PP look Dave Hill has created for his Adventure Girl series.

Does anyone have any idea or suggestion on how to recreate it?

There are links to some of the photos:
beach
Cliff
Sunet

[MPrince]

I'm not a big fan of photographs that don't look like photographs, but to each his own.

Try googling "the dave hill look" or go to the flickr strobist.com discussion group and search for "the dave hill look". You should get plenty of hits.

[Niki]

nevermind, MPrince beat me to it =)

[IsaacEastgate]

looks like the kind of stuff you find on deviantart.
The lighting and effects are extremely inconsistent and there is just no subtlety or beauty to it...

[song_hm]

Originally Posted by MPrince

I'm not a big fan of photographs that don't look like photographs, but to each his own.

Try googling "the dave hill look" or go to the flickr strobist.com discussion group and search for "the dave hill look". You should get plenty of hits.

His high sat high contrast images are too much for me too. But I do like the latest Adventure Girl series. The strong highlight technique is not present in the Beach girl, but the vivid tone and imagery is unmistakable.

Thanks for the strobist pointer.

I tried the double high pass filter technique in Strobist can be useful in its own right.

[song_hm]

Originally Posted by IsaacEastgate

looks like the kind of stuff you find on deviantart.
The lighting and effects are extremely inconsistent and there is just no subtlety or beauty to it...

I make it a point to study techniques from those who are successful, most of the time I learn something new. From this research, it turn out Hill's technique is useful for punching up certain flat low contrast image, and pushing good image up one notch.

From BradLey Marshall:
before: BEFORE on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
after: on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

before: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/...b054415de7.jpg
after: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2212/...7393de4a97.jpg

I don't think you can fault this from Maria Flash. Or this from Noid.

[Jodokast96]

There were photos on that site?

[krypticide]

I really like the style. It comes across more on the "art" side than the "photograph" side (not that the two are mutually exclusive).

[ivoire]

Appreciate the question, examples and solution. Always open to new ideas/techniques

[schmik]

Why be so negative... I like it and if don't then you don't have to say "it's not photography".

mike

[Class A]

I've never seen Dave Hill images beflore but I enjoyed them. Good fun. Definitely more fun that fashion photography ... but then what isn't?

[lithos]

Landscape photography?

[kenyee]

I like the Dave Hill look when applied to models in specific contexts as well. A lot of studio/advertising photos are so heavily photoshopped nowadays (way more than the old film days when you could only do simple stuff like dodge/burn) that you wouldn't believe what the original looked like.
Now I have to go look for a nice sunset sky that I can photoshop into a swimwear shoot over the weekend that had totally cloudy skies :-P

[Arpe]

They're pretty cool, but I don't like them. They look like drawings.

[song_hm]

Originally Posted by Jodokast96

There were photos on that site?

From Dave Hill Photography, mouse over the left hand side of the page immediately under the title "DAVE HILL PHOTOGRAPHY". The photos are darkened until the mouse hovers over.