Dave Hill Look
The Dave Hill Look is an evolution of the HDR (high dynamic range) imaging. HDR is a style of photography that allows a greater range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image. The effect is sort of a 3D image that shows more accurate and realistic representation of real life images. The Dave Hill Look (popularized by no other than Dave Hill) presents a gritty look with high degree of contrast and colors that bring life to the images. To see the works of Dave Hill, visit his site at http://www.davehillphoto.com/
There are many ways to get this effect out of a raw image. You can use Photoshop or Lightroom to adjust saturation and contrast, apply high pass filters, dodge and burn to get that increased contrast look or you can also use a Lucis Art plug-in for a one click processing workflow. Whatever workflow you may want to use, the important thing is that you must have the right image to begin with. To start with, you must have an image with high contrast already. The key to this should be lighting. Providing hard light sources on both sides may do the trick. For workflow on postprocessing, visit this sitehttp://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1094#comments
Here’s my take on the Dave Hill Look.
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Lomography
The Lomo was a cheap and poorly made Russian camera that gained popularity in the 1990's. In the early 90's, a group of students discovered this mass produced camera and found it too cheap and easy to use that they shot rolls and rolls of film disregarding the rules of photography. The resulting photos were poorly framed, out of focus, oversaturated, and odd looking due to the cheap lens, but they were surprisingly nice and fresh. This started the Lomo craze, a style of photography that focuses more on capturing moments rather than composition. Lomography presently has a base at Lomography.com and thousands of followers across the globe.
Locally, one can purchase a lomo camera starting around Php 1000. But if you want to create a lomograph without purchasing a lomo cam, you can certainly digitally post process an ordinary photo to make a lomograph. You may add vignette, selective blurring, and increase saturation and contrast to your picture to produce a lomo looking photo.
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My attempt to create a lomo image.