How to get an image like this !

vata · Jan 29, 2014

Hello guys,
Can anyone tell me how I can get a picture to look like this ?

http://s28.postimg.org/xeoc46e4t/heldercouto.jpg

It almost looks as if it's a painting !
Any ideas how it's done ?

thanks.

runnah · Jan 29, 2014

Looks like the brenizer method, with some polarizing and HDR thrown in for good measure. Then again it might just be a wide angle from a high position.

vata · Jan 29, 2014

Doesn't look like Brenizer to me

anyway.. I'm talking about the effect that has been used to achieve the final image and not how it was shot.
any more ideas ?

Derrel · Jan 29, 2014

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Image has been darkened, and then selected areas have been lightened, to force the eye to go to those lighter spots. It's a VERY, very old photographic trick, and it works on the long-understood idea that in visual perception, light advanced, and dark recedes. Her dress, being the absolutely lightest spot in the entire frame, just JUMPS OUT at the viewer.

vata · Jan 29, 2014

I see Derrel… but what about the fact that the entire image looks like a painting ?? it doesn't really look like a real image.. do you know what I mean ?
if you look at the trees or the floor, there is almost no texture ! was the picture blurred ???

480sparky · Jan 29, 2014

Way too much DOF to be Brenizer. Looks like an ultra-wide (15, 18, 20, 21mm) shot heavily processed.

The_Traveler · Jan 29, 2014

vata said:
I see Derrel but what about the fact that the entire image looks like a painting ?? it doesn't really look like a real image.. do you know what I mean ?
if you look at the trees or the floor, there is almost no texture ! was the picture blurred ???

Multiple aggressive passes with a denoiser will produce something like that.

vata · Jan 29, 2014

do you think I can do that if I apply a lot of noise reduction on lightroom ?

KmH · Jan 29, 2014

The photo has a vignette and IMO the painting like look you mention is from a healthy global boost to the mid-tone contrast of the photo.

weepete · Jan 29, 2014

Even up the exposure decreasing highlights and increasing shadows, add a big contrast boost, set white point to retain detail in clouds, bring black point back to only just blow out the shadows in a few places, tone map using curves to fine tune, add adjustment brush to dress to boost the exposure to 8th zone while retaining detail, selective darkening and lightening to areas to even it up more, another local contrast boost to bring back some contrast in places, sharpen with mid range detail, mask out edges and add enough noise reduction to smudge the noise.

tirediron · Jan 29, 2014

As you can see, many roads lead to Rome; it's a matter of understanding the tools that you have an knowing how to achieve your vision using them.

tarochele · Jan 29, 2014

A lot of dodge and burn from what I can see. May be using some photoshop templates purchased from other photographers or presets in Lightroom. They are all over the internet nowadays, some for free and some for $$$. I'd venture that it is an HDR processing as well as the dodge and burn techniques. Just my humble opinion.