How to get this kind of look?

Jason.C · Jan 4, 2012

Image1

Untitled by Luis Lima - HDR, on Flickr
Image2

WATCHING TV AGAIN by Stephane BETIN, on Flickr

The tone and texture just beautiful! I wonder they have done something else apart from doing the standard HDR trick!

Compaq · Jan 4, 2012

I'm guessing #1 is a one-image "HDR-processed" photo. High in saturation, contrast and clarity. I'd think there are too many moving objects too close for several exposures

Generally, they seem to be high in both local and global contrast. That invisible cat in #2 is sort of scary, LOL. Defined edges, saturated, glowy/shiny. Not sure how to achieve that...

vipgraphx · Jan 4, 2012

First one looks like basic tonemapping

Second one looks like heavy tonemapping and heavy saturation.

WOW did not see that cat..good eye

kousPhoto · Jan 4, 2012

I had to go back to see the cat too....kinda adds a whole new level to a "Where's Waldo" sort of game....lol
(I did not have anything to add to the original poster's question)

Jason.C · Jan 4, 2012

WoW~~ haha you saw the cat. I didnt even realise it.

Jason.C · Jan 4, 2012

Glowy and Shiny as you mentioned, are they both in photoshop filters?

Compaq · Jan 4, 2012

Jason.C said:
Glowy and Shiny as you mentioned, are they both in photoshop filters?

No idea, I don't use filters that much. Maybe there are plug-ins, Topaz for example...?

katerolla · Jan 4, 2012

Topaz, Topaz Labs - Video and Image Enhancement Software

MissCream · Jan 4, 2012

Does not see cat.

Jason.C · Jan 4, 2012

thanks for heaps of your help

sm4him · Jan 4, 2012

MissCream said:
Does not see cat.

Lower left part of photo, by the coffee table.

My absolute favorite book when I was a kid was a book titled "The Nine Lives of Opalina the Cat." The cat had lived through all these generations of people in the house...only the children could see it, though. And it told them stories about all the people it had lived with before.
Several of the illustrations looked Just Like this cat.

So, to achieve at least that part...just go find the house where Opalina the Cat lives and take a picture.