Photo postprocessing effect for colors

[a.argonyx]

Dear experts,




I see sometimes photos with vivid beautiful colors taken in clubs or stage, with flash. It is obvious that the result is achieved using some effect and I would so much like to find out how to achieve it.




I attach an example of what I mean.
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As you see, the colors of the clothing are vivid but the skin remain natural or I would even say that also the skin has a nice texture.




I have tried different combinations in Photoshop, including vibrancy. But I don't seem to be able to reproduce such thing. Most of the time the effects also destroy the skin.
You see, there are two things: first is the skin texture, it doesn't shine. Then there is this uniform color on the guy's clothing. It looks like the color bandwidth has been shorten or shifted, I don't know.
I am pretty sure that this is no effect one can achieve using basic manipulation, there must be some special process.
So I'm pretty sure it is a plugin. Also because I know that these photographers publish hundreds of photos already the day after a party, it would take much longer to work manually on all these details.




I appreciate any advice on how to achieve a similar result from my RAW photos.




Cheers,
Andra

 

[Ysarex]

Flash diffuser and flash raised above camera.

Joe

 

[a.argonyx]

Flash diffuser and flash raised above camera.

Joe

There is much more then that, Joe

I have already imagined the lighting aspects during the shot and tried indeed to use an off-shoe flash with diffuser, of course. But in order to achieve a kind of result like that, it takes much more at postprocessing side.

 

[amolitor]

The exposure is spot on, for one thing, getting that black top just barely inside the exposure range.

It looks to me like a light grunge effect. You can do this with a lightly applied unsharp-mask with a large radius, a curves adjustment to push contrast into the right tonal ranges, and usually a bit of dodging and burning.

 

[480sparky]

...........I attach an example of what I mean..............

As you're stating you don't know how to create the look, does that mean you don't have the rights to use the image you attached?

 

[Ysarex]

Flash diffuser and flash raised above camera.

Joe

There is much more then that, Joe

But nothing special. As Amolitor noted it's a nailed exposure -- well diffused flash high off camera. Beyond that it's processed high contrast and likely with a lean on micro contrast (clarity) and some burning work to even out the flash exposure. Proper use of portable flash is the dominant characteristic with an (assumed) competent exposure.

Joe