What program is needed to do these photo effects?

k6pax · May 15, 2013

Hello, I have been wondering what the name of this graphic effect is as well as what program that is needed to do them. Here is the link to the photos: https://www.facebook.com/beyondthebuzzer?fref=ts

If anyone has any idea please let me know! Thanks for your help.

412 Burgh · May 15, 2013

Photomatrix. I only looked at the thumbnails but they appear to be HDR photography.

amolitor · May 15, 2013

You're not supposed to post pictures that you don't own, according to the terms and conditions which you agreed to when you joined.

The program is probably photoshop. The technique is probably radical curves adjustments and saturation adjustments.

TCampbell · May 15, 2013

You're new here. The mods will likely ask you to take the embedding images out of your post and replace it with links to the site where the images appear.

One of the rules (not just this site... almost any photography site) is not to post images unless you own the rights to the image (which almost always means you can only post an image if you took it.)

The images resemble very heavy, overcooked HDR (High Dynamic Range) -- but there are many variations on HDR. Some HDR can look fairly natural (that was the original intent). Then people realized they could go crazy with the effect and create very unnatural / surreal images.

HDR is normally only done on images that are relatively still because it requires taking several shots of the same thing. But there is a variant way to get these same effects with just a single image.

Dao · May 15, 2013

It is not a one step process. And they some what close to the style of Andrzej Dragan photos.

So search for Dragan style and see if you can find more info.

KmH · May 15, 2013

You'll have more luck if you look for Photomatix (no r).

Photomatix Pro 4

amolitor · May 15, 2013

Dragan is just a "contrast to the mids, cool tones, sharpen, and desaturate" guy. Maybe he is *the* guy, I dunno. It's a look that's around, though, and it's pretty well understood. It's finicky to get it looking nice.

This stuff is straight up tonemapped. Which, contrast-to-the-mids is a mild version of, to be sure. Consider it to be a violent version of Dragan's look, without the cool tones and desaturating.

Why can't people get HDR and tonemapping straight? They're not the same thing any more than a hammer is the same thing as a nail or a house.