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Anonymous
Question...
How the hell do I get photographs to come out like this?
It was taken with a Canon, I'm thinking a Canon Rebel.
I mean the colors and everything. Is it a certain kind of filter or feature?
>> Anonymous
could be photoshop
>> Anonymous
Might be a fisheye
>> Anonymous
>>51069
Can just a fisheye lens do that much for the photo? I'm just curious as to how the color in this photo is so darn neat and how to get mine like that.
>> Anonymous
Looks like someone modded a peephole onto a lens to get that extreme fisheye effect and distortion. The colors are either photoshop or the result of funky development with the film.
>> Anonymous
Almost certainly post-processing.
>> Anonymous
Fisheyes only add the dramatic barrel distortion effect.

Colors might've been a filter (maybe a polarizing filter? they tend to greatly enhance color saturation) or photoshoop (most likely).
>> Anonymous
>>51070

what do you mean by "neat" colors exactly? be a little specific?
>> Anonymous
>>51072
I was wondering about that!! I thought that maybe the picture was not taken with a digital and that it was genuinely from a film camera. I'm still bent on trying to get a digital to give me the same effects.
>> Anonymous
>>51073

doubt it was a polarizer. I could be wrong but ive never heard of a polarizer of a fisheye
>> Anonymous
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>>51074
Well, it's hard to pin what I mean with this. But just look at this photo, then look at another regular unedited photo and you see the difference. These kinds of pictures appear sharper and more bold, I guess.
>> Anonymous
>>51077

in photoshop you can do that easily by uping the contrast and color saturation..
>> Anonymous
>>51075
You can do post-processing on film too...
I doubt this was done in a darkroom, but I've scanned prints and negatives and edited after.

I think if you cross-process some film (develop slide film as though it were color negative) it fucks with the colors, but this doesn't look like that.
>> Anonymous
>>51078
I've tried that and the results just never look the same -- perhaps I should give it a try with Adobe, I have an ancient version of paintshop I use to mess with color levels and such.
>> Anonymous
>>51080

do you have a particular picture youre trying with?
>> Anonymous
I'm sure you can figure it out if you fuck with levels, curves, saturation, etc. in PS for long enough.
>> Anonymous
>>51079
This might sound like a stupid question (forgive me I'm a little new at this :(!!) but what exactly do you mean by post-processing?
>> Anonymous
>>51084
Nevermind, I'm retarded. LOL
>> Anonymous
>>51084

its the things you do to a picture after you take the picture itself
>> Anonymous
>>51084
Basically anything you change in the photo after it's been taken (e.g. contrast, levels, etc.). Photographers were doing the same things we do in photoshop long before computers were around in the darkroom.
>> Anonymous
>>51081
Not at the moment.
>> Anonymous
If it were me, I think I would try to take a similar picture (and by that I just mean a picture of a person outside during the day, don't try to duplicate the photo) and then mess with everything in photoshop (or paintshop). If the colors start to look closer to what you're going for, keep doing what you're doing. If they're looking too different, try something else.

I notice that there seems to be a very low saturation of red. Green seems to be the dominant color, and blue after that. Try working with that maybe?
>> Anonymous
in the first picture... :

- curves were changed to allow for more contrast (upping black to a very dark grey also)
- slight change in color balance
- replace color with around 5 feather.. the darkest color was changed to a muted dark red.


that's it
photoshopping photos is very easy, this guy did with his photos almost exactly what i do with mine..
made it very easy to tell you what steps he followed.
>> Anonymous
>>51090
Pretty much it.

But where did you find these photos? If you still can't get it quite right or if you still think there's a chance that this was done with filters, etc., you could contact the photographer and he could give you a rundown of the steps he took.
>> Anonymous
wow, i think this has been the most courteous thread ive seen on /p/ in all my two months browsing it
>> pixle !YlHXuPBxBQ
>>51077
lrn2photoshop
>> Anonymous
>>51092
yeah, pretty much
>> Anonymous
>>51090
>(upping black to a very dark grey also)
>replace color with around 5 feather

Could you explain how to do the first and what the second is? I would also like to have some photographs I've taken look like this.
>> Anonymous
facepalm.nef
>> Anonymous
make a sugary frosting, wipe it on the lens,burn the fisheye lens a little, polish it off with shoe shiner, then add some alcohol
>> Anonymous
>>51092
notice how right after you said that the assholes came in
>> Anonymous
>>51090

i like using selective color.
all of your post processing options in one convenient locale.

also: piling selective color adjustment layers on top of each other is a shit-ton of fun.
>> Anonymous
OP looks like a shitty lomo fisheye.