Amazing colours

Are you talking about the quality of the light ?
 
No the light is gorgeous, but I am looking at the proccessing
 
They may well be actions for photoshop But the lighting and other phocessing make a difference too
 
JonathanRyan said:
Just push the talent slider all the way to the right and then add localised skill via an edit mask.
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Where can I find that slider? Can I get it permanently attached??
 
I guess no one knows the answer then, very talented photographer, thanks for the comments guys, and trying to help out.
 
There's definitely some kind f preset going on, all the tones and shades are very uniform. Looks bloody good though!
 
It looks like they've used more than one software preset/filter - maybe a combination of two from Color Efex Pro.
 
The girl's got talent and style for sure
If only I could download one of them talent sliders ;)
 
Jango said:
I guess no one knows the answer then, very talented photographer, thanks for the comments guys, and trying to help out.
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It's not that we don't know. It's that it's largely not editing.

Look at the pictures. Most of them have very strong back and side lighting. Also they are shot in very controlled places that have beautiful light and a limited colour palette.

For example this one http://500px.com/photo/30912471 is shot so the dog is coming out of the shadow area right on the edge of the sunlight. No editing will give you that*

After that, it's a simple matter of muting the colours, smoothing some areas and sharpening others.

But the real answer is "start with a picture that looks pretty much like these". Then do what you want. It would be hard to mess them up in post**.

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* well, of course it can but only at the cost of basically painting the image instead of photographing it and with a similar level of painting skill as starting from scratch.

** though I've seen many people try.....
 
I still think she's used some sort of preset combination to produce the overall look - especially in the ones with that straw-coloured wash, e.g. this one (which isn't backlit): http://500px.com/photo/51206232.

Maybe she's started with a technique something like this and refined it: http://www.mcpactions.com/showandte...atte-finish-using-mcp-autumn-equinox-actions/. Note the other before & after comparisons here: http://www.mcpactions.com/autumn-actions.html# and http://www.mcpactions.com/showandtell/early-autumn-look-actions-presets/

Whatever she's done, she's darned good at it.
 
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Ok thanks for the reply's, and Ozei for the links, i think i might ask her, i hope she reads english though, if i get to know from her i will let you know.
I love her work though.

Johnathan thanks, i know what your saying, and get the gist, but some proccessing is tweaking them, but your right the settings everything is fab, along with the light
thanks for helping though
 
I suspect she speaks English better than we can speak Russian. :lol:
 
Do you notice the one great thing about all of these....light... it's all about the light.

I would love to edit the raw files.

Also i think there are a few clever composites in there :)
 
There was a thread about her on here or possibly potn about 12 months ago. A lot of people reckoned it was the glass she uses, a 50 L and 135 L and of course I suppose being incredibly talented helps a lot.
 
The tones in the image are easy to get with layers in Photoshop, but it's the light and composition (including colour selection in backgrounds etc) that makes them look the way they do.

Shoot awesome pictures, then win.
 
Going back to the OP's original post asking about colour could it be as simple as changing the Lightroom WB presets from 'As camera' to 'cloudy' or 'Shady'? That has a similar 'autumnising' effect on foliage etc.
 
135mm f/2 shot at 2.8, combo of natural light and reflectors, no WB adjustments here, she's also added a blur layer in PS to give a false DOF similar to a tilt and shift. She's then adjusted the colours to add a more drab, autumnal colouring which can be done to a certain extent in LR. Color efex pro can do all this but it's not as sharp as PS would be tbh, efex pro also has the focus efex plugin which allows you to shift the DOF if necessary :)

Apart from the above, the photos are perfect, the lighting was perfect and I can't see too much flash used either, this is all about getting the composition right from the start and the autumn sunlight just looks perfect on the subjects.
 
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