Ethereal, surreal editing

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Hello everyone!

Lately I've found myself very inspired by Brooke Shaden's work (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/) especially her very early work. As I'm coming up with a lot of unique ideas and stories that I'd like to shoot I'd also like to try to play around with her style of editing (still trying to find my 'artsitic voice' so to speak).

A few direct questions:

1) how can I use colour curves to get a similar effect?

2) If I need to hold something up in an image (say... book), but want it to be almost floating later on, how to I remve my hand? How do I use layers to overlap both myself sitting and 'floating' books?

3) How can I get the 'painted effect'?

I hope these aren't too vague. I've been trying to google and try a lot myself on photoshop (elements at the moment, soon to upgrade), but seem to be stuck!

Many thanks!
 
Theres a lot of different effects going on in these images, theres not a simple quick answer, some of the shots have what look like HDR type effects, others look more like actions.
Can you pick a few pictures to narrow it down a bit.
 
Theres a lot of different effects going on in these images, theres not a simple quick answer, some of the shots have what look like HDR type effects, others look more like actions.
Can you pick a few pictures to narrow it down a bit.

Of course, no problem!

(I do know how the theory behind HDR works, which is a start, but as far as I'm aware she doesn't work with HDR)

http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/3121829008/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/3165418592/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/3555920018/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/4961537660/in/photostream

http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/5442000223/in/photostream

Also, there are many of her pictures that feature her hair blowing up in a way that could only be photoshopped. Again, how?

Many thanks for your help!
 
some of the links not working for me.
the light collector, some desaturation and curves ajustment, plus lighting?.
hygiene, this looks like it might be a diffused shadow effect but again theres something with the colours possibly curves.
 
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