Help with creating this style of processing? Bleach bypass?

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone could offer any help with the method of editing that is like this...

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http://theo-graphics.com/blog/category/houston-coffee-and-cars/

Am I right in thinking these are achieved by using some form of bleach bypass?

I am a big fan of this style but can't seem to recreate it in my photos.

thanks

Sammy
 
That is mostly in the lighting not in the processing.
 
There's a lot going on in the processing.. you'd get a lot of the way there by adjusting the black point in the tone curve. Pulling it right to deepen the blacks and then raising it to fade them.

There's a hint of a greenish hue as a split-toning in the shadows, and maybe a slightly more blue but less intense hue in the highlights.

The colour tone is partly the light, partly a warmed white balance and probably some individual colour response adjustments.


With all attempts to emulate a style - if your original image isn't shot with the intention of recreating that style, having analysed what makes that style work, what circumstances and settings you need, then you're probably wasting your time. If you want to get an overcast day in Huddersfield to look like the golden hour in Texas you're going to need some serious on-location lighting. You won't do it on the cheap in post.
 
Would I be correct in thinking that the OP has something like On1 Perfect Effects installed (which includes a bleach bypass effect) and hoping that one of the filters included might simply produce this type of image?
 
If you're in LR, look in the "Camera Calibration" section of the develop module, it's the one right at the bottom. Moving the Red Hue into the negative will start to produce this effect, though as someone else mentioned the late evening light contributes a lot.

Then you want to go to the curves section of the develop module, and raise up the bottom left of the curve so it sits a little way up, essentially making the black slightly grey. You have to set the point curve to "Custom" to allow this. Keep it straight, just raise the lower left control point vertically a little.

Provide a RAW or JPG you want to apply it to and I can provide an XMP with all the settings if you'd care for it.
 
sduk said:
I use photoshop. Would it work in that? thanks for the help
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Afraid not, but if you open the lightroom file I linked to in Notepad you can see the values so it would be possible to do it in Photoshop.
 
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