How can I achieve this style?

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I wasn't sure whether this should go into the Lighting forum or just here, please move if I got it wrong.

I hope I'm OK to link to someone on Flickr as my example, as he's someone I've followed on there for a while. I love his outdoor portraiture, everything seems really light and soft, and I want to try this style.

I have no idea whether it's done on camera or post with a lightroom filter or similar. It's the ones that seem to have a pale washed out light kind of look. It seems he gets really light backgrounds, in particular fields of straw or similar, but the subject is also very light as well lit.

Can anyone give me any tips as to how to achieve this style?

Here are some examples of the style I'm referring to:

Whisper by Friedemann.Thomas, on Flickr

Für immer... by Friedemann.Thomas, on Flickr

Untitled by Friedemann.Thomas, on Flickr

Untitled by Friedemann.Thomas, on Flickr

Untitled by Friedemann.Thomas, on Flickr
 
Each shot has a different look. i think Lindsay might have been talking about the last shot, but that doesn't apply to any of the other shots. In fact, the last shot she was referring was still not a back lit shot. it's just the background was bright, that's all.

Most of them have a different cross processed look. You can achieve a lot of this with Split Toning and White Balance/Tint combination. it's all colours. Play with it, and see what you can come up with.
 
shoot f/2.8 or wider for the shallow depth of field.

there's a lot of dodge processing on the eyes too - almost unnaturally so.
 
There's many ways it's a lomography sort of effect and I've tried to learn it for months and then realised how it was done...Curves.

You have to adjust the curve on each individual channel (Red,Green,Blue) and just experiment. check out my flickr photo "Valve Cross Processed" and it's similar to what you want.

Google "cross processing in photoshop" and you'll find endless tutorials :)
 
mastertrinity said:
There's many ways it's a lomography sort of effect and I've tried to learn it for months and then realised how it was done...Curves.

You have to adjust the curve on each individual channel (Red,Green,Blue) and just experiment. check out my flickr photo "Valve Cross Processed" and it's similar to what you want.

Google "cross processing in photoshop" and you'll find endless tutorials :)
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If in Photoshop, I'd agree, but OP wants to achieve it in Lightroom, from what I understood. Lightroom doesn't have individual channel curve adjustment unfortunately.
 
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