How to achieve this look?

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Quite a simpleton's question really, and I'm not looking for a step by step guide.

I really like this 'look', and was wondering what sort of approach I should take?

Image 1 :

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Image 2 :

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Bonus points if you recognise where it's from ;)
 
pretty much by playing with the saturation and levels to get the soft water colour type vibe, and maybe using a bit of guassian blur to acheive that soft focus effect. (the top one also looks to have had a soft vignette added)

if you want to acheive it in camera life will be harder as you'll need low angled light usually from a relatively low sun shining through the occasional gap in fairly thin clouds to give the water colour like effect , and a relatively soft focus lens

I've sort of got the same painterly effect here
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Cheers :)

It's more the colouring I'm after.
It has that warmth and tone of a golden hour sunset, but with some muted blues and greens......

I'm colour blind though :D
 
layers of colourised tones blended perhaps?
 
its pretty much like i said - the warmth and tone of a golden hour sunset comes from having low angled light - the greeny bluey hues are as a result of shooting something thats largely bluey green - ie the sea with the reflected sky - you can't easily replicate that in post, but you could try tweaking the hue slider in adjustment layers - hue/saturation
 
Cross process?

Boardwalk Empire - excellent show, I want more. :D
 
What software do you have? In something like Lightroom it's quite easy, as there presets that are close to it and then you just tweak the contrast levels and have a play with the cyan/blue channels. There also looks to be a vignette on there too (on the first shot).
 
Assuming you're literally just talking about the colours, you could achieve that look just by throwing a colour balance layer in photoshop and increasing the cyan channel. Obviously, a vignette has been added as well, and possibly a bit of low opacity white added with the brush tool on a new layer set to screen blend.

At least that's how I'd do it.
 
Ooooh thanks for that Flash :)

Thanks also for the other replies. too.
Pat, I have LR3 and CS5, I had a feeling it was the cyan/blue channels, couples with low, late sunlight giving it a warm yet blue colouring.
London...thanks I'll give that a try :thumbs:
 
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