very interesting photo! How to do such effect???

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Hello everyone! Have you ever seen such s photo. It's very interesting. Does anyone know how to do that!!?? Thanks for any advice

This is the address to the picture (just add www):
photo-shop.pl/photographers-murgrabia-portrait-2.html
 
why not just post the link?

This post seems a bit spammy?
 
Right mouse click>Properties>Highlight Picture Url>Press 'CTRL' and 'C'>Type
>Click Submit

Thanks :)
 
It's not spammy at all. Sorry for not placing the link (just in many forums you simply not allowed to put any link). Was too late yesterday and I didn't read up here about this so decided to be careful. That's all.
Anyway, I'm really interested how to do such effect. I have no idea how it is done. I've just come up with such processing first time and it catched my eyes far more than "standard" processing. I thought why not to try but the question is how :)
If anyone has any idea it will be very helpful.
Here is the full link to make it easier (on this site you have, as I remember well, three such images):

http://www.photo-shop.pl/photographers-murgrabia-portrait-3.html

Of course I don't mean the black notes :) but all these whites.
Thanks!
 
Some fantastic stuff there. The shot you linked to seems to have had most of the mid tones removed leaving just the highlights and shadows. How it was actually done I've no idea, but there's probably a gazillian ways of tackling it which is usually the case.

I don't want to dishearten you, but work like this is often a combination of photography and artistic skill, with no magic buttons or processes to help you out. The shot of the woman pouring the liquid over herself is a good example where the liquid has obviously been hand painted into the shot.

For some of those gritty portrait effects, check out the Dragan Effect, you should be able to find loads of tutorials on the web which will give you a start, but there's some impressive skill going on in those shots. ;)
 
Agreed that is some serious graphic art going on there. The one of the woman pouring the liquid looks like a combination of liquid and material, if you look at how it is moving over her legs, that looks more like cloth draped. Also the thing that is supposed to be spewing liquid is not nearly big enough for the volume of liquid supposedly in the shot.

Sometimes things are not what they appear to be and these are very much created in the electronics of a Mac I think.
 
The retoucher for the Jazz Radio ads is Iza Zembrzuska

It looks like a mixture of Post Production techniques made popular by Dave Hill and Amy Dresser (who PP's for Jill Greenberg btw)

Calvin Hollywood also does a similar technique and runs free webinars every so often to share his methods.

The others are not all by the same retoucher.
 
It is possible to have similar effect to Dave Hill (of course only simillar cause he is a master!). You can use, say, Lucis Pro. I hoped that maybe there was kind of function in PS or any program to convert a photo in such (I even don't know how to say) whites (?) - of course plus some retouching in PS later. If this is a "handymade" artistic work it must be huge job (and of course artistic sense - I agree)

Thanks CT for Dragan Effect :)
 
I tried to make white skin in PS. It's not such good but anyway it's hard to compare in detail cause his (Murgrabia's) photos are too small.
 
JustMeNow said:
I tried to make white skin in PS. It's not such good but anyway it's hard to compare in detail cause his (Murgrabia's) photos are too small.
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Did you start with a pale model?

Did you go and look up Amy Dresser?

She uses a 50% grey layer blended to soft light, then painted on with white.

It's not a single layer though, and you can't hit it with the brush at 100% opacity / 100% flow either.

Here's a tiny (5mb) psd file of one of Amy's retouches, released by Amy, so you can see what goes into the image.

http://www.fearofbodd.com/ADresserSample_RET.psd
 
That original linked image could easly be a manipulated mono image with very subtle colour then appled to selective areas - in fact I think it probably is - it would be the easiest way to do it.
 
Thanks JasonRS!
I made my model pale in PS and yes, I've looked up Amy Dresser. I'm going straight to the link you've sent :)
 
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