How do they create this effect?

tim swaback, Oct 21, 2005; 09:55 p.m.

is it in the processing, or a certain way of actually taking the pictures? All the lines and everthing just "pops." How?

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3816444 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3813183 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2336985 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2692220 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2358123 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2431023

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Zenit Zepplin , Oct 21, 2005; 10:23 p.m.

look around the guy's ear in the 1st one, it's some kind of post-processing PS blur, with the background desaturated to boot, there's probably another layer for all that dodging/burning as well.

Mike Dixon , Oct 21, 2005; 10:25 p.m.

Looks like relatively low-contrast lighting combined with high-contrast processing/post-processing/printing.

Zenit Zepplin , Oct 21, 2005; 10:27 p.m.

i meant the 2nd one, sorry, but the first one with the old fellow's got it too, look on the left. The wrinkles and all are pumped up by local contrast, though could have also been colour adjustment for complementaries

Emre Safak , Oct 21, 2005; 11:54 p.m.

http://innographx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26233

Vesa Metsätähti , Oct 22, 2005; 04:12 a.m.

This reminds me of so called "Lazlo effect", that, in my understanding, bears name of the photographer who presented results the effect quite skillfully in fred miranda forums (galleries: http://www.pictures-by-lazlo.com/ ). I could not find the original posts describing the method but quick googling yielded this:

http://www.dl-c.com/discus/messages/36/3776.html?1101868616

Tim Holte , Oct 22, 2005; 07:08 a.m.

Email him and ask him!

Rich 815 , Oct 22, 2005; 09:17 a.m.

It's been the latest "kitsch" for a couple of months now. Came along just after "light painting". Do you think Epson will develop a method for printing on black velvet for these images?

Edward Horn , Oct 22, 2005; 10:28 p.m.

I think the fourth one is done with plain old lighting and contrast. The rest are plain ugly, but the Ochoa one is actually nice.

Kim Long , Oct 23, 2005; 01:14 p.m.

Looks like high pass, faded...

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