More “Dave Hill” Look

Since learning how to re-create the “Dave Hill” look, I have done a little experimenting and here are the results.

This photo is the original with no alterations at all.

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And this is the “dave Hill” treated photo.

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I think I have to admit, from a purely artistic view the “Dave Hill” treated photo looks much more stunning.

Your views on this would be great though :-)

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2 Responses to “More “Dave Hill” Look”

  1. Joseph Tobing Says:
    May 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Like the result.. how do you achieve this? it seems to me that there were no halos in this one as other techniques that I tried have been giving me halos…
    Any pointers would be greatly appreciated
    Joseph

  2. Carl Says:
    May 22, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Hi Joseph,

    Firstly, you will need to make sure that you take the picture in Camera Raw format. - I have tried doing this method with JPEG formats and I find that I get halos too. So to get the best results you will need to make sure that you take the picture using RAW.

    Then I process it through camera Raw with the following settings :

    Exposure: +1.75
    Recovery: +100
    Fill Light: +100
    Blacks: 34
    Brightness: +55
    Contrast: +100
    Clarity: 100
    Vibrance: +100
    Saturation -73

    After I have these settings I usually have to make some alterations - kind of some fine tuning using the exposure, blacks and brightness. Sometimes you may find that reducing the saturation a little works too.

    You can get a really good tutorial by going to Scott Kelby’s blog - Here’s the link…

    http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1094

    I hope this helps you.

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