I like the look of these photos from the BBC and was wondering how they achieve the colours? I am assuming it isn't straight from camera and has had some kind of editing.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10780480 ]linky to BBC.[/url]
If you can direct me to a tutorial or suggest a book, that would be cool.
I'm not totally convinced anything much has been done to them.. may be a very gentle bit of contast manipulation. I suspect they have been shot with a filter on the camera, possibly a poleriser (best filter in the world..!)
I'm sure someone will be along to prove me wrong though!
It's just properly exposed images in flattish light I think, using a nice wide lens.
Maybe upped the mid-tone contrast slightly?
fair bit of contrast, one of them has the corners darkened in (fake vignetting), they *might* have played with the white temperature a bit - or set it correctly
Some films do it - a lot of landscape photographers have massive stashes of Fuji Velvia, which really overdoes or brings out the colours, depending on your point of view.
5lab - do you think it's fake vignetting? seems to have been a v.wide angle lens - may have had a screw on filter on (UV/polariser/whatever) which vignetted when at the shortest focal length?
Possibly application of a "HDR" plugin in post
A quick, rough n ready way on PS: make a B/W adjustment layer and push the dark tones with sliders or use 'black' setting. Then adjust opacity on B/W layer right down <20%. This alows you to decrease colour saturation but maintain contrast.
You can also download custom curve settings that emulate the old film types.
Thanks MrFart, I'll have a go.
I don't think it's a polariser, but possibly another filter. I'll try my polarising filter as see what happens.
Thanks all.
It's possibly my eyesight being a bit loopy through the effects of codeine phosphate, but that looks similar to the "Leica" effect.
Go to the "unsharp mask" filter, and set at 15% amount, 60 pixel radius, threshold at 0 or 1. Play about with the levels until it looks just right.
Or maybe the [url= http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography ]Lomo effect[/url] is closer.