my favorite from tonight's shoot

Scott Butner

took pictures at my friend/boss' Halloween party.


D7K_0482-Edit by Scott Butner, on Flickr

fishingcomic

Love it

swizz

Tebowing

Juliet

That's great.

ricinus

It takes a kid to pull it off. Very nice!!

Mike

Juliet

Scott did you use some photoshop on the image? If so what?

Scott Butner

Greenman -- here's what I do:
Before/after:

D7K_0482 by Scott Butner, on Flickr

D7K_0482-Edit by Scott Butner, on Flickr

post processing involves reducing contrast and color saturation on the original (yes, REDUCING); making a duplicate of the desaturated image, and using the "Overlay" blend mode -- this will get you about 80% of the effect alone by amping up the colors. In this case, I took another clone of one of the layers, applied a high-pass filter, converted that layer to black and white, and increased the contrast -- this gets you some of the edginess of the shot. I then go back to lightroom from PS Elements, and apply the noise reduction slider and push it quite high -- this smoothes over the textures, giving the waxy look.

There's a fair amount of trial and error involved at first, but I've gotten it down to about 5 minutes per photo.

here's one of my boss and his wife and son, with just contrast, color saturation and brightness adjustments from the original.


D7K_0412-Edit by Scott Butner, on Flickr

Bak4Mor

your photos seem to capture personality. this one is top shelf.

there has to be some kind of conjecture of how long Hextall would last against Captain America.

Juliet

Scott it comes close to having that look that the movie 300 had or even the **** Tracy movie from the 80s. Real interesting.

Scott Butner

thanks, I've been trying for a comic-book look -- reasonably happy with the approach but now kind of ready to move on to something more hyper-real, like I've seen in a few other photographer's work. Need to improve my post-processing skills, I am still a complete noob when it comes to processing. My 24 year old friend/mentor kicks my **** on postprocessing technique every time!