Street Acrobats in Barcelona

[Zayets]

I shot these photos while I was in Spain last summer. I was playing with them in photoshop and applied a few filters to them. I like how they all came out.

Your C&C would be greatly appreciated.

http://zed.ls2.com/hdr/IMG_0636_lucis_s.jpg

http://zed.ls2.com/hdr/IMG_0639_lucis2_s.jpg

http://zed.ls2.com/hdr/IMG_0641_lucis_s.jpg

[Gnhntn]

I like them, they came out great.

[JuiceBox]

They look like cartoons.

[Igoryek69]

what filters did you use for processing?

[Gab1707]

That is kinda cool!

[CameraBuff]

Awesome - Yes indeed; please give us the pp steps so we can give it a go on some of our shots.

[DRBair]

very well done, great colors and detail. I am also curious in how you achieved this look. It would be interesting to see the original photos as well.

[Avi]

love the last image...nice PP..

thanks for sharing

Avi

[skygod44]

Excellent work.

Really like the effect. Which filters did you use?

[Zayets]

Thank you everyone for your kind words.

I made all the pictures from single jpg files. First I applied Lucisart filter to the images. I tweaked the settings until I was happy with the outcome. Then I bosted the color saturations in Topaz. Lastly I applied noise ninja and USM.

The Lucisart portion was the most challenging part. The rest were just icing on the cake. :)

[skygod44]

Thank you everyone for your kind words.

I made all the pictures from single jpg files. First I applied Lucisart filter to the images. I tweaked the settings until I was happy with the outcome. Then I bosted the color saturations in Topaz. Lastly I applied noise ninja and USM.

The Lucisart portion was the most challenging part. The rest were just icing on the cake. :)

Thanks for the update. I've been too busy recently, but as soon as time allows, I want to "play" with PP some more.

Thanks again for posting such interesting, original images!

[joe l.]

I think the "cartoonish" feel of them fits perfectly with the subject matter of the photos. Great job!

[Zayets]

Thanks for the update. I've been too busy recently, but as soon as time allows, I want to "play" with PP some more.

Thanks again for posting such interesting, original images!
You're very welcome. And thank you for your kind wrds.

I think the "cartoonish" feel of them fits perfectly with the subject matter of the photos. Great job!
Thank you very much.

[400dabuser]

They look like cartoons.


I was thinking that myself, perhaps the author ramped up something really high

[shaolinmonk]

wow... this is cool.. how'd you do it? (nevermind missed the post were you actually told everyone)

[Zayets]

Thank you very much.

[shaolinmonk]

i've got a dodgeball team.. we took players cards.. going try to apply this effect and see what it's like...

[Zayets]

i've got a dodgeball team.. we took players cards.. going try to apply this effect and see what it's like...
Please do share. :)

[Lizard Frenzy]

A bit irrelevant, but those bicycle handles in the second one sort of remind me of a bull's horns. And looking at that picture reminds me of the opening credit sequences from the Naked Gun movies. So I keep getting the mental image that some guy is riding a bull, and we're seeing a first-person shot from his point of view just before he makes his bull gore that one kid right in the butt.

Anyway, yeah these are cool pictures. Normally I don't like the "cartoony" style of HDR imaging all that much. But as you said, it really fits the subject matter here. My problem with cartoony HDR isn't so much that it's the "wrong" way to do HDR, I think that it's just often sort of overdone and doesn't really fit. But here it works really well, I think.

[Zayets]

Thank you Lizard Frenzy.

I completely agree that not every picture is a good candidate for the cartoonish look. I am glad to know you liked these. :)

[joooowan]

they look like childrens book illustrations

[rsieminski]

They look like Topaz Adjust images.

[deletedpenguin]

Wow, I really like this post processing job. At first, I thought just another bad HDR image, but after looking at it for a second, the cartoony feel is great!

Well done!

[poppie guy]

I think they all look great!

[Zayets]

Thank you very much everyone.