Question on this guys photoshoping skills

Could someone some explain how the hell he gets all of the detail out of the sky and.. u know what, how does he do everything in the before and after?!

-i tried msging him but no answer

Photos by GREATONE! from Flickr.com

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He is probably shooting bracketed exposures so that blending in an "under exposed" sky is easier in post. Some shots look like her has a graduated density filter. A polarizer will make the sky pop more too...

yeah but it would def show in the before pic. i feel like everything in the after photo was done in photoshop

First, those aren't your images so IMAGE POSTING RULES only allow you to post links to them.

2nd, that sky isn't extreme & you could get that effect with one RAW shot & blending two conversions together.

3rd, since you aren't sharing your own images, I have to move this thread to talk.

in one of his posts on the final image, he says it was one shot, not bracketed, the sky isn't blown out horribly and like photos guy said, the sky isn't to extreme looking so its definately possible without multiple exposures.

It looks like a layer with the everything but the sky masked off, change the blending mode to either multiply, overlay, or linear burn which boost some contrast and darkens. Maybe darken the sky further from there depending on how it comes out. and again like photos guy said, you need to be shooting RAW to do that kind of thing with one file.

I did something similar, not quite the same but close.

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sorry.. im retarded.

i looked up an easy tutorial on using the gradient tool, overay, layer mask and whatnot but how about the other things. in some of his other photos, the car was in complete darkness and he made it look amazing. i guess thats just photoshop experience.. im relatively new to it

OwensSi wrote in post #11867493
sorry.. im retarded.

i looked up an easy tutorial on using the gradient tool, overay, layer mask and whatnot but how about the other things. in some of his other photos, the car was in complete darkness and he made it look amazing. i guess thats just photoshop experience.. im relatively new to it

I saw in one shot he said he had 3 Alienbees lights, so in the darkness part, that's probably what he did.

EDIT: Maybe adjustment brushes?
http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=nZ5Mg1DoZVU

Likely shot in RAW; Adobe Camera Raw is pretty powerful for making adjustments. You can better the exposure of the sky by lowering the blue channel luminosity, even change the hue/color of certain colors (eg, green leaves to orange). There are plug-ins that can accomplish this as well.

He spent a lot of time selectively replacing colors.

S.Horton wrote in post #11881543
He spent a lot of time selectively replacing colors.

Doubtful. I'd bet money that he spent all of 5 minutes using plug-ins from Nik Software to edit the entire thing.

GVal wrote in post #11881763
Doubtful. I'd bet money that he spent all of 5 minutes using plug-ins from Nik Software to edit the entire thing.

I own that. You might be right. Does not explain the trees well, though, nor the shift in the shadow of the car. Interesting idea at it could be one click. I wish I could finned that click.

S.Horton wrote in post #11881791


I own that. You might be right. Does not explain the trees well, though, nor the shift in the shadow of the car. Interesting idea at it could be one click. I wish I could finned that click.

The "Indian Summer" effect of Color Effects Pro 3 will change greens to red or orange

The shadow is a result of the contrast change in the blues

I got almost same shot by getting the orignal, quick mask the sky, have it selected and went to curves and played with the RGB curve and lowered it. Had a very similar effect. Did the same thing a little bit on the bottom half and had similar effect.

This is off subject, but Owensi, You have a different set for every date on your flickr, with like one picture in them. You know, it archives them for you right?

GVal wrote in post #11881832
The "Indian Summer" effect of Color Effects Pro 3 will change greens to red or orange

The shadow is a result of the contrast change in the blues

Kewl. Learned something there. Thx!