The Dave Hill look by Scott Kelby.

This is one very cool technique: http://www.scottkelby.​com …08/archives/109​4#comments

I did this with it:

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Woah! Thats a great picture/effect!

The light is too soft for the effect to work. This looks nothing like the Dave Hill look.

You need hard light

Gotta give it to Dave Hill, he has set a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow where everyone is trying to get.

As cosworth pointed out, lighting is too soft.

cosworth wrote in post #5071654
The light is too soft for the effect to work. This looks nothing like the Dave Hill look.

You need hard light

No offense, but I'll agree with Jason. The sample looks nothing like the Dave Hill effect. To elaborate a little on what Jason and elysium said about hard light, I have read that one of the keys to achieving the effect is to create that hard light by angling your light source in such a way that wrinkles on the face, clothing, etc. create large shadows. In other words, flash from the side. Also, I would think no umbrellas or softboxes, or stoffen's - just raw, hard flash. I don't see any shadows on the cat like that. Perhaps that's why the effect did not work.

/Dan

Awesome Tom, i seen you post that in Flickr....

Ill have to give it a try once i get home (at work right now)

I am in agreement that the image I posted does not replicate the Dave Hill "look". However, the technique Scott Kelby laid out is what I used on that image so if you have any properly lit photos......give the method a try and see how it looks.

May I humbly suggest that your cat pic looks a helluva lot better than a "Dave Hill look".

To me his subjects look like they need a good shower and a shave.

What do you think of this?

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Sgt. wrote in post #5089297
What do you think of this?

Think it does not look like the dave hill style.
Cute girl tho.

Sgt. wrote in post #5089297
What do you think of this?

Headed in the general direction, but missing the lines, shadows and textures. /Dan

Sgt. wrote in post #5089297
What do you think of this?

Still to soft for a Dave Hill look.

The key to that look is the lightning and the depth of field. His images are almost always very sharp across the whole image like cosworth example post here. The lightning need to be rather hard with plenty of contrast.

It's almost impossible to get that look if you don't have the right image to start with.

Sgt. wrote in post #5089297
What do you think of this?

The girl doesn't seem to be looking at the camera, it's centrally composed, the image is soft, lacks dynamic range and contrast, and there's a chair growing out of her head...

tim wrote in post #5095228
The girl doesn't seem to be looking at the camera, it's centrally composed, the image is soft, lacks dynamic range and contrast, and there's a chair growing out of her head...

Thanks but I was merely interested in the "dave Hill" technique.

Sgt. wrote in post #5095421
Thanks but I was merely interested in the "dave Hill" technique.

The processing has taken all the life out of the photo.