Dave Hill Effect #2

A fun little game to help us develop our processing skills while we pursue the ever popular and trendy "Dave Hill Look".

To learn more about Dave, you can visit his site at http://www.davehillpho​to.com/.

Some may ask, "What is the Dave Hill Look." Well, it may be best defined as gritty, hyper sharp, little if any bokeh, and very high contrast. Dave Hill's work relies a great deal on his lighting techniques, which may not be duplicated effectively in the target photos that appear in the contests.

So do your best with what you have.

Here are the rules (the bulk of which are borrowed from the before/after threads, with appreciation.)

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture that I choose, Outside of being resized it has to be unedited...meaning no adjustments to any levels, it has to look like it did as it came out of the camera.

The game will last 48hrs and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked and it'll be their turn to post their unedited picture for all of us to take a crack at.

The participants must have their "Image Editing OK" turned on and they must provide at least a simple breakdown of how they edited the image, some entrants are a little vague on this point, please give us all details so we can learn and share tips. For instance if you use the unsharp mask tool or Smart Sharpen, provide us with the adjustments you used so others can try them out.

You can post multiple images, but the first image you post will be the one that is judged - all other images will be considered for knowledge and tip use only.

Also, please keep all comments, be they positive or negative, to yourself until after the game has ended.

If you happen to be the winner of the game please start the next one with the title of the game and the following number. For example…the next game should read "Dave Hill Effect #3".

This is all about having fun so have at it!!! Good Luck!!!

THIS CONTEST WILL END AT 12 PM, SUDAY, AUGUST 24th!!!

(PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO POST YOUR EDIT STEPS THAT YOU TOOK TO ACHIEVE THIS LOOK)

Great Photo! This should yield some good stuff!

I changed the date...thought today was Saturday The end of the contest is SUNDAY Aug 24th

Permagrin wrote in post #6157294
A fun little game to help us develop our processing skills while we pursue the ever popular and trendy "Dave Hill Look".

To learn more about Dave, you can visit his site at http://www.davehillpho​to.com/.

Some may ask, "What is the Dave Hill Look." Well, it may be best defined as gritty, hyper sharp, little if any bokeh, and very high contrast. Dave Hill's work relies a great deal on his lighting techniques, which may not be duplicated effectively in the target photos that appear in the contests.

So do your best with what you have.

Here are the rules (the bulk of which are borrowed from the before/after threads, with appreciation.)

Here's the breakdown of the game. I will post a picture that I choose, Outside of being resized it has to be unedited...meaning no adjustments to any levels, it has to look like it did as it came out of the camera.

The game will last 48hrs and whoever can produce the best edited image (as judged by me) will be picked and it'll be their turn to post their unedited picture for all of us to take a crack at.

The participants must have their "Image Editing OK" turned on and they must provide at least a simple breakdown of how they edited the image, some entrants are a little vague on this point, please give us all details so we can learn and share tips. For instance if you use the unsharp mask tool or Smart Sharpen, provide us with the adjustments you used so others can try them out.

You can post multiple images, but the first image you post will be the one that is judged - all other images will be considered for knowledge and tip use only.

Also, please keep all comments, be they positive or negative, to yourself until after the game has ended.

If you happen to be the winner of the game please start the next one with the title of the game and the following number. For example…the next game should read "Dave Hill Effect #3".

This is all about having fun so have at it!!! Good Luck!!!

THIS CONTEST WILL END AT 12 PM, SUDAY, AUGUST 24th!!!

(PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO POST YOUR EDIT STEPS THAT YOU TOOK TO ACHIEVE THIS LOOK)

I love the look in general. So many people trash it as "over processed" though which doesn't make sense! It's an art form!

Dave Hill doesn't tell a lot about his process, but Joey Lawrence does http://strobist.blogsp​ot.com …th-photographer-joey.html . He is only 18 and a big commercial success! He sells a downloadable 2 hour tutorial for $300 !!

I am clueless about the process. Lighting, sharpening and lots of layers predominate along with D & B plus hours for well done images. Seems I remember Perm posting a tutorial on the Dave Hill effect in Lightroom 1.0 when it first arrived.

Lucis Art http://www.lucisart.co​m/ gets you in the ballpark and a new low cost plug-in called Topaz Adjust http://www.topazlabs.c​om/ holds some promise. I cannot wait to watch this thread! Should be fun! Thanks Permagrin!!

oh dear I forgot about this!

after careful consideration and long evaluation of the entries...elimination of the poor quality submissions, I have decided to choose


(wait for it )


DON'S! nice job Don

Permagrin wrote in post #6170841
oh dear I forgot about this!

after careful consideration and long evaluation of the entries...elimination of the poor quality submissions, I have decided to choose


(wait for it )


DON'S! nice job Don

Right! "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man in King"!

I can't believe that no one had interest. Maybe after the kids get back to school and everyone's vacation is over, you should give it another try.

donlavange wrote in post #6171366
Right! "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man in King"!

I can't believe that no one had interest. Maybe after the kids get back to school and everyone's vacation is over, you should give it another try.

maybe this contest is just taking time for people to get interested. No problems here Just feel free to start up #3

Sorry.... I meant to give it a shot, but was just jammed up this weekend...... Looking for #3!

is anyone going to start round three?

Permagrin wrote in post #6177060
is anyone going to start round three?

Sorry, I will get it in tomorrow the morning, if not later this evening when I get home.