Here are some of my favorite looking images - from films - that I'm hoping some of you more "in the know" could answer how they were achieved. I would love to translate these "looks" to my photographs.
So let's begin.
Here is a Russian film from 2003 that won an award at the Venice Film Festival
"The Return"
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6474/38384143ru0.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7781/43414716xv2.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us …/3931/e4c61c8d09ceru2.jpg
mostly a blue tint, but there's something else that I can't put a finger on - desaturation first? and then the blue tints?
Now on to "30 Days Of Night"
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/5424/304cy7.png
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1057/301dy8.png
http://i010.radikal.ru/0907/68/41aa8781200f.png
If I'm guessing correctly, this had to have been desaturated a bit and added a lot of contrast. Plus it seems that the lighting really adds to the effect.
The same DP behind 30 Days... was also the DP behind "Hard Candy" he uses the same processing here as well.
Take a look
http://www.10pix.ru/img1/2609/514070.png
http://www.10pix.ru/img1/3698/514073.png
http://s3.sendpic.ru/i/1018/i/tNp.png - especially here, this is the best example. It seems like it's just blue lighting of some kind in general?
Here's also a video that I'd like to know the basic techniques behind the visual result. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8XJqOpt8kg
If anybody could answer at least a bit with the knowledge they possess I would greatly appreciate it.
