In addition to the comments about cross-processing, there is another aspect of these shots as well that as a relative newbie, you may not know about...the rather limited DOF in most of them and the way the shots were composed. I'm not trying to insult your intelligence here so if you already know about these things, please disregard the comments...if not, please read on.
No offense to my esteemed colleagues here but the cross-processing is only part of what makes the look of these images. Looking at the shot of the VW there for example (which I really love), first you have a very limited DOF (that's Depth Of Field in case you didn't know) and very good use of the rule of thirds. Without those two things, the cross-processing alone would not really have been enough to carry the image (IMHO). Here the processing is really just the icing on the cake. Also, the angle these images were taking at is a huge consideration...in the third shot, while theres a fairly deep DOF, the rather dramatic angle really makes this shot and again the processing just puts it over the top.
Now typically these things are usually done on the camera...you -can- do them in Photoshop afterward but it's MUCH easier to get it at the camera in the first place. You get a limited DOF for example by using a really wide aperture on the lens (like f/2.8 as apposed to f/16 or f/22 which will give you A LOT of DOF). You can do this in PS too by using layers...seperate the foreground in to it's own layer then blur the back ground, but this is obviously a lot more work than just shooting it that way in the first place.
I wanted to address this because a lot of people seem to think that one element of an image or another is what makes the whole image. For example, some folks seem to think that a "sharp image" is automatically a "good image"...which is seldom the case. Sharpness, exposure or post processing is seldom enough to carry the image if the composition isn't interesting to begin with. In other words, the processing in these images is only -part- of what make the images work as a whole.
Again if you already got that, I wasn't trying to be insulting or anything...just wanted to clarify things a bit for you.
Just my $.02 worth,
Jim
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