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It does appear that some selective color might have been used in processing, along with the contrast boost that others have mentioned. But the source of the aqua that dominates the image appears to have been present in the original scene. It is the color of the glass in the rounder building that was behind the camera that is reflected in many of the ...
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Others have addressed the feel / colors (boost contrast, filters, etc) but I wanted to point out that first photo was also shot with a much wider lens. This affects how "striking" the lines are -- there's much more perspective (things far away look really far away) and the shot feels more dynamic than the one that you posted.
More about wide angle ...
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There is one fundamental difference between your shot an the sample shot you linked that no one seems to be addressing: The sample has highly reflective windows on all the buildings, each of which are reflecting each other. There are reflections.
Your photo is of an isolated building that either does not appear to have very reflective windows, or is simply ...
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It is possible that a polarizing filter of some type may have been used to limit which reflections were being seen. The lighting conditions probably also happened to be just right and the building itself probably had highly reflective windows.
As for the "pop", it's a very high contrast image that looks like the contrast was expanded. Basically the ...
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In Lightroom I increased exposure, contrast, hightlights, whites, clarity, and decreased shadows, and blacks. The biggest impact comes from contrast boost and black decrease.
Before/After:
Lightroom:
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There are several problems with some of the answers you have already received. First, little of this effect is due to polarized reflections from the car itself. The reflection needs to be at a more glancing angle to get significant polarizing selection. Most of the reflections in this image are steep enough to not make much difference to the polarization ...
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A polarising filter (ideally) lets through 100% of the polarised light of a certain angle, and 0% of the polarised light rotated 90 degrees from that angle.
Light that is not polarised is a mix of all angles, so the filter lets through 50% of that light.
Thus, it will let through twice as much of the polarised light at a certain angle compared to the ...
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Your own eyes saw the car without polariser, unless you wore pol sunglasses, ie. the specular and diffuse part as well as the mirror image of the bright surroundings with some shiny highlights to grab attention and overload the dynamic range.
Then you took a shot with polariser, that theoretically removes reflections and specular highlights. Note that the ...
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When light bounces off a relatively nonconductive surface it becomes partially plane polarized, meaning the light tends to have the same polarization direction.
Polarizing filters can be used to counteract glare/reflections, by orienting the filter at 90 degrees to the polarized reflection so that it get filtered out.
If you orient the filter so that it is ...
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To give you a summary of this link, you'll be needing the following:
Curves Image Adjustment - the curves tool can take input tones and selectively stretch or compress them. Using this tool can add emphasis to shadows and high lights. Take note that old Pictures are not vivid, so use this tool to adjust it.
Add a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer - we use ...
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You will need to introduce noise, selectively desaturate come colors, decrease contrast, lighten the black point and possibly selectively shift hues on some colors. Reducing the color depth may also help achieve a vintage look.
In general, the "vintage" look comes from the fact that older films lacked the sensitivity and color accuracy of more modern films ...
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I see significantly dropped contrast, boosted brightness, slight desaturation (perhaps some light selective desaturation as well) with a very narrow depth of field. I think the yellow cast may come from the desaturation and brightness boost from what may have been a brownish yellow ground cover. (It could also be yellow cast grass, but the flowers ...
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There are a number of factors here, two of which you've identified:
a yellow color cast
shallow depth of field, possibly with additional post-processing blur
These are important, but part of the dream-like appearance comes from the high key. Here's the histogram for the image:
which shows that all of the tones in this image are brighter than the 50% ...
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There is something called a "soft focus lens".
In terms of getting a dreamy defocussed look, I would say reducing "clarity" in post processing woudl achieve it- or some mild blue applied to the image.
However in this case, I just think it is a longish wide aperture lens which blurs the foreground and background while having a strip (the flowers) in focus.
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