Questions tagged [reverse-engineering]
Analysis of an image to determine setup and techniques that could be used to achieve certain properties of the image.
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How can these photos by Martin Schoeller have such a high quality?
Today, I ended up in a site showing famous people faces in a very first plane. I just got impressed by the quality those photos had.
What do you think are the factors you have to tweak to reach that ...
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How to achieve this "faded" "magazine-like" effect?
I really like the effect that this photo has but i don't know how to achieve it. Probably done with photoshop? It almost looks like it belongs on an old magazine.
The effect is kind of over exposed ...
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Does anyone have any information on Canon's VL mount regarding pinout and protocol?
I currently have a canon cl 8-120mm f/1.4-2.1 lens which uses the VL mount. Canon's goal appeared to have been to make this a standard system similar to the Micro Four Thirds system. See http://www....
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What’s this post-processing effect?
I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved?
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Methods to reproduce/recreate an IG-filter in Photoshop/Lightroom?
As you can see in the screenshot, I have two images of an almost identical landscape. In the left image (reference photo) a photo filter has been applied from Instagram. In the right image, no filter ...
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What camera was used to create this hyper-saturated look?
I am looking to recreate this type of photography, but I cannot find an answer anywhere on the internet - hoping you'll be able to help.
Here is the reference photo:
I absolutely love the beachy ...
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How do I give my images this vintage travel photo effect?
Pictures like this (and I know this is an already-beautiful rainforest) remind me of how a place looks when you imagine it in your head. They have a kind of magical, dreamy touch while also being ...
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How was this Penelope Cruz photo by Peter Lindbergh lit?
(published in this CNN article).
The catch light seems to show us a big window with people standing in front of it. But wouldn't window light produce a more flat lighting? There is a clearly visible ...
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How did the designer achieve this Blue tint effect?
I am looking through websites for web design inspiration (yes, I know I'm in the photography forum) and I'm trying to figure out how this blue tint was achieved on this photo? I have tried making the ...
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How was this picture of a model on a boat with a sunset in the background created?
It's so bright and the colors and detail stand out so much. I have a NikonD5200 and access to Photoshop.
Source: http://angelicablick.se/blog/2014/06/13/call-magic/ (first image)
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Is there an inverse function which will return an HDR picture to its original?
I want to return my original picture from an HDR-picture which I made with Adobe Photoshop CS6. Does an inverse function exist to do this?
The HDR technique takes two pictures where there is more ...
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How do I create a vignette in Photoshop Elements 11?
I'm new to Photoshop Elements 11. I am trying to create a vignette effect on some pictures.
I'm using the Guided view with "Lomo Camera Effect" (but only the vignette option, not the lomo). I find ...
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How do I get this oversatured-but-not, blown-out-but-not, subtly surreal look?
If you look at the buildings here, they're super-white and blown out-seeming. On the other hand, the black shoes are super-black, as if hand-tinted – same with the green of the leaves. Overall there's ...
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How to take a hard-lit bodyscape with minimal gear?
I'm trying to take a fitness bodyscape of myself like this one:
I've got the backdrop for it and have an Andoer kit for lighting that contains:
2x 30W LED Lamps +
2x 50cm x 70cm Softboxes
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How can I accomplish this aged photo effect in Photoshop? [closed]
I'm trying to accomplish this effect for my website. I need to do this to a couple photo's and they need to look exactly like this (see below).
Here is a link to the image with the effect I'm trying ...
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How do I get this foggy/cold/blueish look in my photos?
I'm new in the photography realm and I want to achieve a foggy/cold/blueish kind of magical look with my pictures. Something like these pics
1st image, click for full size
Please help me! :)
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What type of flash/diffuser was used in this picture?
What type of flash/diffuser was used
in this picture ? I am amazed of the by level of diffused light. I am sure there is a lot of post processing but i believe the lighting is the most important ...
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How do I set up the lighting to take this portrait?
I don't have much experience with photography. I've been watching a bunch of videos on using gels and led lights. I'm just trying to figure out the best/ cheapest way a rookie can go about getting ...
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How to achieve Greg Gorman style in his book Framed?
How to achieve this style? Is it mixture of barn doors, snoots and subtractive light? Please give an example of how to use subtractive light
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Is there way to visualize Photoshop changes by EXIF?
Photoshop saves the changes made on the photo to its EXIF (or XMP). Is there any chance of visualizing this data?
Example photo and its EXIF data can be found on my webpage:
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How can I mimic the color saturation of Nikon's miniature-faking mode?
Nikon's on-camera "miniature faking" tweak appears to increase the saturation, increase the contrast, and perform some selective horizontal/vertical blurring (with a falloff region) for a tilt-shift ...
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Does Anyone know which filter is this? Its used by a illustrator called Ilya Kuvshinov
This filter is used by the illustrator Ilya Kuvshinov, it has a little bit of chromatic aberration which is not too noticeable on the picture.
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Man Ray Techniques
The surrealist photographer(Man Ray) uses techniques I'm unfamiliar with (photogram) And was wondering about the techniques used in this image,
I've been read some good articles including this good ...
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How do you get this gritty, grainy effect?
How do I approach this effect?
It’s sort of gritty, grainy fuzzy, yet still seems to retain a lot of fine detail.
Can it be done in camera or is it a post processing effect?
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What techniques and concepts did Jan Groover use in this photo?
I found this photo today and really liked it, I'm interested in an analysis of this photograph I've chosen by Jan Groover.
Some questions are I have are what techniques are used in the creation and ...
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How was Claire Benoist's flower diptych picture shot?
http://www.popphoto.com/files/imagecache/article_main_photo/_images/201108/1.jpg
Any thoughts on how it was shot?
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How do I get the high contrast sharpness seen in this B&W portrait?
I would like some help on achieving this image on my D7000:
the only lenses I have with me are: 50mm f/1.2, 80-200 AF f/2.8 and the 18-105 kit lens
I tried B&W with the built-in B&W ...
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How can I create this 'medieval look' using an entry-level camera like the Nikon D3300?
How do recreate pictures like the ones below?
They all appear to be lit a certain way. The colors are all very similar, with an overall dark, brooding aspect to them. The backgrounds are heavily ...
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How was this nightclub photo taken/edited?
How was this photo taken in terms of aperture, shutter speed and ISO, and also how was it edited in post. Does anyone have a clue?
I can't see any motion blur in the people dancing behind, nor any ...
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What set up is required to take an image like this bright portrait? [closed]
Please let me know what set up is needed to recreate such a photo? What creates this illusion?
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Is adapting legacy TTL flashes to digital-ready TTL systems technically or just marketing/no-one-bothers-impossible?
The reason given for absolute incompatibility of all legacy TTL flash systems with DSLRs/DSLMs is usually the need to fire a controlled measuring preflash very quickly succeeded by the actual "...
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How to reproduce this shot of a person with reflections in front of them?
Renuka Puri: Portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reflection of crowd in the glass after the parliamentary party meeting
How can I reproduce this shot, especially the reflections in front of ...
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How to mix small and large colored highlights using strobes?
I'm trying to get better with handling multiple strobes and with adding in color effects. The image below was taken with a single strobe held high above the camera and bounced off the ceiling:
This ...
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How to reproduce a photo with silhouette and bokeh?
I recently found a photo with a silhouette and bokeh at DSLR vs Mirrorless: Wedding Photographer's review. The subjects are as dark as the background, there is only a rim light shaping their heads. I ...
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Was the background blur in this image done with a Petzval lens?
I am interested to know how the background blur in this image (also on Flickr) by Lukas Wawrzinek was done. Is it a petzval lens?
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How to create the type of lighting that is used in many of Elena Shumilova's pictures?
Elena Shumilova posts a number of photos online. Many of her images have this sort of signature airy, soft, glowing lighting. This is good example.
How would I go about recreating this type of ...
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How to I get the Instagram "Lux" effect without using Instagram?
I am kind of fascinated with the new Lux effect of Instagram. I want to "get" the same effect myself, during post processing. This is what I was able to get to, after playing with Levels, Contrast, ...
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What visual effect can be seen in the following picture?
I saw this picture on Behance. As an amateur photographer, i just want an analysis of the picture and help in how to recreate it with a different object.
original picture credits - Kremer Johnson
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How do they shoot wide television-show cast photos?
For large ensemble TV show casts, the typical promo photo tend to be a wide shot with everyone standing, with minimal body overlap. It seems like you would need a wide angle to get the whole scene if ...
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Can you create Instagram's “Structure” effect purely in Lightroom?
I am trying to re-create Instagram's structure effect within Lightroom, but I can’t quite figure it out. Clarity, Sharpening, and Dehaze were my best bets but things are still very different.
Is this ...
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What setup/techniques is beaches.com using on their photos?
i am fascinated by the work that the people from Beaches.com do on their photos. They always have a lot of quality pictures of rooms and general indoors, outdoors, with and without people.
I was ...
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How to mimic Olympus' dramatic tone filter?
I just did a few tries with some of Olympus' art filters and liked that "dramatic tone" filter. But even then, the images are far from perfect and I would like to recreate them in my raw converter (I ...
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How can I detect upscaled photos?
I have a collection of JPEG photos, each 500 to 600 pixels on the longest side. How can I detect which ones have been algorithmically enlarged from a substantially smaller photo?
An online ...
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What is the effect where some objects are a single bright color but the rest is black and white?
There is an option to filter only one color (R,G,B,Y) in my camera. What I want to know is can this effect be achieved in photoshop? And what is this called? I tried googling monochrome and came up ...
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How can I take portraits in the style of Charles Hildreth?
I recently discovered the work of portrait photographer Charles Hildreth. His portraits and color grading techniques are, in my opinion, remarkable and I was wondering how he is achieving his ...
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How to match colors between pictures?
For an assignment for a photography course I'm following we have to reproduce an existing photo as faithfully as possible.
The picture I have chosen is below on the left (partially clipped because it ...
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How to find curve that correspond to a given transformation?
I am having a little bit of a mathematical approach here... I suppose that all the transformation we can make to an image which operate on one pixel per time (for example levels, saturation, color ...
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How did Suren Manvelyan create the macro pictures of eyes?
I came across some really cool macro photos of eyes today. How did he manage to get these photos? I couldn't find any EXIF information anywhere, and I don't have enough experience with macro to figure ...
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What kind of camera and developing/printing process may Charles Jones have used?
Charles Jones was a gardener and photographer who lived from 1866-1959. His photographs of garden produce and flowers were found at an auction in 1981 and have since been acclaimed long after his ...
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How to take this group portrait with faces in profile only lit from the side they're facing?
I found this photo on this web site and I would like to try and reproduce it using my family. I have a decent camera EOS 70D but I am unsure of how to go about setting up this shot.
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