Amazing family photos

[Paul]

This lady sure can take a photo.

http://themetapicture.com/these-pictures-are-what-dreams-are-made-of/

 

[chrisdesign]

Absolutely gorgeous pictures!

 

[Paul]

How would this be achieved

 

[chrisdesign]

I guess it is a composite of 2 fotos.
I just tried to achieve a similar result with one of my "normal" images.


Original

multiplied the color of the sky on a layer.

desaturated the corlors

Put the BG on a layer and applied Gaussian blur

added a vignette layer (multiply)
added a layer to lighten the GB

 

[chrisdesign]

This is what it looks like.

 

[Paul]

Thanks Chris really nice, off to try something now.

 

[Tom Mann]

FWIW, there was a discussion of her photos over on photo.net a month or so ago. The consensus was that key to her "look" was her use of a wide aperture lens (certainly faster than f/2.8) with good soft bokeh (so probably an older design) plus a good working knowledge of lighting, but only moderate post processing of the resulting images.

I'll try to find and post a link to their very interesting discussion of her technique.

Tom

PS - Chris, very nice job!

 

[Tom Mann]

Arghhh! I couldn't find the old photo.net discussion, but I did see a comment that one of her favorite lenses is a 135/2.0 L. From that and her photo, she's obviously not exactly a peasant farmer, LOL.

 

[Tom Mann]

To add to Chris' excellent comments, here's one of my old posts on an easy way to add the sunburst / lens flare effect (scroll down to my post dated June 15th, 2011 at 1:58 PM).

T

 

[IamSam]

I really like the faded yellow look. I'm trying to work more on photo enhancements........I tried this.........

I don't know if it's working or not! What do you guys think?