Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > Another "How to achieve these tones"

Jun 10 16 05:23 am Link

Photographer

Thomas Andreas

Posts: 550

Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine

Dess Maximova wrote:
I love these images and for some reason I can never achieve the same results..

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGMi5dXInS0 … y=debiflue

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF6et5KInWQ … y=debiflue

https://www.instagram.com/p/BF34BIUonW2 … y=debiflue

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFyvuO2onTO … y=debiflue

Help anybody?

high contrast / with a slight offset to the blacks. Pretty easy to achieve in post, but what you are after may be the whole sunset mood/setup in the pics?

Jun 10 16 06:03 am Link

Retoucher

3869283

Posts: 1464

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

Try this on a LUT layer:

https://goo.gl/iBorPn

degrade.3dl will take the original image and attempt to restore the original colors
look.3dl applies the look to a non-graded image.

I have used the 4th link you shared as reference. There wasn't much time to play with this so it may not be identical but you can still use it as a starting point and fine tune it further.

NOTE: This LUT is usable in sRGB only because the input images are sRGB

Jun 10 16 10:10 am Link

Photographer

Form and Pressure

Posts: 755

Auburn, Maine, US

Regardless of the post production, those photos look like they all started with a polarizer. A definite head start in achieving that look.

Jun 10 16 02:58 pm Link

Retoucher

Dess Maximova

Posts: 66

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

@Form and Pressure- totally agree

Jun 10 16 10:57 pm Link

Retoucher

Dess Maximova

Posts: 66

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

@ Anchev, this works pretty well, you rock!
Thank you so much!

Jun 10 16 10:57 pm Link

Retoucher

3869283

Posts: 1464

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

Dess Maximova wrote:
@ Anchev, this works pretty well, you rock!
Thank you so much!

You are welcome.
With a better source material it could have been better.

Jun 10 16 11:43 pm Link