If you post an example of what you’re after and tell us the link, you will probably get better help.
Maybe either a carefully constructed tritone or grandient mask would give you a bit of shine in the dark areas.
Both are heading in the right direction: the silvery of the goose in front should be applied to the geese in the background. And that sidewalk does have a little bit of silver in it( but perhaps this is due to the material of the sidewalk?).
I first saw this in pictures of Olivier Meriel, a french photographer. Just do a google search on "Olivier Meriel". His pictures are awesome, but what you don’t see that good in the pictures on his website, is that the dark areas of his pictures have a silvery shine. I know he uses a dark room technique to achieve this and so I was wondering if it was possible to do it with Photoshop too.
AFAICS, Olivier Mériel works a lot with dodging and burning, ‘painting in’ the light in his photos. You can do this in Photoshop by adding a top layer, fill it with 50% gray, and change the blend mode to Overlay, now paint with black and white with the paintbrush at low opacities on this layer to adjust the lightfall.
Mathias
And any idea on how I can get a "silver shine"-effect in the darker areas?
Thanks!
I would agree with Mathias. Olivier Meriel obviously used a lot of dodging and burning. In addition, the channels are heavily manipulated to give an almost infrared look. The tone curves look like a duotone. I don’t see the silver shine you are talking about in his photos.
Yeah,
I know, I said that it isn’t that visible, in fact, it isn’t visible in the pictures on his website, but in reality the darker areas of his pictures have a silvery shine, but if you read the introductory text on his website (and if you understand a bit french) it says that he develops his pictures on paper "rich in silver". So he doesn’t do anything digital, but only the old school way->dark room .
That’s probably also why scans of his pics on his website do not show this silver, neither do the reproductions of his pics, only the originals show this richness in silver. So it’s down to material.
But I found it interesting to ask the question if it is possible to simulate this property of the material in a software like Photoshop, so as to turn the material property/effect into a digital effect. It is stunning to see this, but as it can’t be reproduced I understand it’s a bit hard to explain what the effect should be. All I can say is that the dark areas have a silver shine to it.
Thanks anyway for the help.
Cheers
