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Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:39 pm
by JohannesL
Hey folks!

A personal project of mine, made to study what makes a photo look like a photo. Found out the biggest problem I have in Octane is to get that nice "micro contrast" that many photos have, Octane renders quite often look a bit bleak (I miss some sliders for contrast etc in camera settings). Solution to this I found was to make a high pass layer with very high value and soft light it. Similar to the clairty-function which I generally hate, but this worked out pretty good.

Also realized that jpeg compression artifacts really makes a nice job to make an image look more real instead of just noise.

I won't change anything now but critics are always welcome. I can start by saying the floor scratches are way too strong :-)

Reference to this project was taken from pinterest.
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Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:06 pm
by Rickky
have you try arion-fx for the final touch ?

Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:59 am
by tonycho
thanks for the tips Johannes :)
great photo bytheway :D

Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:40 pm
by Bendbox
These images look fantastic! Would you mind going into a little more detail about your process for, creating a "high pass layer with very high value and soft light it" ?

Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:03 pm
by lucioing
Great post JohannesL. It could be more useful, if you were post the 'Before' and 'After' images... just to understand a little bit more deeply.
Thank you

L.


PS Arion-fx PS is ONLY for win, NOT for OSX :(

Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:19 pm
by Refracty
Sweet, I like the fur :)

Re: Scandinavian loft corner

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:33 pm
by JohannesL
Sorry for my late reply.

I'll definately sum up my thoughts about the high pass layer and before/after images. I'll be back :)