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Hey Guys,

there is an photographer, Rick Day, his style is unique. I love his post production.

(Google him, I can't post links...)

What do you think how he retouch his photos? This colours, the natural contrasts, the noise of the skin... Maybe someone can help me. I tried it so many times, but I never got satisfactory results.
 
I guess if I liked looking at naked guys, that Rick Day google would have been interesting lol some of girls may care to comment though lol
 
Hehe yeah it's pretty weird when you google him. He also shoot girls, look at his homepage:D Don't know why there are only guys as results.
 
I'll pass fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me:mrgreen: like I said the girls maybe interested.
 
IMHO, his PP style seem uniformly brown tinted, to the point of being monotonous ... at least from a quick scan of the 1st page of results on Google Images.

If you want to emulate that style, start with a normally exposed (...hum... perhaps poor choice of words ...) image with a bit lower than average contrast and saturation. In Photoshop, put a medium brown layer on top of the base image, change the blending mode of the brown layer to "color", and adjust the opacity and blendIF sliders to taste. You should be able to come fairly close to the color aspects of his images.

However, be aware that it takes much, much more than color to make a style -- lighting, model, props, contrast, and many other factors play a large part. If any one of these is off, it will look like a different "style". To be honest, my one tip is about as far as I want to go with that guy's photography.

Tom M
 
On his site, I found most of his photo's were exceptional until you get to the men and they are all "stone washed" and bland. I agree with Tom, a style is way more than post processing!
 
Thank you guys.

I like this "stone washed "bland"" style and I know that it's not just about retouching. But it would be nice to know, what he does in his post production. I really love the editing of the album Players.
 
I'll just add a couple comments. Looked at his women and beauty. He may use warming filters and mask out the bright colors, such as blue dress, that he wants to keep same temperature and color. When he has high contrast images, he either keeps the contrast or increases it, but still heavily desaturates the images and possibly lowers the contrast on the skin. In some of his images, particularly the ones in beauty, he definitely adds noise, which you can do use filters>noise. In some, I think he uses the natural grain and imperfection of the skin and enhances it. I don't know this method. If I were to try to emulate it, the first thing I would try is to desaturate a layer and make two copies. For the second layer I would add a guassian or surface blur and set it to soft light, overlay or screen. For the third layer I would leave it as is and set it to multiply to bring out the imperfections. I would play with opacities till I found a result I liked. Now I have no idea if this would work really. I'm away from Photoshop or I might try it. To do this kind of thing though, you would have to start with a model who had rough skin to begin with or add a custom texture. On others, it is apparent that he added noise.

I agree with Tom however that these techniques are rote, formulaic, and kind of boring, but for his commercial purposes, I suppose they get the job done.
 
I looked at some of the players. Kind of an "ugh" for me as I am not a gay man and if you ask me, they don't appeal to a woman, but I could be wrong . . .

Anyway, desaturation of the model is key, and like Tom Mann said, a brown color layer, masking selective colors which have saturation increased. He may also use blurring and sharpening, using the filter masks to diminish the effects selectively. That's what it looks like to me.
 
Thanks dude for your help.
And yes, some of these pictures are really a bit queer. Would be really interesting to see if it would fit with womens. I think so. I hope so hehe
 
Haha oh my gosh I'm so sorry!!!:D It's this guy-queer-thing, guys here, guys there, guys everywhere. I should better go sleep haha
 
Guys everywhere! don't I know it; the libidos kill me, LMAO! Yeah, call me Aunty Clare. Despite the fact that I don't care for a LOT of the guy's images, it might be fun to try to duplicate the technique. When I get back to my PS, I 'might' do that. Post some images if you try it and like your results, OK?
 
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