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That Coveted Gritty Look

 

There has been a surge of people trying to get that really gritty look that has been made famous by photographers like Dave Hill. Most want to be able to get the effect entirely in Photoshop. Here’s is the bottom line. You have shoot for this technique. Meaning the success of the the effect depends on how you set up your lights. Then you can use software like Lucis Art.  Interestingly I was assisting on a shoot with Scott Kelby and he processed the images entirely using Lightroom and Photoshop and actually achieved a really good result. Now you can also use Camera Raw if you don’t have Lightroom. Scott breaks it all down on his blog here. (There is a cool photo of me with my mini.) 

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When I’m done working with an image, I like to sit and admire it (hey, I spent six hours working on it, I should). To do that, I hit the Tab key, then hit the F key three times. This hides all of the panels and toolbars and lets you see the image by itself surrounded by black. To get back to regular mode, press the F key and the Tab key one more time.

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