This is done via harsh lighting and a little bit of tweaking in post processing, I think I finally have it down.

original:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2639907619_bd644db38c.jpg

Dave Hillified:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2785729532_442c9f83fb.jpg

dave hill effect is totally played out already and lame as hell

Hahaha, it makes it so unreal. And I'm not sure it's in a good way. I do like the way the sky turned into a purpley-blue color. I have seen some dave hill shots I like though.

Like the attached image. I <3 light blue, and it had mad light blue.

^ok that looks pretty overdone,

I never knew what this was called and I don't care if it's played out too much :P still fun to mess around with

I tried doing it on some old pictures I'll post them once Im done with the 2nd
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LOL ok, mine came out pretty dull but that's probably because none had a flash or a lot of shiny stuff in them. and they were slightly underexposed.. anyway found this old picture and this one came out the best, the next one the eyes just looked to sharp to be real

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2788145399_c0cbacd6ae.jpg?v=0

Excuse me for being photo-tarded, but what's a Dave Hill effect?

I googled it too and found this

http://www.diyphotography.net/creating-that-dave-hill-look

but heres dave hills website

www.davehillphoto.com just go through his portfolio and you'll see why

The high pass filters are way stupid and create too much halo-ing compared to the method I use.
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dave hill effect is totally played out already and lame as hell

Cool, I think it's really creative and wanted to test a method out and see what I could come up with. Pull the stick out of your ass. Thanks.

if it matters for anything I think it could do without the vig.

Haha I know, and I usually hate fake vig, I don't even know why I threw it in there. Whatever, this photo was shot over a month ago and I just wanted to try the Dave Hill technique on it. meh!!!

The high pass filters are way stupid and create too much halo-ing compared to the method I use.
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Cool, I think it's really creative and wanted to test a method out and see what I could come up with. Pull the stick out of your ass. Thanks.

Damn, it's like people can't have opinions anymore...

how bout posting a tutorial!
i like the effect and well, wanna learn how to do it

just google it, I posted one already theres a lot of different ways of doing it

^ was planning to do that anyways, i just really like what he has done.

some of those look cool to me, but you gotta know when to use the effect. nice though i wana learn how to that

The ones that use the high pass filters don't come out well. What you need to do is get the gritty look through actual coloring and contrast adjustments, and then go back and do skin smoothing, a lot like this tutorial:

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1094

Thanks shred!
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shred i think thats for photoshop cs3... any tips on CS2?

Thanks shred!
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shred i think thats for photoshop cs3... any tips on CS2?

it works on CS2, you need a RAW camera file (.NEF for Nikon, .CR2 for Canon) and the Adobe Camera Raw plugin.

it works on CS2, you need a RAW camera file (.NEF for Nikon, .CR2 for Canon) and the Adobe Camera Raw plugin.

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well.... im screwed on that one

i think that actually looks pretty sweeeet