TomDart opened this issue on Feb 09, 2009 · 14 posts
Lucie posted Mon, 09 February 2009 at 9:16 AM
I don't think it's all postwork, in some cases maybe, but maybe it's also just good light and good reading. I know sometimes I've taken photos where the colors were blah and I had to do some postwork to make them look better, but I've also taken some where the colors were just perfect and I didn't have to do any.
One thing I do sometimes is just boost the saturation a bit to make the colors stand out a bit more.
HDRI seems really neat too to get great colors, here's a gallery with some awesome examples: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/ I don't know how to make those, but here's a link to a bunch of tutorials on the topic: http://tutorialblog.org/hdr-tutorials-roundup/ one of these days I'm going to have to sit down and look at this more closely... :)