Comments on: Recreating Dave Hill Styled Photography

By: ProPSWizard

ProPSWizard — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:59:14 +0000

Yikes! Waay too much HDR. Dave Hill uses controlled lighting and a really sharp lens. He also uses the Lucis plug-in (originally made for forensic imagery) for information. Lots of work on the wacom tablet with various layers and dodging and burn techniques. The problem with most Dave Hill styled tutorials, is that they assume that an overuse of dynamic range is the Hill style. It is completely the opposite. There are a lot of work involved in each image and a great understanding of HDR.

By: JamesDX

JamesDX — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:40:20 +0000

Anyone know how to do things like this?

By: Birk

Birk — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:06:54 +0000

This is not even close to Dave Hills images
He’s mainly using light to create his signature effect, and (as he has said in a thread somewhere” he uses the plug-in Lucisart..
And most important: A lot of Dodge and Burn!

By: Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:20:25 +0000

Hi, very nice post. I have been wonder’n bout this issue,so thanks for posting

By: AndrewBoldman

AndrewBoldman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:23:27 +0000

Hi, good post. I have been woondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be coming back to your site.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:45:21 +0000

Yes that’s very true, but he also does a lot of post production work to his images too.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:43:56 +0000

Dave hill uses lighting to achieve his effect. you cant do it with only photoshop.

By: star58

star58 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:38:01 +0000

amazing…this tutorial is very well explained, and its VERY effective… thanks a lot for teaching us ^^

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:15:51 +0000

That looks AWESOME!!!! Can’t wait to try this out!