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Because it was a challenge from someone (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) a while back that I just got around to, so here you go, some of the more prevalent styles of BJD photography against my own (if you can call it a style!) and the original they were all worked up from.

Essentially, take one, mediocre, inherently lacking in anything akin to star quality photo that didn't make the cut from the original shoot. Indulge in some photoshop fuckery. Voila.

1. Original
NOTHING done to it whatsoever, straight off the camera, just sized.

2. Mine
Heavy on the darkness/contrast, light sepia tint, lift the vaseline-on-the-lens that the Canon gives everything a touch.

3. Hipster
Slate blue tint and bokeh (either real or fake) ESSENTIAL. Bonus points if you can fiddle with the saturation to make everything look SLIGHTLY off and throw in a pair of thick framed glasses.

4. Instagram
If it don't look like a 35 year old, central focus point polaroid thats been in the bottom of a drawer for the majority of it's life, it ain't done right. Bonus points for having the worst kind of mess in the background, in an arty blur.

5. Noir
HEAVY on everything except colour, because that's not allowed. ALLL ISSS BLAAAACCCKKKK.

6. Arty Lightbox
If that one lamp the size of a sun ain't casting weird shapes on the synthetic white behind you, whilst simultaneously bleaching out highlights, you've missed your mark!
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~InkognitoPuschel Dec 29, 2012
What for a Photoshop do you use?
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*lulufae Dec 29, 2012
What do I use it for? Basically everything you see in the shots there :)
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~InkognitoPuschel Dec 29, 2012
o.o oh.... merdé x.x i hoped that it were ONE photoshop, u3u (example. Photoshop elements 11 ) x.x
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*lulufae Dec 29, 2012
Ohhh ok, I use Photoshop 7, there's a whole load of different filters and stuff in there :)
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~InkognitoPuschel Dec 29, 2012
Okay thank you!:D
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*LucidRequiem Nov 12, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Sadly I like a lot of these lol the way you've done them anyway
I like Your Style - Hipster - Arty Lightbox...the original is nice too.
Never been crazy about the too dark Noir photos though and I enjoy and use instagram for fun but not for actual art. I have several of my DA photos on my instagram but they were on my DA first and then uploaded to instagram without adding extra instagrammy effects if that makes sense? Just the straight up file (as it is how I uploaded it to DA) from the comp to the phone and then from the phone to instagram.
I will freely admit I use bokeh lol both real and fake (fake only now because for some reason no matter what setting I used to use or try to use now, I can no longer get my camera to produce a pretty bokeh) but I think bokeh is okay and pretty if minimal (as the one in your hipster trial up there)...simple background...simple setting...and a little bokeh I think works well but it's all personal opinion. I have one boy who gets bokeh in most of his photos simply because it's significant to his character. That may sound weird but he's like a bright spot of light within the rest of the bland people he had to be around growing up...so the light kinda reflects on that. I know others don't know it looking at his photos...but I do and that's okay! =)
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*lulufae Nov 12, 2012
Oh I think we've all been guilty of most of these at some point tbh, such is the nature of still life photography *snort*
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*LucidRequiem Nov 12, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I think so too! =D as long as the composition is nice and everything isn't too overdone I think they can all be nice staples at some point and in some way.
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~SunlitDreams Sep 29, 2012
How do you lift the vaseline-on-the-lense that Canon gives everything? I feel like I have a million photos stored that will never be posted because there's just a hint of blur that bugs me.
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*lulufae Sep 30, 2012
I use live view focus, zoom in as much as I can and make it as sharp as I can ON the camera, and then afterwards, if that's still not good enough, a little bit of the sharpen tool in photoshop to lift it where it's not as good as I'd like *nod* I'm sure a proper photographer could tell you a million ways to do it properly mind you *snort*
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