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I have been trying to figure out how to take photo's with very dramatic perspectives for a very VERY long time. I always found myself frustrated because of the lack of equipment or the steps to replicate this effect. So I won't post three dots or keep any secrets of the trade, after all, its about your imagination not photoshop skills that count in the end..right?

The intention of this photo still is surreal, please do not move it to resources/tutorials/manipulations etc. Thank you DA staff.

Steps
1.) Filter < Distort < Lens correction... (Set distortion so that the correction is set around +25 to +80 depending how much you want to warp-in on the original photo.) Apply a full vignette amount if you wish.

2.) Crop out the extremities so your left with a clean box or your frame of area.

3.) New Channel Mixer Layer... (Play around with the presets and find one that makes your subject stand apart from the background.) For that darkish look without so much contrast, make sure all the amounts of color are less than 80% Its all about getting a good medium gray. Pure black and white isn't what were shooting for here.

3.) New Curve Layer...Play with the RGB channel and go back to the channel mixer layer if you must and have it so that the darkest blacks are in fact black and the brightest whites are actually a very medium gray. This is where the practice comes in, so just fiddle with it a lot. For the untrained eye this photo may seem only black and white, but it has a little blue channel curve to it giving it that faded dark yellow tint. To play around with individual channels instead of one RGB channel, select the drop-down list and select blue. For this particular photo, I made a very subtle "S" shaped slope. Remember, very subtle changes in these individual channels can impact the photo largely. You can also play around with where the start and endpoint's of the curve are to get better results. Click and drag the very bottom left point up a little bit and move the end point down a little bit down with the same amount of spacing. You will see a gentle blend of cyan and dark yellow compliment each other as in this photo.

Note: Making a heavy emphasis on the start and endpoints of individual curve channels can create some interesting "vintage/retro" effects. For more on what I am talking about, refer to [link] video on Youtube for more information

*Tips* If you know you want a certain photo to be done like this, set-up ahead of time. I shot this at almost 200mm on a digital camera lens, the farther the range the more everything around the subject becomes blurred. As you can see, the vignette along with the natural "Bokeh" or lens blur at 200mm compliment each other. I couldn't of really pulled this off nice perspective with a flat image, get me?

If you have any more questions, comment and I will try to answer them as best as I can, thanks for viewing!

Description
I have been trying to figure out how to take photo's with very dramatic perspectives for a very VERY long time. I always found myself frustrated because of the lack of equipment or the steps to replicate this effect. So I won't post three dots or keep any secrets of the trade, after all, its about your imagination not photoshop skills that count in the end..right?

The intention of this photo still is surreal, please do not move it to resources/tutorials/manipulations etc. Thank you DA staff.

Steps
1.) Filter < Distort < Lens correction... (Set distortion so that the correction is set around +25 to +80 depending how much you want to warp-in on the original photo.) Apply a full vignette amount if you wish.

2.) Crop out the extremities so your left with a clean box or your frame of area.

3.) New Channel Mixer Layer... (Play around with the presets and find one that makes your subject stand apart from the background.) For that darkish look without so much contrast, make sure all the amounts of color are less than 80% Its all about getting a good medium gray. Pure black and white isn't what were shooting for here.

3.) New Curve Layer...Play with the RGB channel and go back to the channel mixer layer if you must and have it so that the darkest blacks are in fact black and the brightest whites are actually a very medium gray. This is where the practice comes in, so just fiddle with it a lot. For the untrained eye this photo may seem only black and white, but it has a little blue channel curve to it giving it that faded dark yellow tint. To play around with individual channels instead of one RGB channel, select the drop-down list and select blue. For this particular photo, I made a very subtle "S" shaped slope. Remember, very subtle changes in these individual channels can impact the photo largely. You can also play around with where the start and endpoint's of the curve are to get better results. Click and drag the very bottom left point up a little bit and move the end point down a little bit down with the same amount of spacing. You will see a gentle blend of cyan and dark yellow compliment each other as in this photo.

Note: Making a heavy emphasis on the start and endpoints of individual curve channels can create some interesting "vintage/retro" effects. For more on what I am talking about, refer to [link] video on Youtube for more information

*Tips* If you know you want a certain photo to be done like this, set-up ahead of time. I shot this at almost 200mm on a digital camera lens, the farther the range the more everything around the subject becomes blurred. As you can see, the vignette along with the natural "Bokeh" or lens blur at 200mm compliment each other. I couldn't of really pulled this off nice perspective with a flat image, get me?

If you have any more questions, comment and I will try to answer them as best as I can, thanks for viewing!