Can somebody please tell me the difference between the kind of filters used in these photos:
First:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-2205888-1519EF8B000005DC-943_6 34x805.jpg
Second:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-2205888-151944C2000005DC-896_6 34x1051.jpg
The first has a sort of platinum look to it and the other is more realistic, I prefer the platinum!
MacBook (13-inch Late 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I don't use filters, but I can tell you that the first is excessively green and a bit under-saturated, and the second is slightly overly red. If you want to replicate the style of the first photo, select "Temp and Tint" in the White Balance brick, and lower the Temp a good bit, then raise the Tint a little.
Ah, so this was definitely post production then?
I'm sorry -- I misunderstood you use of "filter". I thought you meant it as used by programs such as Photoshop. It now seems you mean an actual in-front-of-the-lens filter?
In either case, there isn't enough information to tell, afaict. The difference seems much more likely to come from carelessness than anything deliberate.
I managed to get something similar in Aperture by reducing the saturation, and changing the blue curve a bit.
Ah, interesting, I never use the Adjustment feature, I like to leave my photos untouched or "real" as I like to call them. I think it could just have been a bulb flash and nothing was changed, although I'm sure an effect can be applied it was probably accidental.
I only ask because I like the effect, I think it's flattering, maybe it's the colour of clothes she's wearing?
ALL photos are processed. There is NOTHING -- really, truly, and importantly -- "real" about them. What you see is the result of hundreds of thousands of hours of engineering. If you like something, what you like is the result of choices made my engineers ahead of time and applied at the moment of exposure.
You can live with those choices, or you can make your own. But it is a mistake -- scientifically, aesthetically, and philosophically -- to think that those choices represent anything more "real" than other choices. Leaving your digital camera files untouched does not make them "real" -- it just means how they look was decided by engineers who never saw the scene you attempted to record with a digital light recorder.
Photo filter style?
