What are the effects done to this photograph?

Question

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q108/mtude3/Judd.jpg

I'm pretty intrigued by the way this photograph looks. It's like it's black and white but different. Hmm. Does anyone know how a photograph like this is made?

Answer 1

umm it is black and white but it looks like the brightness is tweaked, you can do that in windows photo gallery by clicking fix

Answer 2

Hue/saturation play.

Answer 3

its black-white filter.

Answer 4

they probably changed the contrast.

Answer 5

it looks like one of three things

1. the photograph is a little over exposed when processing

2. they may have used a filter on the lens, can't think which one

3. It looks like an infrared film may have been used, although this usually causes more washout then this photo shows.

Answer 6

black and white film, probably hi ISO as the photog knew he'd be shooting in a dark hall.. the grain looks like that of like an 800 or higher speed film.

Answer 7

I'm just guessing here, but it might have been an old-fashioned camera. Or it may have been a specially designed effect, made to make rock stars look like their from the past.

Answer 8

It looks like a b&w film shot with a lot of contrast - maybe push processed. The "graininess" is actually JPEG noise - the pic has been compressed at very low quality. Not sure what's going on in the top of the frame.

Answer 9

Probably not photoshoped, probably a film shot.

Answer 10

It seems like they added the black and white effect artificially, and messed with the contrast, also his jaw line stands out a lot, they probably used an advanced from of photoshop.

Answer 11

either

its scanned and put to black and white

or the used a program to make it GRAINNY

Answer 12

they changed it to black and white and then they added less exposure, more temperature, and increased the contrast, at least, that's what it looked like to me.

Answer 13

Jeeeeze!

It's a black and white photograph, everyone.

And a poor one, at that.

Answer 14

It just has a high contrast level, or was taken with a very strong flash.

Answer 15

with film; they probably used a really high but cheap iso film like 1600 WITH FLASH and scanned it in with a crappy scanner with a very small dpi and converted it to black and white, then they turned up the brightnest and the contrast to something really high too. Why would you want a picture like that though? the composition or subject is nice, but the quality isn't.

Answer 16

yeah your right its black and white im sure they could of done it on photoshop or any photoediting software or even on a camera phone  

Answer 17

Whether or not this is a native b/w image or one converted in Photoshop is irrelevant as there is no way to know and are just guessing.

What I am sure about is that this photo was severely overexposed by the camera's flash, losing almost all detail in the skin. Someone later spent some time trying to regain some of that lost detail in Photoshop or some other editing program, which explains the flat gray blob on the musician's right cheek and the light gray lips, giving a slightly posterized look to the image. I've had to deal with these types of images hundreds of times (not my own, mind you) and know that look well. Okay, maybe I've done it once or twice myself.

As for those oddly shaped blobs near the top of the photo, I have no idea.

Answer 18

It just looks like it was put in black and white, and the lighting in the place made it look strange.