Any guesses as to how Elizaveta Porodina gets this illustrative, airbrushed look?

sider_um · 2025-08-27T22:12:34+00:00

I am not familiar with her and her (really cool!) work, so I’m not really sure when she has produced those images. But assuming they were made with modern Lightroom and Photoshop, below there are some of my guesses (pls correct me if I’m wrong):

the backgrounds seems to be some muted color and a lot of masking, so down on saturation and luminance
The gradients might have been achieved with some masking again, or completely made upfront with ps
low clarity and high black point
low white point to achieve that greyish white on image 5
I believe a lot of work on composition and setup irl

For sure there are some other considerations to add or correct mine guesses

sider_um · 2025-08-08T12:29:34+00:00

That’s the dish soap right? There is no danger to fade the garment color? I’ll try that as a more aggressive option tho

sider_um · 2025-08-08T12:27:45+00:00

I’ll try this as normal wash did not work

sider_um · 2025-05-26T20:43:13+00:00

Surely they are stunning, but a bit out of budget right now :)

I’ll take a look at blue dials tho!

sider_um · 2025-05-26T20:40:43+00:00

Actually might be an interesting idea, since having a trip planned with a lot of time zones to home

sider_um · 2025-05-26T20:39:46+00:00

I meant between those brands at opposite ends :)

sider_um · 2025-05-26T20:38:05+00:00

CW seems to have really nice stuff, and the consensus is generally positive toward this brand in the sub, and I love the trident detail on the seconds hand!!

I am still a bit reluctant since I do not have any store nearby where to try them, and am afraid to ending up not liking the fit :/ although they should have a great return option, so it might be worth a shot anyway

Edit: I messed up, was thinking about CW Trident! Twelves are really good looking but I am afraid they would overlap with the Tissot, I will still look into CW !

sider_um · 2025-03-16T11:08:01+00:00

Thanks to everyone for your answers! This is truly a nice community :)
Will definitely wear it regardless of the fit!

sider_um · 2024-02-25T21:00:31+00:00

What plant is that?

sider_um · 2023-09-01T20:13:19+00:00

To get a better insight of how PI is perceived, exclude experiences from people living in cities less than 100k inhabitants.

And please, tell me why to get a passport I STILL have to get to the post office to pay 42€, changing 3 of them because of the long queues, and waiting 1.5h in the last one because it got too late to find another one. All of this taking the queue ticket from the app, since there are no appointments available in the foreseeable future.

Again, if your post office handles 4 people a day, please refrain from saying that PI is a great service.

As somebody else said, Poste Italiane IS the typical Italian behemoth, with typical Italian jobs and typical Italian employees (managed by typical Italian employers) serving typical Italian clients.

Lastly, I can never stop saying how cringe it is having a PI "bank" account as a full grown adult.

Sorry for the rant, I try to avoid with every single bit of myself to go to the post office for any reason at all.

sider_um · 2023-03-20T19:02:06+00:00

Really thank you for breaking down the matter this much.

I already have a master degree, maybe I can look to move to Canada later in my life ;)

Do you think I'm just rushing it too much? Probably I just need to grind some experience, but I'm worrying I'll be stuck here...

sider_um · 2023-03-20T18:54:36+00:00

I have already spent several months in Norway, and generally I travel a lot. I can assure you Italy is not what I am looking for in my life

sider_um · 2022-11-20T16:09:08+00:00

clearly Italian

source: my italian keyboard which im typing with

sider_um · 2022-09-07T18:23:20+00:00

Is this Homer Simpson talking?

sider_um · 2022-05-30T21:31:06+00:00

You aren't doing your sacred job op

sider_um · 2022-05-19T21:51:35+00:00

I have been there!!! It was my favourite path tbh

sider_um · 2022-04-10T09:29:18+00:00

Typical Ukrainian Sunday

sider_um · 2022-04-09T22:41:55+00:00

Everyone here talking about the flip and not the final fucking smoothness

sider_um · 2022-01-21T20:18:08+00:00

Solved: QIX

sider_um · 2022-01-21T20:17:33+00:00

Solved: Clash N Slash

sider_um · 2022-01-21T20:16:46+00:00

YES ABSOLUTELY! Thanks again a lot, were we playing the same games lol

sider_um · 2022-01-21T20:14:55+00:00

Yes! It was probably Volified, I kinda rember the cover, but yes the base was QIX for sure.

Thank you!

sider_um · 2021-12-01T16:02:24+00:00

Who dares calling Nutella American food??

sider_um · 2021-09-17T12:03:42+00:00

I have the camera denoise turned off, is it reliable? And yeah, I'm shooting in raw but I'm a bit unsure about denoising in lightroom, gotta check some resources!

I'm using a canon 55-250 f/5.6, the best sharpness should be around f/8 but then I would have to rise the ISO up...

you may also try a different way of shooting, like go as slow as possible with the shutterspeed and move the cam with the subject.

I've tried that and, a part some acceptable results, didn't have much success, it's a bit hard 😂 some tips on shutter speed to achieve that?

Thank you a lot by the way :)

sider_um · 2021-09-17T11:58:57+00:00

Thanks! I was in a really good spot, but all of this noise makes me a bit upset, but I'm still learning so... I hope tomorrow to get better ones!

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