Movie poster quality workflow?

[Rawfa]

Hi Guys,

Additionally to light I was wondering what work flow (shooting and color correcting) should be followed to achieve this type of quality:

HDR and some heavy CC? Has anyone ever achieved such results?

 

[frechdachs]

Hi Rafa,

my guess is that you could achieve such a result with some desaturation and (split?)toning. The exposure layer also allows to achieve some "strange" colour effects. For the grain effect you can use noise filter.
I had some fun playing around when seeing these two tutorials, maybe some combination of both would do the trick? (I would not use exactly these procedures for large images as the memory consumption would be too much for my computer, but for starters to get some ideas its quite ok):
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/overprocessed-photo/
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/extreme-contrast/

Andrea