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Preston vs. Brown I
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Russell Brown has been an Adobe employee for 25 years and exchanges his Photoshop expertise with photographer Robin Preston.
Both of them experienced the development of digital image retouching with Photoshop from the outset. Having started with rub down typesets, the leap to printing texts and working with costly hard- and software to implement CGI was a milestone at that time.
Despite all progress, they adhered to one principle: think analogue, work digitally.
Storytelling
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A picture says more than a thousand words, and that is just what Mike Larson wants to adhere to.
Telling a proper story with a series of photographs requires to determine a theme as well as the right handling with the models on location. To plan and implement a shooting in a more unusual manner will result in images that stand out from the ordinary. Larson prefers a tilt-shift lens for this purpose, which lets him experiment with depth of field to deliberately stress certain areas of a picture.
Watermarking in Lightroom
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With the advent of digital photography and the Web came one of the major benefits, sharing photographs online, to be viewed instantly by people around the world.
This has, however led to people's photography being used without their permission, thereby depriving them of potential financial reward and credit for their work. One way to help prevent this, is to watermark your photos. We've all seen photographs with either some text, or a logo, superimposed on a photograph to identify the photographer. Using an image manipulation program, such as Adobe's Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, it is possible to add a watermark, but without some considerable technical know-how, it's difficult to add one to multiple images.
This is where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes to the rescue. In this tutorial, Mike Le Gray will guide you through setting up Lightroom so that you can batch-process your completed images, not only adding a watermark, but also converting color-space, file type, adding sharpening, etc.
Whitening the Skin
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Learn how to create the porcelain like skin you see in the magazines with some easy techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer will show you two possible ways to achieve the wanted look. At first, she will show you how to do it in Lightroom using only the possibilities a Raw conversion offers.
In addition, she will switch to Adobe Photoshop and show you how to get nice results in photoshop, where you can't use the same way as in Lightroom or another Raw-Converter.
She uses a little trick to acomplish the goal of a white skin.
Watch this video and learn the technique to create a skin like this yourself!
Wine Photography á la Surprise
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The Digital Pinhole Photography II
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Martin Timm is back with part two in his series on digital pinhole photography. Here he has gathered all the necessary ingredients to cook up a pinhole adapter that can fit any digital SLR.
The techniques used to construct it is right out of your grade school handicraft's hour. This amazingly simple approach using toilet paper rolls, tin foil, rubber bands glue etc is carefully explained. The result: a ready to use handy-dandy pinhole attachment for your digital camera that's ready to use.
So now it's time to get your feet wet..literally. Martin takes it outside and gives a hands-on demonstration using the pinhole adapter to compose a great picture, demonstrating it works too. So check it out!
Storing and Archiving Digital Photos
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Photographer and “Naturfoto” magazine editor Hans-Peter Schaub discusses the steps and the pitfalls to creating and maintaining a digital and analog image archive. Schaub focuses on the workflow involved and how to optimize photographic images so that archiving images runs as smoothly as possible.
Starting with the basic tools necessary to begin an analog image archive, Schaub shows viewers the different materials and equipment needed, such as the right archival sleeves, scanners and data storage software and devices. One main point of the video is definitely data back-up, data storage and data security. Schaub list several different methods to store analog material and several different methods to safely store and back-up complete archives and data files to prevent loss or damage.
Many photographers will benefit from Schaub’s experience and comprehensive examples, as well as his useful tips and information. One thing Schaub recommends is creating a clear and concise method of assigning keywords for the images to be archived. This is one piece of advice a photographer preparing to archive his images cannot do without.
In the long run Schaub’s methods will save photographers lots of time and undoubtedly stress, when searching for images or sending the images out to prospective clients for viewing.
The Digital Pinhole Photography I
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Ray Flash Light
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The frontpages of fashion and beauty magazines are full of pictures without any shadows at the face. To achieve this look, one needs a flash device that allows even lighting.
If one is not willing to pay a few hundret dollars for a ring flash, you will be delighted to hear, that there is another possibility:
Mike le Gray explaines how to use a ray flash, how it works and what the advantages and disadvantages are, when compared to a normal ring flash.
He photographs his model in front of a white background and explains the effect, the light creates. Later on, he changes the background to black and shoots a few more pictures with Navenna.
In this video, you will learn a lot about the technique and usage of a ray flash, allowing you to do great shots without spending a lot of money.
Low Cost Glamour
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To do great portraits, it is not necessary to buy lots of expensive equipment. Mike le Gray explaines, how to do glamourous portraits with low budget equipment.
Starting with only an external flash light, he shows, what you need to add to get a smooth lighting. He adds an umbrella to soften to shadows a little and a piece of styropor to eliminate the hard shadow under the chin.
In addition, he explains, how to get a whiter background. With this trick, you'll be able to do shots with grey and white backgrounds without changing the background paper.
In this video, you will learn a lot about lighting techniques without buying expensive studio lighting equipment.