We are working on our upcoming ebook (another ebook and video from latest masterclass will be available next week), and here I would like to show you the progress. It is not a regular “before and after” image, as before is not a one image, but a picture that showing what you can get from a set of the images using Photoshop and creativity. Now we (Alex and I) have a good grounding in techniques, so this is time for us become more creative. We will experiment with new devices, techniques, objects. Hope it will be very interesting time. Mouse Over to see Before and After  jewelry photography, post-production and retouching New ebook about how we made this photo will be ready very soon. Thank you for looking. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
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Our Last weekend was awesome! There were lake, forest, live music, camp fire, and great company. Thank you Sasha and Rasa for inviting us. Below are some photos of my family. Post production have took only a couple minutes to drag sliders in Adobe camera RAW converter. This is a such creative and easy process:-) At the bottom of the photos you can find screen shots from RAW converter which show how to achieve this film look effect (split toning and vignetting) with Adobe Camera Raw, part of Photoshop CS5. Mouse Over to see Before and After  Photoshop film look effect Continue reading How to make film look photos in 1 minute: Our weekend camping
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If you are on the way to create new or update your old portfolio this post is for you. I can show you 3 different ways to do it: easy, intermediate and advanced. 1. Easy Only for $50 per year you can get Gorgeous Portfolio with your own domain and without any upload limits. iPhone & iPad ready. And it is really easy. Just upload your best photos and write bio and contact info. There are several themes for choosing. They are simple, clean and elegant. Go to 500px.com and you will have a great portfolio in minutes. Also there you can start your blog if you want. This is the photo portfolio example: Continue reading How to get a professional up-to-date portfolio for a reasonable money.
Update: This script is for edit psd layers in Adobe Camera RAW ONLY, because you can open any TIFF and JPEG through Bridge. Right click on the image and choose Open in Camera RAW… I did not know it. Thank you guys from LinkedIn  ——- Some days, working on customer’s images (not RAW), I had a dream:-) I wish it would be possible to edit TIFF or even JPEG files in Adobe Camera RAW converter. ACR has a very convenient interface and controls, and I’ve got used to work with it. And what a surprise: Calvin Hollywood asked Russell Brown to write this amazing script. You can download the script here. With this script, you are able to open any layer of your psd file in a camera raw converter. It does not matter what image it is: TIFF or a crappy JPEG because you can still use RAW converter interface to adjust it as if it were a RAW (obviously, it won’t make file RAW-like). You can see the video how it works. For a quick test, I tried to edit a JPEG file (made by point-and-shoot camera) of my daughter working in class. The result was truly impressive! Love it! I do not have much TIFFs or JPEGs (we shoot only RAW), but if you have to edit such files this script is able to save a lot of time as ACR converter is very intuitive and convenient. Mouse Over to see Before and After
 Edit layers in ACR script. Photoshop. Thank you for looking. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
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A recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass you can find at Alex's blog. Here is a post production part with some explanations what I did. Hope you will find it interesting:-) Mouse Over to see Before and After retouching  Product photography retouching, video. Thank you for looking. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome! If you like our work, you can subscribe to our RSS feed and "Like" our AKELstudio page on Facebook:-) All the best, Genia
It was such a pleasure to jump in the middle of the summer, especially when outside is a cold, freezing and going to snow. I love summer, I love sun and palms:-) I really hope we move to live in a such “always summer” place. I am talking about our week vacation on Key West, Florida. It was a true joy to spend a week there, with our friends. And now, in a cold Atlanta I enjoy to work with these warm pictures we brought from Key West . As always, I experiment with the post production: now trying to do a most work in RAW converter and then a little touch-up in Photoshop. Working with RAW in converter gives me the most from the image (speaking of the quality), as I want to make sure I can use my experience in a commercial work as well. Below the set, use your mouse to see before and after. Mouse Over to see Before and After 
Continue reading Key West photos. Before and after Photoshop.
My blog has been featured on Guide to Art Schools’ list of the Top Architectural Photography Blogs. It’s funny: As soon as we have decided to remove the architecture portfolio from our portfolios and concentrate only on a product photography, we got such interest in our architecture photography:-) Me and Alex like architecture, but for now a studio photography is much more interesting for us: concentrating only in a studio work we’ll have more chances to become “world best” in what we do.. and we both won’t accept less:-) But any way that’s cool!
Finally we updated our old stock web site. Now there will be only a water and things related to a water. No children, animals, nature or architecture – only water. Water, water everywhere…. This site has a long history.
Alex, as a programmer, crated it when we even don’t think about professional photography business, created simply because we had a huge collection of nice photos, and we wanted to leverage some money from our expensive hobby.
Even though we knew that to be successful, small stock sites should have a very narrow niche (by the subject of the photography), but that time we thought that our photos are so exceptional (probably every amateur gets through this stage  that our photography is going to be selling like a Christmas trees in December:-) So, we loaded all the different collections on the www.akelphoto.com, virtually everything we had: kids, landscapes, transportation etc. But quite fast we found that there is no way we can compete with monsters like Alamy, Getty, Corbis. Then, in few years, microstock agencies came into a play, and we finally understood that being very dedicated to a specific subject is the only way to get at least a small piece from the stock photography pie.
So now we leave water and only water. And I believe our water photos are exceptional:-) The site was re-designed, improved and cleaned. Welcome to www.akelphoto.com
Stock images are licensed on a Royalty-Free basis*, we provide instant download right after a secure payment will be processed. I am sure there will be a lot of designers who would be happy to have access to our water stock collection, so please share the info. All the best,
Genia *Royalty-free means that you pay a one-time flat fee for an image. It can then be used for multiple projects over an unlimited period of time. Royalty-free images are licensed on a non-exclusive basis. As a result, you would typically use an RF image in a project where you are not concerned about a competitive conflict or where the image may not be the primary focus of the piece.
We are back from our small vacation. There was fabulous 3 days of relax in Georgia mountains. We lived in a beautiful house in Hiawassee, Lake Chatuge, Northeast Mountains, Georgia, USA (100 Miles North of Atlanta, GA). Thank you, Doug and Beckie I don’t remember when I had a such relaxed rest last time:-) Alex made some pictures of us and “Eye Candy” breathtaking mountain and lake views from the deck. All technical details you can read on Alex’s blog. Enjoy the photos: 
Continue reading Great vacation and awesome pictures.
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