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Before and after photo of our upcoming ebook.

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:23:20 +0000

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 [...]Related posts:

How to make film look photos in 1 minute: Our weekend camping

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:27:28 +0000

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 [...]Related posts:

WOW! Our water splash photo in 3D design

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:09:12 +0000

Check this link: www.liquipel.com

Related posts:How to do a water splash butterfly. Post production. Water splash photography and post-production for products advertisement. Water splash and fruits royalty free stock images

How to get a professional up-to-date portfolio for a reasonable money.

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:59:40 +0000

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. EasyOnly for $50 per year you can get Gorgeous Portfolio with your own domain and without any upload limits. iPhone & iPad [...]Related posts:

Recent discovery: Dr. Brown’s Adobe Photoshop CS5 Script – Edit Layers in ACR.

admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:47:40 +0000

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:-) [...]Related posts:

Product photography behind the scene video: Post production part.

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:20:23 +0000

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:-)

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Key West photos. Before and after Photoshop.

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:15:04 +0000

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, [...]Related posts:

List of Top Architectural Photography Blogs.

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:02:50 +0000

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 [...]Related posts:

Our old stock images web site starts a New Life.

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:20:00 +0000

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 [...]Related posts:

Great vacation and awesome pictures.

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:27:10 +0000

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 [...]Related posts:

Plans, updates and artificial ice.

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:47:50 +0000

BUSY, BUSY BUSY time! Lots of work, plans, ideas and holidays:-) Just finished couple very interesting exclusive projects but unfortunately we can't release it now because of disclose agreement.Also we are preparing new lessons and master classes. We have bought some new props for it:-) I think you know that many photographers use artificial food, drinks, [...]Related posts:

How to shoot watches like a pro: new AKELstudio LIVE Masterclass announced!

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:08:33 +0000

This is the announcement of our next LIVE Masterclass. More details please find at Alex Koloskov's blog.LIVE Masterclass will be completely free, but recorded video will cost $49. Video will include bonus; a retouching for the watch.Below is the image before and after post-production. Similar photo we will do on our Masterclass.Join us Sunday 24 [...]Related posts:

The Sole Seduction Networking Event! I won the $250.00 Gift Basket from The Avenue.

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:35:02 +0000

Thank you, Maryan (Dash Photography) and Melissa (Mellabelle Designs) for inviting me to a great Sole Seduction Fashionista Networking Event, it was really glorious.And a big surprise! I won the $250.00 Gift Basket from The Avenue Forsyth!This a nice blur effect is not Photoshop or any other editing software: direct from a camera RAW, no [...]Related posts:

Our twins go to school, so I am back to blogging:-)

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:14:41 +0000

We had a very busy month: a lot of assignment work, LIVE masterclass and preparation for our girls first school, Montessori. Eventually we got everyone ready, washed and potty-trained, and Monday was a first day of school for our girls and some sort of beginning of a new life for us:-)Now I will have more [...]Related posts:

Water photography webinar-masterclass (LIVE!) is scheduled for Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:50 +0000

AKELstudio glad to announce a date for our first LIVE webinar-masterclass: Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.We’ll be doing our water photography third tutorial, creating photos similar you see below. The lesson will take about an hour, plus some additional time when I can answer your questions.The registration is completely free and one click [...]Related posts:

RetouchPRO LIVE webinar with Steve Koshlap

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:27:26 +0000

Yesterday I attended RetouchPRO LIVE webinar with Steve Koshlap. Steve is a professional jewelry and beauty retoucher. He demonstrated the diamond and jewelry retouch from start to finish using Photoshop. The information was really useful. Looking forward to see his other webinars.Exactly in this time Alex was shooting a jewelry:-) And now I can use [...]Related posts:

Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two (announcement)

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:38:30 +0000

AKELstudio is glad to announce a new upcoming tutorial, we are working on it right now. This is a second episode from our “using water in product photography” series (the first one is here).This time we used a carbonated water, pepper, colored lights and other ingredients:-). Enjoy a little preview, the first image form the [...]Related posts:

International Color Awards. We got a nomination again!

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:59:06 +0000

Our 3 photos are nominees in Food Nominee Professional Category again. Hope one day we will have Photographer of the Year award!The Photography Master Cup is a global online awards show recognizing excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the finest professional and non-professional photographers and is presented by International Color [...]Related posts:

Photography tutorial announcement: Splashing water advertisement photoshoot in development

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:40:50 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA Atlanta commercial photographer Alex KoloskovGlad to announce that we eventually got time to work on the tutorial/master class of underwater splash product photography shoot. We’ll be doing behind the scene video and a blog post, with all setup explained, including every little tips and tricks we used to get job done.Here is [...]Related posts:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:53:43 +0000

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is a digital darkroom and efficient assistant designed for serious amateur and professional photographers. With Lightroom, you can organize, enhance, and showcase your images all from one fast and nimble application that’s available on Macintosh and Windows® platforms.The Lightroom 3 beta program is available to the public, so that means anyone [...]Related posts: