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Tonight (Wednesday 3/21/2012) at 10PM Eastern time Alex Koloskov and Dave Nitsche will be talking about this shot as well as will discuss and critique submission form everyone who did the assignment: The Beer Shot weekly assignment.  These are the pictures I’ve used to make the splashing beer shot:
 A detailed tutorial how we did it is coming soon. Check our “E-Books” section.
Some time ago I was impressed with stunning water splash photos some photographers did. I saw flowers, birds, bulls, horses. I was curious how they actually did it? Now I know the answer:-)  Water splash butterfly As you can see at my Layer palette, I did many trials, errors, experimentation. See how many layers turned off:-) But for me it’s only one way to learn – error and trial, and trial again. This what we call experience:-) Continue reading How to do a water splash butterfly. Post production. Recently Alex had a new post on Pixiq.com: Using light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography. It’s not a new technique, we play with it almost 10 years ago, but I think this method is pretty spectacular and expressive. At the same time working with a light brush is so very creative process that it’s hard to stop:-) You fill yourself like a painter:-) Look at the video below and you will see how the final image was created, stroke by stroke.
To create the image, in addition to the knowledge of light and the camera, you should know how to work with masks in Photoshop. I will not teach you the basics of how to work with masks, Google it and you’ll find many great tutorials. Knowing masking in Photoshop is a must for up-to-day photographer or digital artist, IMO. In this post I want to show the difference in visual perception of retouched and not retouched images. There is nothing special in post-production: levels, curves, healing, cloning, transforming. Just routine work and images become more clean, crisp and finished. For some cases we should spend more time for retouching to make photos perfect. However you have to know your final goals and ability to say yourself “Stop! It is good enough now.”:-) Mouse Over to see Before* and After *When I say "Before" this means Camera RAW Default settings.  Alcohol drink photoshop retouching. Continue reading Still life retouching. Glass on black, white and grey. Before and After. This video shows my post production process in photoshop. Some time ago I start to record retouching process of almost every image I work on. So more interesting post production videos to come! stay tuned:-) Fruit splash photography: how much post-production it takes to get a perfect splash from Alex Koloskov on Vimeo. To see before and after retouching photo, please open the entire post.
It was not easy for Alex and me, because we are not a public people. But it was fun and gave us a great feeling that we did something useful:-) We are really enjoy every photo-session with water, because you never know exactly what will come up: every drop is unique:-) This is a very creative process with a lot of experiments. As always, all technical aspects and full length video from the masterclass you can find on Alex Koloskov blog Now I have some photos to share, including before and after post-production. Mouse Over to see Before and After  Water splash photography masterclass Continue reading First AKELstudio LIVE! masterclass went well. We did it!
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Lighting setup, technical details, behind the scene video tutorial for these photos, as always available on our photographer’s blog article: Hope you’ll feel this energy while looking at our images:-) Have a nice day! Mouse Over to see Before and After  Sparkling water photography. Tutorial episod 2. Continue reading Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two 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 photoset:  Water photography tutorial announcement The tutorial with the lighting setup and a video will be released beginning next week. Also, one more exciting news for our readers: The next photoshoot of the “water” series we’ll be broadcasting live form our studio! The live stream will be available on Hi-def format (720p), accessible from any browser and even from smartphones: we’ll be using USTREAM service for the broadcast, there is a viewer available for both iPhone and Droid market. Details will be available later, stay tuned! If you like to know the shooting details, please take a look our photographer’s blog post: Water in still life and advertisement photography: Episode one Here I’ll show you the final images and a little example of post production that was done. Photography with a water usually requires many hours of retouching because of dust (hard to get clear water, if you work on top of the surface right?), air bubbles, wire and fishing line for holding the product.
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