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.
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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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I noticed a big interest to the focus stacking topic. I will explain a post production part in Photoshop CS5 more detailed. You can read and see the video of a shooting part on Alex’s blog Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5
So, we have a sequence of images: 5, 8, 12. I mean, as many as we need. I have 11 images.
Step 1.
Select the sequence of the photos in Bridge CS5:
Images selection for focus stacking
Step 2.
Continue reading How to do Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5. Jewelry photography post production.
Based on the responses from Alex’s last post about jewelry photo session I”ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Some times I had to almost completely re-create a part of the item: it appears to be faster that to trying to restore lost finish and colors.
We made about 50 images for a talented jewelry designer Elizabeth Dupree Lynch for her Fine Jewelry collection. All jewelry was hand crafted by Italian jewelry master; therefore, retouching was not easy. It took us many hours (big thanks to my helper Anna Yenina:-) to do it.
All “before” objects showed as-is (Camera RAW default settings) photo without focus stacking applied. First image from a sequence is what you’ll see. Images ‘after” have a focus stacking applied.
I am going to do “focus staking in Photoshop cs5″ post next time, but for now you can check out this video how we do a focus stacking.
Some images may look overdone, (especially at 100% crop), but this is what we were able to do considering items’ condition (not new) and an extreme tight schedule for a post production.
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Diamond ring retouching.
Continue reading Jewelry photography retouching: Before and After.
Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta photographer Alex Koloskov
Product (watch) photography, Atlanta, GA
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