Half year ago we did a product photo-session for Vieler International.
Now Andre Vieler asked us to shoot exterior photos of the whole plant. We used a fork lifter to raise the photographer to a height where was much less perspective distortion. This works much better then any tilt/shift lens, I wish we could have such lifter for all of our architectural projects:-)
Here I’ll show you how I did a post-production, some parts of work flow. Here is the image before and after:
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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.
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Water splash photography masterclass
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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 my new knowledge for this retouching. I’ll show you the result in couple months because now it is a confidential information.
Stay in touch!
It is not to easy to find lessons or tutorials how Pro prepare images of models for magazines and advertising. I try to accumulate information what I learn from different professional retouchers in this tutorial.
I do not pretend to “guru” status, you can correct me. I just want to learn how to do sublime retouching and post-production and share my knowledge with you.
This is an example of fast work-flow for a portrait retouching and post-production for print or web. If you like to learn this process in more details you can find a bonus links below.
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Portrait retouching and post-production lesson
1 step. Clean Skin
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or how to make a white background (RGB:255.255.255) and prepare image for a catalog print
Step 1. Finding not white areas of the background
- Convert photo from Raw using Raw Converter
- Duplicate layer
- Create New fill ore adjusted layer/Curves:
Create new fill or adjustment layer
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This article is for those who do not have tilt shift adapter or TS lens and still do architecture photography.
I’ll show you how to correct perspective distortion using Photoshop. Camera lens distortions occur frequently when taking pictures of architectural subjects with a wide-angle lens and the need to use an external program. Distortion will always have place when we shoot tall buildings, tilting the camera upwards. There is no way (unless you have TS adapter or lens) to get vertical lines to be vertical on a picture, as it will fall in the middle.
However, you can easily correct camera lens distortions using Photoshop or other photo software.
Below you can find list of software for lens distortion and perspective correction and tutorial how to fix it in Adobe Photoshop
How to correct perspective distortions of an image using the Adobe Photoshop Free Transform Tool.
Before lens distortion and perspective correction
After lens distortion and perspective correction
All you have to do is:
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note: This lesson will be useful for photo retouchers, who will be dealing with partially overexposed image, where important to see exactly where overexposed areas is. For example, if you need to get completely white background, etc.
Couple years ago we found that a histogram on the camera or different software’s don’t show overexposed areas correctly. Here is why: camera histogram will use JPEG to evaluate, even if you shoot RAW. So, it is inaccurate by definition.
When I’ve tried to find the answer in Internet, I get no luck, there are only tutorials and lessons how to fix this overexposed areas in Photoshop, but nothing about how to find these areas correctly.
So this tutorial about how to find and determine overexposed and underexposed areas using Photoshop.
Look at this image:
Some areas are overexposed here. Let’s check where are these areas:
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It is very easy. I know, most of you know how to do it. But may be some of you find something new in this tutorial. Let’s start. Open your photo that you want to re-size and adjust for web.
Step 1 – Manual Levels adjustments.
In this step we will make the image more bright, contrast and crisp.
Image ->Adjustments -> Levels
Level adjustments in Photoshop
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Mark your images as your own.
There are many methods how to make copyright or watermark on images. Most popular way is to create action and apply it to all images at once, but sometime it is hard to make it fit nicely both vertical and horizontal oriented images. You can find such tutorials in internet . I’ll describe the method what I use while preparing photos for blogs or forum. The advantage of this technique is that you can put your copyright text in a better place for each photo. Here is a simple way to use brushes in Photoshop.
Final photo with copyright
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Naturally, High Key portraits should be done with a studio lighting and it is good to have at least three light sources, plus reflectors. Photographer for a purpose overexposing most of the objects in a scene, making them look just pure white. Very few shadows can be left on a model’s face.
However, with the mister PhotoShop in charge, we can have the same effect on a regular, normally exposed image. Below I’ll show you how to do
a pseudo High Key photography using Photoshop.
High key portrait created in Photoshop
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