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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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:-)
First, you need a huge set of water splash images and second, many hours of assiduous work. And here is my water splash butterfly:  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. Continue reading Light brush painting. Post-production.
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.
This is my first video, I think water and product retouching is hard to find, and I am sure my video will be very interesting for those who do products. 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.
Continue reading Retouching water splash in photoshop. Video.
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.
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!
Lighting setup, technical details, behind the scene video tutorial for these photos, as always available on our photographer’s blog article:
Water in product and advertisement photography: episode two released!
Today I’ll show you my retouching work. I really enjoyed working with such vivid bright colors. I am a color person, never liked black & white or sepia:-). This is why working with these colorful photos makes me truly happy and positive for entire day. 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.
Chat will be opened for all registered users: our photographer Alex Koloskov will be glad to answer all your questions real time. Details will be available later, stay tuned!
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