Big kids of our friends asked us to shoot their Senior Pictures for Walton High School Yearbook. During the shoot Alex had a chance to test his DIY Vagabond II and I experiment with several post-production and retouching techniques.
For some of the images I used this tutorial: The Double RAW Conversion Tutorial from Calvin Hollywood. I really like the double RAW conversion method and use it often.
Here is the result:
Studio portraits
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Studio portrait photography, Atlanta, GA
Studio portrait photographer, Atlanta, GA
Continue reading Senior portraits post-production and retouching. Before and After.
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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Continue reading Architecture photography post-production and retouching for Vieler International.
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
Continue reading First AKELstudio LIVE! masterclass went well. We did it!
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.
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Wing City2City Opening Soon. Wing City2City Take-Out Restaurant Will Provide The Best Chicken Wings In The Gainesville Ga.
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Food photographer, Atlanta GA
Continue reading Restaurant menu food photography.
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!
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Sparkling water photography. Tutorial episod 2.
Continue reading Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two
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
Continue reading Portrait retouching manual and bonus links
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
Continue reading Is the white background really white?
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
Continue reading How to create a High Key Photography Effect in Photoshop
Retouching and editing photos for stock agencies
Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov
You can buy these images on our stock photos web site AKELphoto
Food photographer, Atlanta GA
Continue reading Water splash and fruits royalty free stock images
