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:
Mouse Over to see Before and After
Continue reading Architecture photography post-production and retouching for Vieler International.
This post I would like to devote to my friend and a very talented person Anna Shafigina.
She has a great taste and perfect sense of style and harmony, her perfectionism allows her to achieve blameless outcome in any fields. Today I will show you Anna’s talent for an interior decoration and design. She decorated this room for her baby boy Nicolas. Amazingly good, isn’t it?
Photography by Atlanta photographer Alex Koloskov
Retouching by Genia Larionova
Interior Design Photographer
Continue reading Kids room decoration from the artist and designer Anna Shafigina
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:
Continue reading Lens distortion and perspective correction in architecture photography
Finally we’ve finished our kitchen in the studio, mainly because we were heading to a photo-shoot with one of our best customer Shirley O. Corriher who is really pleasure to work with.
Shirley O. Corriher is a biochemist and author of CookWise:
- The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking, winner of a James Beard Foundation award, and
- BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking.
Shirley O. Corriher combines a background in biochemistry, an appreciation of good food, and a raconteur’s ease with anecdotes to help cooks both budding and expert understand the science behind cooking. We had a chance to shoot her amassing pastries for the book.
You can buy Shirley’s book with wonderful receipts (and our images inside) in these stores: Amazon ans Barnes & Noble
And here is our new studio kitchen 
Welcome!
Our studio kitchen for food photography
If you would like to see some of the photos from our photo session for Shirley’s BakeWise book you can see at AKELstudio blog
I would like to share some examples on how we do a post-processing for architectural photography. Below you’ll see before and after images with explanation what we did and how. Sometime the result looks like HDR, but it is not a real HDR, where HDR processor compiles several images into one. The results often looks not real, showing non-existent lighting and colors. Which is OK for the Art, but unacceptable for a commercail photography.
The best way is a manual process, where we replace some parts of the image, using masking or working with dodge or burn tools. More examples of such techniques you can find in our Portfolio
Exterior architectural photography
Post-production:
- Camera RAW processing
- Cleaning with Clone Stamp Tool
- Alignment using Guides and Free Transform
- Asphalt Retouching
- Crop, Resize for web and apply Unsharp Mask
Continue reading Architectural Photography Post-Production
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