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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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
ou can buy all this images in High Resolution on our stock photos web sites:
Night Atlanta, GA stock images
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Listed below is a list of books which have not only inspired me but also helped me to become the person I am. 2009 was one of the crucial years in my life.
I highly recommend to read these books.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a life changing book that is why this incredible book has been a best seller now for over 8 years and is still in the top 20 of all books being sold right now.
And books on Russian language:
«Семнадцать мгновений успеха: стратегии лидерства»
“Апгрейд обезьяны. Большая история маленькой сингулярности”
Good luck!
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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Our photographer Alex Koloskov recently photographed clarity coach Lana Kravtsova.
Lana is great to work with, and she made the casual business headshot session a very enjoyable experience for all our team. Lana has a blog and web site Positivity Place focusing on positive thinking and getting in the flow by knowing yourself. For example, a recent post begins with “If you want to go There, you have to leave Here first“.
Studio business portrait
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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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