I have been asked many times about the post production I do for a landscape photography. This post should answer some of the questions, as I’ll show you how and what I did on the images from our trip to Key West, FL. Funny thing that there is no Photoshop (by it’s common meaning): I’ve used RAW converter to do all (except sharping) the job. This is why Alex shoot always RAW, and I like to work with RAW files. It is much faster and cleaner to use a RAW converter and a batch processing to get a perfectly adjusted large stack of the photos.
Below I show you several screen shots, so you can see what adjustments I did in RAW Converter for the particular image. You can’t simply apply these settings for your picture, as they may not work in your case, but you can see the idea and experiment with your own image by moving sliders and see the difference.
A recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass you can find at Alex's blog. Here is a post production part with some explanations what I did. Hope you will find it interesting:-)
Mouse Over to see Before and After retouching
Product photography retouching, video.
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I am glad to start a first post in New Year with our recent creative shot for our good customer, a company called aDesign. The assignment was to create an image for the front page of the company website, and should look WOW!
It was really fun to work on such project and play with the lighting. We did several different variations and I choose these two photos to show them here, at my blog:
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:-)
If you believe in self-education (like I do), you don’t need to go to a school or college to become a retoucher, you should only know the right places where to find an information and spend many many hours, days and years for practice. I can help you with right resources where you can learn the High End retouching techniques. Hope it will save your time, energy and money (I wish I had these links couple years ago:-)
Most helpful and friendly community for retouchers is RetouchPro.
RetouchPro hosts a regular live, interactive masterclasses where you watch a guest retoucher’s desktop as they work in real time. You can also ask questions for the guest retoucher. These live events usually cost only $10 and for this money you will get a ton of useful information.
Absolutely awesome unique clothes. It is a pleasure just to hold it in hands:-)
I very like a stage photography, creativity and unusual results with such type of photography.
At the end we are getting gorgeous pictures of my kids, every mom wants to have great photos of her children:-)
Lilia is an excellent model. Almost 3 years old toddler act seriously as a professional model:-) You can see her on a stage on the behind-the-scene video below.
As always, all technical aspects and full length video from this photo-session you can find on Alex Koloskov blog
Recently we had a photo-shoot for Anisa International, Inc. a leading cosmetic brush design and manufacturing company based in Atlanta, GA.
Anisa Telwaris CEO & Founder of Anisa International. She is Creative entrepreneur who started a small distributorship in 1992 and built it into a successful cosmetic global enterprise. Opened a state-of-the art manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China in 2003. Read more about this talented inspirational woman and see the video interview at Women Are Saving The World Now blog.
It is always a big pleasure and source of inspiration to work with such passionate people like Anisa and the rest of her team. Their products are well designed, have a great quality and true challenge for the photographer: exactly what we like:-).
The technical article on how we shoot these images can be found on our photographer’s blog: Shooting cosmetic brushes: simple tips to help dealing with chrome finish. Basically, for the first photo we did the composition of 2 separate shoots: one with and one without that horizontal handle with brushes. Such solution saved us some time on post-production, plus, gives one more benefit: a focus stacking. Read more how we did it.
PrimaBella is an innovative prescription neuromodulation device worn on the underside of the wrist to reduce nausea and vomiting symptoms during pregnancy.
I wish I would have this device when I was pregnant with my twins
Below are some examples of post-production in Photoshop, before and after.
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.
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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