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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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:-)
This is the announcement of our next LIVE Masterclass. More details please find at Alex Koloskov’s blog.
LIVE Masterclass will be completely free, but recorded video will cost $49. Video will include bonus; a retouching for the watch.
Below is the image before and after post-production. Similar photo we will do on our Masterclass.
Join us Sunday 24 of October 2010, 4PM Eastern time. The link to LIVE broadcast is on AKELstudio main page, top menu: AKELstudio LIVE!Youhave to have an account to get there, member login is on top of the page.
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.
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:
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.
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!
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 bonuslinks below.
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