GOLD LION
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
retouching job on a picture you are most proud of. I am talking about a picture you shot and retouched and maybe even digitally manip ect. Show us your work beyond the composition beyond the thirds rule what you can do with a 2.8 or wider opening.
Well I don't do too much manipulation as in digital manipulating, but I do like layers. Here I added smoke, several layers actually, darkening the rocks, and creating a unique color blend. Unfortunately this a adobe 1998 color profile, so the srgb setting on MM desaturate it. The second one was done outside, I just added a base white canvas, and some smoke and back lit glow. I do very simple stuff. I have some really crazy stuff but I don't post it on MM, only on my FB because its not model orientated.
NICKLES2DIMES wrote: retouching job on a picture you are most proud of. I am talking about a picture you shot and retouched and maybe even digitally manip ect. Show us your work beyond the composition beyond the thirds rule what you can do with a 2.8 or wider opening.
Got no F2.8 lenses... I guess I can't be a photographer!
Well I don't do too much manipulation as in digital manipulating, but I do like layers. Here I added smoke, several layers actually, darkening the rocks, and creating a unique color blend. Unfortunately this a adobe 1998 color profile, so the srgb setting on MM desaturate it. The second one was done outside, I just added a base white canvas, and some smoke and back lit glow. I do very simple stuff. I have some really crazy stuff but I don't post it on MM, only on my FB because its not model orientated.
GOLD LION
Posts: 304
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
I agree this is awesome.
and to be honest the other one steals the show for me because the place im at right now is the whole less is more feeling with my work.
GOLD LION
Posts: 304
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Tony this example you posted is that work. Thats what i was saying its like I know i shot this like this , but this is how i see it. It becomes a piece of your vision that the camera can't catch by itself. me and my work speak two different languages and the camera is the translator or the go between guy to get us all on the same page.
I did this yesterday. The images all were brighter to the left of the girl and I wanted to get the look reversed while keeping the image subdued. The color shift in the last panel was intentional. I call it "Loss". (It looks good on my calibrated monitor but may run a tad dark) Anyway...
Well I don't do too much manipulation as in digital manipulating, but I do like layers. Here I added smoke, several layers actually, darkening the rocks, and creating a unique color blend. Unfortunately this a adobe 1998 color profile, so the srgb setting on MM desaturate it. The second one was done outside, I just added a base white canvas, and some smoke and back lit glow. I do very simple stuff. I have some really crazy stuff but I don't post it on MM, only on my FB because its not model orientated.
These are great. I especially like the first one. That's a beautiful high key shot.
GOLD LION
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
rdallasPhotography wrote: I did this yesterday. The images all were brighter to the left of the girl and I wanted to get the look reversed while keeping the image subdued. The color shift in the last panel was intentional. I call it "Loss". (It looks good on my calibrated monitor but may run a tad dark) Anyway...
they came up fine on my monitor. but i know what you mean some people monitors are a little out dated and it would look darker. I like the feel of the images because you get a mood across to the viewer. not too many can do that, and i personally prefer this style than a flat feel images can have (shot a few images and it was disturbing how 2 dimensional the were just flat) I dig the whole set its a very cool story in those.
I like the soft feel of this one, and you didn't lose detail in the eyes and face doing it then setting it all off by the hardness of the story the chains and restraints a perfect blend here. I know she loved the work on this and looking at the un re-touched image you did what i had been trying to do for like a year . it wasn't until the beginning of this year that i stopped using one click actions on images (which just blurred the whole image) and actually started measuring the color reach and setting the lower opacity for my brush and lightly hitting the spots that brought the picture to life. My old work that i have saved on my 2nd drive has images where the eyes because they were brown and the eyebrows and anything close to skin tone range totally blurred. as i took my time and stopped rushing and getting frustrated at every comment that wasn't positive, it slowly came to me... zoom in get the pixels you want to get and when you zoom back out the feeling is great when you see you got the picture in check.
NICKLES2DIMES wrote: I like the soft feel of this one, and you didn't lose detail in the eyes and face doing it then setting it all off by the hardness of the story the chains and restraints a perfect blend here. I know she loved the work on this and looking at the un re-touched image you did what i had been trying to do for like a year . it wasn't until the beginning of this year that i stopped using one click actions on images (which just blurred the whole image) and actually started measuring the color reach and setting the lower opacity for my brush and lightly hitting the spots that brought the picture to life. My old work that i have saved on my 2nd drive has images where the eyes because they were brown and the eyebrows and anything close to skin tone range totally blurred. as i took my time and stopped rushing and getting frustrated at every comment that wasn't positive, it slowly came to me... zoom in get the pixels you want to get and when you zoom back out the feeling is great when you see you got the picture in check.
Thanks for the compliment. And I am right there with you- For a long time, my PS talents were pretty much limited to removing blemishes or one click fixes. In April I had to buy a new desktop, and at the same time picked up PS Elements 10 (replaced my v4). For what I do, it's really all I need. Compared to the other work posted here, I have a lonnnnnnng way to go in how much more I can learn about it.
^Love it, looks like its underwater. Very spacey and far out.
Yea I don't shoot with much. Just my camera and 50mm minolta lens. Very basic. Natural light, no reflector or lighting. I'm switching brands which is why I'm not investing in my camera at the moment.
Heres a sample of a before and after on another shot I did.
GOLD LION
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Joseph Peffer wrote: ^Love it, looks like its underwater. Very spacey and far out.
Yea I don't shoot with much. Just my camera and 50mm minolta lens. Very basic. Natural light, no reflector or lighting. I'm switching brands which is why I'm not investing in my camera at the moment.
Heres a sample of a before and after on another shot I did.
Dude if i could get shots like that to start with i don't think i would be doing post work. this is the best example of "get it right in camera first" the white balance is on point (another personal struggle of mine even to this day). I use a point and shoot so i feel you on the camera situation , I will upgrade and go pro but not before i can master the bridge camera i own right now a Fuji hs10 which is currently discontinued lol but i got my eye on an Olympus. I have been shooting both manual and auto for the last 5 shoots i have done and comparing the images to see where the auto function beats me in certain areas. Until i am completely happy with my knowledge
of lighting and composition I won't get a new camera.
Just did this about an hour ago. My first attempt at this style. I put up a before and after on my FB fan page linked below. To see the transformation from a RAW to this. I finished two versions in under an hour.
Currently my fav... Had to dodge out model's hair whisps. I cloned the right side of the strawberry into the center. Problem due to those ugly discolored dents straberries get from being tightly wrapped in the packaging. Of course that was the side of the strawberry facing my camera. I feel like it could be worked on more I posted it befrore realizing I wanted to do so. It immediately got a comment and listed so I just kept it up.
From the same shoot. I'm not a huge fan of selective color images but I thought I'd give it a try.
Joe Miglionico
Posts: 1,164
Worcester, Massachusetts, US
I like this one a lot. Maybe not my best ever, but a recent one. Nothing too fancy, but I should point out that the record player was not actually there at the shoot. I just thought it looked like she was listening to a record and so I added it later...
Dude if i could get shots like that to start with i don't think i would be doing post work. this is the best example of "get it right in camera first" the white balance is on point (another personal struggle of mine even to this day). I use a point and shoot so i feel you on the camera situation , I will upgrade and go pro but not before i can master the bridge camera i own right now a Fuji hs10 which is currently discontinued lol but i got my eye on an Olympus. I have been shooting both manual and auto for the last 5 shoots i have done and comparing the images to see where the auto function beats me in certain areas. Until i am completely happy with my knowledge
of lighting and composition I won't get a new camera.
Of course man thats the way to go. I started out with a 5mp Kodak easy share in 2005, than after leaving the mil, I went to a T2I, shot animals and landscapes, got the fundamentals and manual controls down, than went to sony. You have to know your basics. Some of the raws actually look great by themselves, but I would only use a straight raw on a shoot with MU, lighting and all that jazz.
I really dig this for 2 reasons one i am a sucker for white backgrounds , Steve Hurley the head shot photographer is my inspiration when i feel like my work is not doing as well as it could be doing i put on his tutorials and for me his way of talking about photography is my voice of reasoning. He uses all white backdrops. and second because the llama dominates your attention which is a bold move because there is nothing else to look at to take your attention away from the subject so you are basically putting it all out there for this shot and the viewers attention is focused so any small minor mistakes would look major in the shot. Outstanding job and not one mistake from where i am sitting.
GOLD LION
Posts: 304
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
MacLeod Designs wrote: heres a couple of my favs.
this is the level i am trying to get to. you got the masters in retouching not a lot of photographers do. crazy thing is the guitar images are what i was trying to capture in my portfolio as well with the model Myrta , even though i was happy with the results i felt they did not come out like the vision and your images are what i was shooting for. awesome work man i appreciate photographers like you who keep getting better and giving photographers like myself a shadow to walk in , Im trying to catch up though lol.
GOLD LION
Posts: 304
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Black Stallion Photo wrote:
Currently my fav... Had to dodge out model's hair whisps. I cloned the right side of the strawberry into the center. Problem due to those ugly discolored dents straberries get from being tightly wrapped in the packaging. Of course that was the side of the strawberry facing my camera. I feel like it could be worked on more I posted it befrore realizing I wanted to do so. It immediately got a comment and listed so I just kept it up.
From the same shoot. I'm not a huge fan of selective color images but I thought I'd give it a try.
Lol you know I don't think there is a photographer in this thread who can say they don't know what you mean. Lmao i can say honestly i have old images that i go back to and try to correct and the clone tool is not my friend by a long shot. i was doing a models eyes and after about an hour in the same spot i gave up trying to make the catch lights look better. i think you did an excellent job on the strawberry hell if you did not say anything i could not tell because strawberries come like that lol.
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