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What would you like me to cover in the new DVD?
Thanks for the referral to Bruce's page.....Regarding the coming DVD...Sorry to see there is no indepth sharpening topic, can't imagine all over here on MM know the "proper" way how,when and where to use it. Just my 2cts as I am still struggling with it...  Dec 03 12 04:19 am Link richy01 wrote: Well, there are what some refer to as three stages of sharpening. Dec 03 12 08:26 am Link I would like for you to put in a sample image that you personally found to be one of your hardest edits, complete with your own remarks/comments layer on how you would solve the nightmare on your screen. How about an autobiography portfilio on your way to becoming a retoucher with real examples of your struggle. That could help some individuals on their struggles by being able to relate with their own editing work levels. Dec 03 12 11:16 am Link Sentimental-SINtimental wrote: I will work on images that are for the magazine and there will be challenges as well as me explaining the thinking process. There will be revisions from the client so who knows what kind of challenges await. I will try to make it as real world experience as I can. Dec 03 12 12:11 pm Link IMHO - good complimenting set to first dvd: Color wheel (even simplified) + correction of skin tones. Basics of hair retouching. Also it would be quite interesting to see your D&B flow on african model Dec 03 12 02:03 pm Link Sergei Rodionov wrote: As I compliment, yes sure. Why not. It would be almost like an update. Sergei Rodionov wrote: Color Wheel, yes. Skin tones no. But I'm thinking of covering it in a separate video, though. Sergei Rodionov wrote: I think Natalia covered that in her DVD, no? Sergei Rodionov wrote: I did show one example in the D&B DVD that was done on African model, but ultimately D&B works on anything the same. Why African model interest you so much, having trouble with it? Dec 03 12 03:34 pm Link I'd like to see what goes into the kind of coloration that Pascal Dangin does for Annie L or someone similar. In other words, custom colorization or maybe stylized colorization. (?) Dec 03 12 05:04 pm Link I guess I can't please everybody, and since I'm already recording, some of the requests will have to wait for another time. Thank you for the feedback everyone. I appreciate it. I just wish somebody would actually give feedback on what is recorded already.  Dec 03 12 05:44 pm Link I love your vidoes..I cant wait for the rest of them Dec 03 12 06:31 pm Link Ca-retouching wrote: Thank you. Dec 03 12 06:39 pm Link Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: version 2.0 Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: Even better! I would love to see more good retouching instructional materials on retouching non fashion stuff, like storytelling & etc. Its very very interesting subject for me. Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: smashing Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: Sergei Rodionov wrote: I think Natalia covered that in her DVD, no? not really.. But i might be wrong, it might be at the section where i was loosing will to live.. While i love Natalia's work and i watched whole thing - she did this in monotonous tone (she says that Vitaly asked her to do it like that, so its not her fault, actually), there are sections of her material that i had to just put matches in my eyes to not fall asleep, despite how good material is. Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: Sergei Rodionov wrote: I did show one example in the D&B DVD that was done on African model, but ultimately D&B works on anything the same. Why African model interest you so much, having trouble with it? yup.. Shot girls last Saturday.. I rarely shoot anyone but caucasians (no racial thing there, it just that most of african americans do tend to shoot with photographers from same group, oddly - it doesnt work same way for caucasians). And part of it was to do some headshots for makeup artists.. While i have no problem with body shots, as soon as it gets to pure faces it just baffles me. I guess i didnt get yet to portion of your first DVD ( i am rationing this through past month and half) where you been dealing with that example. Dec 03 12 09:18 pm Link Sergei Rodionov wrote: So this time I plan to work on a cyclist, athlete kind of images. There are 13 raw files and the client pick four for the Magazine. One for Cover and rest in the spread. So I will be working on that. Different techniques and there will be revisions from the client I'm sure. Things like replace the sky, make the stadium longer, change the color of the shirt, remove the logo on the floor, rebuild the logo on the bike etc. Sergei Rodionov wrote: Well this DVD is more like three in one. But I plant to make a few bonus videos for YouTube. Sergei Rodionov wrote: I think it's in the CHAPTER FOUR > 4 - Dark skin model workflow analysis Sergei Rodionov wrote: The principle is exactly the same as working on a Caucasian models. Dec 03 12 09:37 pm Link Thank you for suggestion Dec 04 12 08:56 am Link Sentimental-SINtimental wrote: I took this suggestion to hearth and I just recorded two videos one is 40 min and the other is like 30 min where I took a trip down the Memory Lane of some first images I did and I reverse engineering them layer by layer explaining what was my thinking process back than. And I managed to incorporate that into the whole Bit Depth scheme. So thank you for the suggestion, it was a fun trip back to old times. Haven't looked at those images in two, two and a half years. It was fun for me as well to see my old school retouching. lol Dec 04 12 06:11 pm Link Hi there! I am a fan I would be very much interested in studio fashion photography techniques and processing- but whole body shots and the style fashion magazines use. As in this pic. http://blog.souslesetoiles.net/?p=82 Also techniques so as to capture moving poses as the one above. Best Regards M* Dec 05 12 12:37 am Link MaLLiL Kapoyannis wrote: Thank you! Dec 05 12 07:55 am Link hi Kruno, people wants tips and tricks about carving techniques!!! Dec 05 12 08:13 am Link Rolando Garcia wrote: Remember the post I made earlier? Dec 05 12 08:38 am Link In the end - just tell us when its ready  Dec 06 12 09:45 am Link Sergei Rodionov wrote: Hehehe. Will do. Dec 06 12 12:37 pm Link Sergei Rodionov wrote: tension building... Dec 07 12 07:29 am Link richy01 wrote: Originally I thought I could make it by than, but now it looks I have bitten more than I can chew sort of speak. Will need a bit more time, but I will try to have a some nice Xmasgift for you guys. Dec 07 12 11:39 am Link Perhaps I have not done enough research and this is off topic for the video piece, but it would be awesome to create a channel of sorts that allows for assignments (similar to your client's mark-up), and then get an evaluation over the course of say a 90 day period. You have always provided great feedback and insight-would be awesome for you Kruno! Dec 08 12 05:19 pm Link Oliver Retouch wrote: What do you mean? Can you explain it a bit more in depth, please? Dec 08 12 05:44 pm Link I guess Oliver means a specific place...here on MM or maybe Youtube..where you or anyone else can post assignments which can be edited by others. When finished the poster can give his/her comments on the edited image... Dec 09 12 12:01 am Link richy01 wrote: Well, that's a big obligation. I'm not against it but at the moment I don't think I would have the time to manage everything, not alone at least. Maybe after the DVD is out than I will have more time and I'm sure something can be arranged. Maybe some webinars or Google Hangout or something. Dec 09 12 12:04 am Link Would love the Live webinars as I emailed you...huge possibilities and a lot of benefits for presenter as well as the attendees. When time allows you, it would be a great project for 2013 Dec 09 12 12:32 am Link richy01 wrote: Agreed. Dec 09 12 12:33 am Link One thing I'd like to see is how to get more done in less time. My average time retouching a photo is about three hours. There are professional retouchers on MM who do what I do (and do it better) for $20-$25 per photo, and I doubt they spend three hours per photo doing it. (Btw, my portfolio is way out of date. The first approach to Photoshop that I learned was heavy on the Gaussian blur. I'm working on a portfolio update - moving update candidates into a protected folder - but what's in my portfolio now is from my Gaussian Era.) Thanks... Mar 13 13 12:19 am Link Maybe this gonna sound silly, but a list of general guidelines for every (or most) kind of work that a retoucher gonna find through his career. Or, wait, I came across a better way than that and that could teach how to catch the fish : guidelines to correctly define what clients need (even without them knowing that) depending of the photography you work with. example: step 1: defining who the hero/main subject is step 2: defining whats the true intent of the picture step 3: searching for problems with the expression of 1 and 2 in the picture(composition, etc) step 4: getting an idea about the possible options you have to fix 3 step 5: choosing the right one step 6: check related work on google for more guidelines .... step N. + maybe some examples from different types of photography (fashion, beauty, sports, product, glamour, portraits, lifestyle, etc) Something that will help new retouchers to have the right mindset from the beginning and not just give a lot of powerful tools and not the guidelines of when to use them (specially in the case when the guys havent assisted any art class in their lifes or never came across an artistic activity), this could shorten the learning curve and shorten the period of excessive experimentation and odd retouching resoults like one do when is starting to learn this stuff Mar 13 13 01:04 am Link I’ve hesitated for several months to list these things, because I don’t know how many others would be interested in them. Some of these are kinda oddball situations, but I’m gonna toss them out there anyway. In a year and a half of using Photoshop, I feel I’ve become fairly competent (if not the fastest) in the “standard” techniques – the things I do with every photo. But sometimes I come across off-the-wall problems that I just don’t know how to solve. They seem to come in clusters. Last September and the past few weeks were the peaks for these types of issues. Here are some examples. - A model with a scab the diameter of a quarter on her right knee. (For those not in the US, that’s a little over 25mm.) The model had to be turned to her left, because that’s where the sunlight was bouncing off a third-floor window behind me. I finally got rid of it with the clone stamp on the fifth or sixth attempt – but maybe there’s a better way? - Serious tanlines. I found 2-3 techniques in the forums and on the Internet, but they didn’t work for me in this case. - Stretch marks. I found the stretch marks to be a series of alternating light and dark lines (highlights and shadows), mostly about 1-3 pixels wide. Dodging the dark lines and burning the light lines for about three hours made them much less prominent, but I haven’t been able to make them completely go away. - Splotchy skin. (The client said it’s from delivering a baby a few months earlier.) Nothing I’ve tried has worked with this. Actually I’ve encountered this twice in the past year. More difficult than the stretch marks because it covers a larger area, and there’s no pattern to the changes in tonality. - Local color castes. Reddish ones on a model’s arm and shoulder and, in other photos of other models, in various areas. A golden caste in the shadow under a model’s chin. A blue caste on a model wearing a shiny blue gown near a river. I’ve been able to reduce the castes, primarily by desaturating, but they’re still there. If I desaturate past a certain point, they begin to turn gray. - Worst of all has been a filthy studio floor – a smooth and somewhat glossy surface (not sure what it is – about 12x20 feet, probably too large to be Plexiglass) laid down and cemented to a concrete floor at the base of a 12-foot cyc wall) and painted white. The cyc wall was built (and the wall and floor painted) in February of last year. By June it was covered with scuff marks from high heels, props and furniture being moved around, etc. (There are 22 photographers who shoot regularly at this studio). By June I was spending more time retouching the floor than the models. I would take out the darkest of the marks with the healing brush or clone stamp, then lay down a heavy Gaussian blur over the floor. That worked fine, except that I couldn’t use the blur in or near shadows, the model’s feet and legs, chair legs, etc. In September I spent six hours retouching a small area of the floor in one photo and got it to a point where it was almost acceptable. But the techniques I was using (which included Gaussian blur) couldn’t be used in most areaz of the floor. Yeah, I know, paint the floor. It’s a rental studio. It was finally painted, and now the issues are coming back. Mar 13 13 11:56 am Link Camerosity wrote: Thought I read that kruno was recording his new video already so you might be too late. If you are, here's what i'd do in those cases: Camerosity wrote: gotta rebuild it if it's in profile, as i suspect. Camerosity wrote: hard to say if we don't know what you've tried. Camerosity wrote: frequency separation, then clone nice skin over the stretch marks on the high frequency layer. If they're deep and wide, also paint over them on the low frequency layer. Camerosity wrote: frequency separation, Camerosity wrote: Amy dresser's webcast spends a lot of time on this. high-feathered lasso on the area, then a curves layer to minimize the color cast. She does dozens of curves layers on an image this way. Camerosity wrote: get permission from the studio manager to paint it more frequently? "hey, i'm gonna paint the scuff-floor. let me know how much time to block out" Mar 13 13 03:08 pm Link I would like to see skin retouching to fix 'peach fuzz' and removing/fixing chunks of hair on the hair line, side and on shoulders. I've seen all 3 dvds and the models used had hair pulled back tight so there was no issues with fixing chunks of unwanted hair along with no problems with peach fuzz. Those 2 topics I would like to see covered which I struggle with. Mar 13 13 08:02 pm Link Unfortunately, I am already well into recording it so I can't change planes in any huge manner but feedback is always welcomed and it gives me inspiration for new ideas. Some of the stuff will be included and some won't at least not this time. Alejandro Crespo wrote: Well, I'm trying to do the same thing only with a bit different approach. But ultimately I'm trying to provide information that is going to help people understand better why and not just the how. That way they can act more independently and make decisions for themselves. Camerosity wrote: There isn't a way I can show every possible problem out there, that is why teaching and learning principles is something I'm more focused on than what most tutorials do and that is teach techniques only. IF you know the principle behind the technique than you can modify it and adapt to any new situation. If you only know the technique itself and don't understand the underlaying principle than you are always limited in your ability to apply it and adapt. And you are always dependent on the person who show you a specific technique for a specific situation. A good teacher should teach both and a good student should want to learn both. Mask Photo wrote: Yes, you are quite right, been explaining that trough much of this whole thread. Hehe. zurkzees wrote: That is actually relatively specialized technique. I'm sure we covered it multiple times here on MM forums. There is a very simple and old thread that touches on this topic, not sure if you have seen it or if that is what you mean, though. Mar 14 13 03:26 am Link WOW thanks for the response and link! Now back to trudging with clumps of hair retouching. Mar 14 13 06:31 am Link Frank Sanders wrote: +1 Regards M* Mar 29 13 01:25 pm Link So Kruno... how long we need to wait for your new puppy?!? :-D Oh and pls don't forget to give us a shout about your next Youtube video concerning color skin tones for fashion photography ;-) Thx Marco Mar 29 13 03:41 pm Link MorittuPhotoGraphy wrote: Well, you know what they say; A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. MorittuPhotoGraphy wrote: Will post that soon as well, Marco. If you are subscribed to my youtube channel you should get notified. Activate notification by mail in youtube subscription options, just in case. Mar 29 13 07:57 pm Link Krunoslav-Stifter wrote: Just activated. thx for suggestion and for being always fast with your replies and sharing all those tips. Mar 30 13 03:33 am Link Hello Kruno I cant wait for the next release, I would like to learn about the colour adjustment such as selective colours, like how to add a punch to the photo by colour adjusting and what ways you use to determine a suitable colour sorry im bad at explaining, I hope you understand me.May 05 13 03:45 pm Link |
