Tomorrow is TURKEY DAY!!!
I'm super excited about it.
I know this has nothing to do with Photography but tomorrow a lot of people will post pictures of their turkey dinner and it will be amazing. Yummm. Because of this reason I feel like I can't think about anything else than TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY! :)
Something I read about the other day is this article.
http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/11/26/google-serious-adding-raw-capability-android-camera/
I can't believe it. They are putting us out of business!! (Us photographers)
Read it and come back to me.
.......
Raw is what my professional camera's capability is. So if little smartphones have this capability I'll be out of business. :(
I know technology is getting better every day and normally I'd be happy about it but now since I became a professionals.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Lighting Tests
I had to take some shoots for two classes of mine.
Lighting test.
It's good if you do this because then you know what you will have to do when you actually shoot a person.
It will be to stressful when you actually do your lights when the model is already there.
So I took a friend of mine and used her as my model for the lighting tests.
I love to use one light. One big soft light.
Now I was able to see if I liked the lighting set up or not.
I moved the light around to see which set up I liked best.
I added lights and took lights away. For this next shot I added a Strip light.
The light stretched out evenly on her body. I thought it made the picture look a little flat so I moved it a little further back to get some shadows in her face.
Now she has some shadows on her face and it doesn't make it look flat anymore.
Lighting tests are important. Now I know which lighting I will use ones I start shooting the real thing.
Stay tuned.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Retouching
Retouching.
I recently retouched a couple of images in class and our instructor told us different approaches to do so.
I will tell you how to make an action that will retouches your picture for you.
First you go to actions and select 'New Action' name it retouching.
Now click the recording button. It will turn red once you click on it.
First what you do is 'duplicate the layer' twice (Mac command+ J)
The first one you will name Texture and the next one you will name blur.
The texture layer should be the one on top.
Turn the texture layer off. (click on the eye next to it)
Have your Blur layer selected and go to the bar on top. Filters-blur- Gaussian Blur OR surface blur, either one is fine, don't go to high in Gaussian blur you want to keep some texture on the face.
Now click on the texture layer
Go to Image (top bar)- apply image
Dialog Box
Layer: Blur Blending: (Play around to see which one looks best) Subtract
Scale: 2
Offset: 128
Click OK
Now above your layer are the blending modes choose : Linear light.
(Nothing will change when turning of the layer)
Go to the Blur layer now.
Stop the recording.
Now you want to retouch the picture, meaning use the patch tool to get rid of pimples and spots.
After your done click the recording button again.
Go to Layer (on top bar) New- Layer
Name it: Dodge&Burn
Mode: Overlay
check the box which says Fill with 50% grey
Drag layer on top of the texture layer.
Later click on blur layer again. Click Stop on action.
Now if you want to get a message when you apply the gaussian blur, during this action you have to go to the menu (corner right from action) -insert stop.
when your done click Save action as.
Now you are done and you can use this for any picture.
Stay tuned.
Before:
I recently retouched a couple of images in class and our instructor told us different approaches to do so.
I will tell you how to make an action that will retouches your picture for you.
First you go to actions and select 'New Action' name it retouching.
Now click the recording button. It will turn red once you click on it.
First what you do is 'duplicate the layer' twice (Mac command+ J)
The first one you will name Texture and the next one you will name blur.
The texture layer should be the one on top.
Turn the texture layer off. (click on the eye next to it)
Have your Blur layer selected and go to the bar on top. Filters-blur- Gaussian Blur OR surface blur, either one is fine, don't go to high in Gaussian blur you want to keep some texture on the face.
Now click on the texture layer
Go to Image (top bar)- apply image
Dialog Box
Layer: Blur Blending: (Play around to see which one looks best) Subtract
Scale: 2
Offset: 128
Click OK
Now above your layer are the blending modes choose : Linear light.
(Nothing will change when turning of the layer)
Go to the Blur layer now.
Stop the recording.
Now you want to retouch the picture, meaning use the patch tool to get rid of pimples and spots.
After your done click the recording button again.
Go to Layer (on top bar) New- Layer
Name it: Dodge&Burn
Mode: Overlay
check the box which says Fill with 50% grey
Drag layer on top of the texture layer.
Later click on blur layer again. Click Stop on action.
Now if you want to get a message when you apply the gaussian blur, during this action you have to go to the menu (corner right from action) -insert stop.
when your done click Save action as.
Now you are done and you can use this for any picture.
Stay tuned.
Before:
After:
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Photoshop CC
So like I said, I have been using Photoshop CC for awhile now. I still love it. You know when you have that one shot and you really like it but its just a little bit blurry? Everybody tells you to toss it but you really like it.now you can save it.
There is an option now where you can fix it. It's called Shake reduction
You open the picture in Photoshop and when you click on Shake reduction It will show you a dialog box where you can click on the spot that is blurry and it will analyze it. Once it is done it will fix "the problem" and your blurry picture is not blurry anymore.
Isn't this great? This is one thing I really like but there are so many more things that are new and I don't even know what they were all about yet. I will have yo find out and I will write about it. I have a picture that I fixed with Shake reduction I will upload it once I get home.
Stay tuned.
Like I said here is the picture before and after :)
There is an option now where you can fix it. It's called Shake reduction
You open the picture in Photoshop and when you click on Shake reduction It will show you a dialog box where you can click on the spot that is blurry and it will analyze it. Once it is done it will fix "the problem" and your blurry picture is not blurry anymore.
Isn't this great? This is one thing I really like but there are so many more things that are new and I don't even know what they were all about yet. I will have yo find out and I will write about it. I have a picture that I fixed with Shake reduction I will upload it once I get home.
Stay tuned.
Like I said here is the picture before and after :)
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