I have been on a bit of a quest to get my post work better and to learn to re-touch portraits. So I've taken some time out to read what I can and to practise. The thing is once to get on the pro re-touching angle everything starts to make sense. No more bluring of skin, no patching and infact no harm to pixels at all.
Lets look at it this way, we spend a fortune on cameras that can capture the smallest detail, along with the sharpest lenses. We shoot in raw (well at least we should) and then it comes to making some modifications to the image in photoshop and if we read some of even the best photoshop gurus, we get started with patch tools, clone tools etc and of course the blur tool to "smooth the skin" What we are doing is damaging pixels, you might not know it at first, but I can bet if you get an image printed large, and I do from time to time, you will notice the damage.
Recomendation for you, go and read works from Gry Garness Better still go any buy her retouching for CS4, its so worth the money at £24. Learn to re-touch with simpathy.
Beleve me, photoshop is so much better when No Pixels where harmed.
Mart
Monday 7 December 2009
Monday 27 July 2009
Strobist meet
I had a great time hosting the Wirral Strobist meet again. A smaller turn out this time, possibly due to it being mid week. It did give me a good chance to work one to one with a couple of great and enthusiastic photographers. Daz and Neil have realy embraced the strobist idea, and I took the chance to grab a couple of quick portraits of them.
The weather behaved and a good time was had by all.
A great mixture of modifiers, brollies, grids and softboxes used and also a play at high speed syncing with pocket wizzards. Got to organise the next one now :-)
Mart
The weather behaved and a good time was had by all.
A great mixture of modifiers, brollies, grids and softboxes used and also a play at high speed syncing with pocket wizzards. Got to organise the next one now :-)
Mart
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Carture one
I recently downloaded the trial of Capture one. I have to say that I'm impressed with the workflow and the resultant images that it gives. I have been using bridge to work on my raw files but it has some limitations. Lightroom works well but the thing that really gets me with Capture one is the tethered option. I can tether my D700 straight into it and that's a great benefit. Nikon's camera control does what it says but then that's another bit of software to buy.
Comparing the pricing means that with the tethered option Capture one is actually making sense.
More examples and thoughts to come.
Mart.
Comparing the pricing means that with the tethered option Capture one is actually making sense.
More examples and thoughts to come.
Mart.
Sunday 21 June 2009
Sunset
Sunday 14 June 2009
Something different
Thursday 11 June 2009
Masks we wear part 3
Wednesday 10 June 2009
The masks we wear part2
Ok so I have been on about this project for a while. Its a personal thing for me and essentialy its about the ballance of what we do. I have to be a businessman, artist, IT guy and most of all I have to be there for family. It can be a stuggle some times. This is just a quick shot of part of the series, hope you like,
Mart
Mart
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