Make Light Real

Neil December 4th, 2008

Following in the footsteps of my retouching tutorials:

• Understanding the suggestive power of darkness
• Eye of the muse : photoshop retouching deconstructed

I know these are written to a more abstract level and so today I’d like to provide a more hands-on experience and so I have posted this L*A*B* colorspace photoshop file for you to download.  There are eleven layers in this file, from the starting image, on up through the finished look.

Let’s dig in

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Neil November 21st, 2008

If you shot this image – would you find something in it?

Photo Courtesy of Shane Snyder photojournalist

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Neil November 16th, 2008

Soft lighting – it’s not an easy ideal to achieve

Head to toe – full sized window – incandescent lamp – all included in the frame!

Is this a lighting problem that would make your head spin, or cringe away and avoid another approach because you feel you don’t have the gear? Read on, you may be stopping before you start!

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Neil November 15th, 2008

Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop – PSDTUTS

May 27th in Effects by Fabio

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Neil November 12th, 2008

his post is in the Thinking Big series combined with a couple other techniques:

• Thinking Big: outside the music hall
• Lighting a HUGE space – for anything that may happen
• + Light Control: turn the sky from white to blue
• + Balancing the Sun with flash – Crosslighting

Equals how to cross light a mountain!

One of the repetitive questions I get from people are – why such a big flash – and why take it all over with you? I suppose it would be like asking someone who works online the whole time why they use a broadband internet connection (http://www.o2.co.uk/broadband/mobile/), for them the answer is pretty obvious. And it is for me too, it just makes so many more options available.

Quite frankly – this is EXACTLY why!

In my lighting case that I loaded onto the plane in Rochester New York was:

• 1 Alien Bee 800 Monoblock flash unit
• 1 Paul C. Buff Vagabond portable power unit and power cord
• 1 Black Impact Air Cusioned light stand height 230cm (model #SLS-LS8A)
• 1 Pocketwizard reciever
• Paul C Buff 11 inch parabolic reflector

Here’s one of the resulting peak moment shots that I try to reach for in my wedding photojournalism. The lighting case was loaded in the helicopter’s coffin gear carrier for the trip up the mountain and across the island. But a large mono-light wasn’t all I had in my arsenal…

Of course I want to cover the whole event with variety as well as style so get past the jump and let’s talk details…

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Neil November 11th, 2008

Signalnoise.com | The art of James White » Signalnoise tutorial: The O series

I have had many requests for tutorials over the past months, but given that they are quite time-consuming to create I have stayed away from them to continue with my poster designs and freelance work.

Last week I posted a few images entitled The O Series.  The process behind the images is fairly simple and I thought it would make for a good first tutorial post. There is nothing advanced here, and all you will need is a basic knowledge of the layers palette, blending modes and masks.

I enjoyed this tutorial as an exercise in creating a lighted shape without shape or light.

As a raw exercise it’s a beautiful way to stretch your conceptual powers.

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Neil October 29th, 2008

Here’s our starter image for this discussion:

here’s our finished image for this discussion:

Now you’re right that’s not the EXACT same image, but there’s just a moment’s difference – I couldn’t find the un-retouched version.

I did find a smaller resolution version – again the point of contention is the vanishing point in the composition.  You may compose this while you’re shooting – and it may be proper as you’re composing the environmental elements in your image – but what is the compelling ‘moment’ of the image?

His EYES!

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Neil September 16th, 2008

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View their DVD trailer here!

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DVD with over 3 hours of jam packed content from Bruce and Maura.

Includes:

1. Lighting and Speedlite Techniques : aka Bruce’s AVAILABLE MAGIC Tricks!
2. Cinematic Composition for Capture
3. Artistic Application of Textures in PSD
4. Speedy Album Production Tips and Elegant Book Design Concepts
5. Painter X Demo for Portrait Photographers
6. Slideshow of iDC Portraiture and Wedding Imagery
7. Slideshow of Maura’s final 30 minute paintings from the tour

Buy your copy today

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Neil September 3rd, 2008

Photoshop Insider » Getting That Cool Gritty Look Right in Camera Raw and Photoshop or Lightroom

Read the above full explanation, and start with these settings:

• Fill Light = 100%
• Blacks = Test this one to taste: 10-100%
• Contrast = 50-100%
• Clarity = 100%
• Vibrance = 50-100%
• Recovery = 0-100%
• Saturation = -81% rely on your vibrance to color the image and desaturate to get the metallic look.

Download the Photoshop Lightroom Grunge Preset download

Before image on the left.  Below, Dark Descent lighting overlays applied to the effect.

Have fun with the preset!

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Neil August 23rd, 2008

John Reuter shows us a basic screen-cast exploring Photoshop documents layer blending options.  As you’re learning to apply textures, or vignettes to an image for artistic or tonal effects – you should understand these options intuitively.  The best way to learn after watching this image would be to work over a couple images and utilize these different techniques to modify different portions of the tonal range.  Work on targeting the highlights, mid-tones and shadows independently as you build up your awareness and control in photoshop.

If you don’t have any files to use to mix together download one from our Free Stuff Category, or try this one.

YouTube – Layer Styles Blending with John Reuter

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