You may or may not have made it to my presentation at the NECCC 2010 conference in Amherst. The presentation titled as this post’s title focused on a workflow to produce plausible and pleasing presentations of model and portraiture photography. The NECCC Speaker Notes contains a 4-page write up of the presentation, but due to space limitations much of the content and many of the photographs and other images had to be eliminated. [Read more...]
Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend – Part III Retouching the Portrait
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Let’s start by viewing a short video, all the way to the end. Click on the following link and watch the video before moving on to the section that follows.
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Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend – Part II Smart Shoot
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Smart Shoot
In the excitement of the shoot and technical pressures, one of the most important steps gets the short shrift: White Balance Shot. It is so easy to do and it saves so much time later on, I cannot overemphasize its importance; especially with the availability of great tools at very affordable prices. [Read more...]
Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend – Part I Glamor Photography
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Photoshop offers an exceedingly powerful tool to photographers. It is up to us to use or abuse it; keep it within bounds or go over the top. The fact that it allows us to do so does not mean that we should make every model’s neck 4 inches longer, eyes reminiscent of Japanese comic strips, and their skin that looks more like electrically charged plasma devoid of texture. This series will explore the process for producing pleasing, plausible portrait photography of models, family, and friends. At the same time, we must not give in to the “power of the dark side” and make impressionable youngsters envy impossibly formed models in our photographs. [Read more...]
Munki See, Munki Do: Display Calibration
July 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
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I am amazed that many photographers, far too many of them work on a monitor with no calibration, no profiling and get surprised when they do not achieve the expected colors from their prints. I have made quite a few presentations on digital workflow, and have been preaching the importance of color management starting with the display monitor calibration and profiling. The importance of a calibrated and properly profiled display monitor cannot be overemphasized. It is a must, period. The rest of the color-manged workflow depends on it.
Photoshop Is a Girl's Best Friend Expanded Notes are available.
