HOW TO SHOOT AN ASSIGNMENT
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WHAT IF YOU ARE JUST NOT FEELING CREATIVE?
How to create when you're just not 'feeling it'. Hey. It happens. To all creatives. More than you think. But that is simply resistance kicking your karma. Dudes and dudettes. We gotta move fast forward and find ways to get out of that slump before resistance wins....
SHARPENING AND REDUCING NOISE IN PHOTOSHOP
SHARPENING AND REDUCING NOISE IN PHOTOSHOP There are many techniques. Try these on for your work. Perhaps you like them, maybe you don't. The important thing is to be in control of your image from exposure to presentation....
THE POWER OF AN IDEA (W PETER MCKINNON)
THE POWER OF AN IDEA It doesn't have to be big. It doesn't have to be great. It doesn't even have to be all that interesting... at first. It has to inspire you to get off the gluteous maximus and stretch your mind into creating something. Anything. Creating is...
A GREAT TRIPOD FOR UNDER $100 (VIDEO)
FROM D4 DARIUS This bad boy goes to 60+ inches high. Sturdy leg design means it is quite stable. AAAAANNNDDDD... it has a fluid head for smooth panning and tilting. It would certainly work well for stills, BUT it does not have a portrait camera position. No verticle...
A CHECKLIST FOR MAKING IMAGES
I have always used checklists. Because there was a time I didn't. And I know what happened on many of those shoots. (Like having to drive 50 miles back to a desert location to get the Polaroid back, and extra tripod left under a tree at the shoot.) Bam - the checklist...
CONTROLLING CONTRAST
Contrast control is one of the most important aspects of post-processing. Too much and we lose detail, not enough and we lose the 'pop' we wished we had in our images. Controlling contrast is one of the number one things you can master in the presentation of your...
HOW TO USE FREQUENCY SEPARATION AND FREE ACTION
Frequency separation is not just for skin tones. You can use it for metal, shiny surfaces, chocolate, and many other surfaces prone to hard to retouch blemishes. This tutorial comes with a free action to make the set up much easier....
Cleaning Up an Image: and Free Freq Separation Action
This technique is very popular among portrait and fashion photographers. Here is another use of this technique to clean up metal, wood, chocolate and other difficult surfaces we all have to shoot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeTIcm4vQIw
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: THE LIST
I was asked if there was some sort of list of things I look at or think about before I click the shutter? There is. I used to have a checklist that included "was the film loaded correctly" and "are the dark slides clean" and such. We don't do that anymore,...
Four Cool Lightroom Techniques To Save You Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSo_DuGC_a0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXb7genURV0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZc0ISalAbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRkk4E0oGY0
An Important Video for You: What Does a “Portfolio Showing” Look Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy16XA-QNcc
NIK Picked Up by DXO… New Version Soon
Be notified when new version is released. We were told it would be free for the first version anyway.