Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Why Do You Shoot Street Photography?

Why Do You Shoot Street Photography?


Why?


When I was in Korea earlier this year, my friend and fellow street photographer David Kim shared a TED talk with me titled: “How great leaders inspire action.” David holds a leadership position at his job, and he told me that this talk changed the way how he lead others and how he leads his own life. Needless to say, I was fascinated by the talk and after watching it – it changed my life.


The Golden Circle: Focusing on the “Why” not the “What” or “How”




So how does this concept of the “golden circle” apply to street photographers?

A shift in my street photography & the “3 Why Principle”

My interest in “sociological street photography”




Saturday, October 27, 2012

What is Conceptual Photography?

What is Conceptual Photography?




What is Conceptual Photography? (part 1)

What is Conceptual Photography? (part 2)

What is Conceptual Photography? (part 3)



Rule of Thirds - Punctum - Positive and Negative space -
Better Photographic Composition - Beyond the Rule of Thirds



How to Make Your Ideas Remarkable- Episode 220 from Phlearn on Vimeo

How to Make Your Ideas Remarkable- Episode 220 from Phlearn on Vimeo.

How to Make Your Ideas Remarkable


Best Conceptual Photography & Digital Manipulation & Tutorials

Conceptual photo, manipulation and digital art - pin

Conceptual Photography and Photo Manipulations by Aorta

Conceptual Photo-manipulations

Roland Barthes on photography - pdf


George Powell Photography - Exploring The Photographic Aesthetic
Studium and Punctum



Roland Barthes
EXTRACTS FROM CAMERA LUCIDA
From The Photography Reader

studium and punctum




fromacolor adobe


Pre-Production

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Nikon D7000 vs Nikon D600 - High ISO/Low Light Review

Nikon D7000 vs Nikon D600 - High ISO/Low Light




Nikon D600 In-Depth Review



Nikon D7000 vs Nikon D600 - High ISO/Low Light Video Tests and Review





Full Frame Sensors vs Crop Sensor Cameras Explained by Karl Taylor!



Sunday, October 7, 2012

File Management - Catalog Strategies

File Management - Catalog Strategies BEST PRACTICES File Management Overview File Naming Catalog Strategies Directory Structure Catalog Software Basics dpbestflow.org

LightRoom Creative Color Processing

LightRoom Creative Color Processing


Creative Color Processing (Part 1/3 – White Balance)

It is often said that photography is a visual language. Through our photographs we tell stories, share experiences, and communicate emotions. Aside from journalism, where faithful captures are important for ethics reasons, photography is often about creatively interpreting a scene, rather than simply recording what is in front of the lens...

Creative Color Processing (Part 2/3 – Split Toning)


This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on creative color effects using Lightroom 4. In Part 1 of the series, I discussed shifting White Balance either warmer or cooler for creative effect. In this article I will explain Split Toning, and also give you some ideas for using creative white balance and split toning together for even more color control.

Pro Photographer Editing Workflow (TIPS)


Add Interest to your Background with Colored Gels

Create Amazing Sunsets with Lightroom’s Split Toning Tool

Black and White Conversion – 3 Options in Adobe Lightroom

Split Toning in Photoshop

5 Tips for a Faster Lightroom Workflow

Enhancing Blue Skies in Lightroom Make a Develop Preset

How to Create Lightroom Presets


5 Top Tips for Lightroom Develop Presets




Post Produce Up to 15x Faster - Introducing the Lightroom 4 Workflow System




Six Ways to Speed Up Lightroom

How to shoot Black Objects on Black Backgrounds


Delete Images?? NEVER!!

Deleting is Good for You!


Lightroom 4 workflow tips Part 1

Lightroom 4 workflow tips Part 2

Removing Partial Color from a Photo: Photoshop Techniques





More Flexible Lightroom to Photoshop Editing




Saturday, October 6, 2012

Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High Resolution Images D800

Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High Resolution Images D800


It seems that the continuous increase of megapixels in our digital cameras is inevitable. Year after year, camera sensors are getting better, image resolution is increasing and file sizes are getting bigger. If just several years ago 10 megapixels was plenty for a DSLR, that number has grown way higher lately, thanks to such fine tools as the Nikon D800. This increase of resolution and file sizes clearly puts a load on our quickly aging computers as well. Larger files require more storage and post-processing images in Lightroom and Photoshop is taking longer due to insufficient computing power and resources, dramatically slowing down our photography workflow process... Read more

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Lightroom Portrait Editing: Before and After

Lightroom Portrait Editing: Before and After



In this article, I will show you an example of how I process portraits (before and after) and what my portrait editing workflow is like. Many of our readers ask how I post-process my images for my wedding blog and I decided to put together a quick example. Obviously, every image is different, so while some photos take very little of my time in Lightroom, others might take a while to process in Lightroom and Photoshop. This image in particular is from our recent “Bridesmaids Photoshoot“, a collaborative effort by many talented individuals in Colorado.

For any portrait work, it is best to shoot RAW. First, because the skin tone is very important and any white balance issues can be quickly taken care of in post-processing and second, because

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Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High Resolution Images



DIGITAL PHOTO EDITING WORKFLOW


Mastering Lightroom: Basic Post-Processing Workflow


6 Steps to Edit and Deliver Wedding Photographs in One Day



55 Photo editing tips and tricks to live by


Sharpen photos the smart way: demystifying Photoshop’s image-sharpening tools









Getting Started With Adobe Lightroom: The Photo General Workflow



 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching with Chris Orwig

Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching with Chris Orwig

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In Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching, professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his extensive experience with Photoshop to focus on the specific tools every photographer needs to adjust images and keep them looking genuine. This course explores this program's deep resources for portrait retouching and inspires photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Exercise files are included with the course.










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Monday, October 1, 2012

Mastering Lightroom: How to Manage Presets

Mastering Lightroom: How to Manage Presets

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One of the biggest advantages Lightroom offers over some other RAW converters, such as Camera RAW found in Adobe Photoshop environment, is speed and flexibility while working with tens, hundreds and even thousands of photographs at a time. However, it wouldn’t be quite as fast if we didn’t have a way of applying a set of our own settings to any amount of images we choose with a single click. For this, Photoshop offers us Actions and Batch processing. Lightroom, in turn, gives us Presets.

In this tutorial...

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Photoshop or Lightroom ideas, links, etc. - Pinterest

Mastering Lightroom: How To Use the Basic Panel

Lightroom has many features that can easily confuse those who are new to it. While the program offers plenty of different editing opportunities, in order to achieve the best results and user experience, it is important to understand the very basics of Lightroom. In the series of upcoming short articles, I will try to explain each of the most important Panels in Lightroom, so that in the end, you will find it to be a simple, quick and easy to use software for your post-processing needs. Lets start with the Basic Panel...

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How to Convert Portraits to B&W with Lightroom 4

In this tutorial I will show you how to convert a portrait (shot in RAW format) to a black & white image using Lightroom 4. By the end of the tutorial, and with some practice, I hope to teach you how to have full control over the look of your B&W images. While I chose this particular look for this particular portrait, Lightroom offers many kinds of different ways to convert your images to black & white, and so it’s impossible to put all the looks into one tutorial. Certain conversions fit certain images better than others, and it also depends on taste and goal of the author. In the future, I hope to make more tutorials for both black & white and color photography with different conversion methods and looks

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How to Properly Sharpen Images in Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes with powerful tools to sharpen images during post-processing. Located in the Develop module of Lightroom, the “Detail” box contains both Sharpening and Noise Reduction tools that allow Photographers to enhance their digital workflows by fine-tuning images and getting them ready to be published and printed in a quick and efficient way. Since I have already covered the noise reduction part in my Noise Reduction Tutorial, in this article, I will show you how to properly use the Sharpening tool instead...

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Mastering Lightroom: How To Use the Tone Curve Panel

In this short tutorial I will show you how to use one of the easiest and most powerful tools found in Lightroom – the Tone Curve. In my previous tutorial about black & white conversions, I briefly showed you how to use the HSL Panel’s Luminance section to control the lightness of separate colors of the image. Using the Tone Curve Panel is very similar as it also allows you to control the lightness and darkness of various parts of a given photograph, however, rather than altering separate colors, the Tone Curve tool controls certain ranges of actual tones in the image...

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Mastering Lightroom Slideshows and Web Galleries

Maximizing Dynamic Range

Maximizing Dynamic Range

The more time I spend in my photography pursuits, the more I appreciate cameras that capture and photos that exploit their maximum dynamic range potential. Digital cameras have undergone dramatic improvements over the last 12+ years, but they still don’t come close to the human eye’s dynamic range capabilities. By some estimates, the human eye can distinguish up to 24 f-stops of dynamic range. Higher end DSLRs such as the Nikon D800 by comparison, can capture up to a theoretical max of 14.4 f-stops of dynamic range. The usable dynamic range of most DSLRs, however, is closer to 5-9 f-stops, considering the impact of noise, which can render some of the DSLRs’ f-stop range impractical to exploit. Thus your eyes – at least for now – are still far more capable than the best DSLR relative to recognizing various tonal gradations

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  1) Good Dynamic Range Starts With A Good Camera D7000 2) Variety Of Techniques 3) Assessment Of Lighting Conditions 4) Auto Adjustment In Lightroom 4 5) Boosting Exposure In Lightroom 4 6) Combining The Exposures 7) Final Modifications 8) Summary

Sustainable Business Models for visual arts marketplace

Sustainable Business Models  for visual arts marketplace

Sustainable Business Models: Issues and Trends Facing Visual Artisits







Manipulation Tutorial PSD

Manipulation Tutorial PSD


Photoshop for beginners

Dramatic Lighting - Manipulation Tutorial (PSD Box)


Create an amazingly punchy artwork in Photoshop






Create Colorful Manipulations in Photoshop



Hard Light Effects in Photoshop - (PSD Box)


Hard Light Effects in Photoshop


Necrania Chmurella - Brno

Portrait Retouching Tutorial Part 1 (PSD Box)




Portrait Retouching Tutorial Part 2 (PSD Box)





Complete Retouch Overview (PSD Box)




Add quick effects to your portrait photos




Requested: Color Matching - Manipulation Secrets




Photoshop CS5: Fashion Retouching Projects - lynda.com