Photoshop Workshop on Sunday

Hey Team

I am running a photoshop work shop this weekend so this is just a little brief overview of what I am covering

1. Selection Tools
2. Filters
3. Liquify Tool
4. Layers (Only touching on this briefly because its a massive topic. There are whole books written on this topic.
5. Basic Brushes and Opacity Settings

After that a few questions and then into some Portrait Retouching. Which is as follows:

1. Blemish Removal and Wrinkles
2. Eye Enhancement
3. Lip Enhancement
4. Skin Smoothing and Texturing
5. Sharpening
6. Color adjustments and shadowing
7. Contrast

I am not putting a time on this because it will take a while. So if you keen come and have a listen. I have attached an example for you all first the After and then the Before. Time is still to be announced and place I think will most likely be in the Media hub.

Thanks Brett

Wide angle article – Digital Photographer Magazine

I somehow managed to get myself a 3 page article as one of the ‘experts’ in this months edition of Digital Photographer Magazine on the use of wide angle lenses in wedding photography. It just goes to show, if you don’t ask, you most certainly don’t get! Another amazing JC Hookup!

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Visual Inspiration – Norman Jean Roy & Mark Seliger

I was looking for some inspiration in terms of posing in portraiture and came across these two photographers, both of whom have photographed for the likes of Vanity Fair, Vogue and Rolling Stone to name but a few!

Their individual lighting techniques, posing and composition were really inspiring to me and kept me captivated on their respective sites for quite a while so I thought I’d care to share!

http://www.art-dept.com/artists/roy/

http://www.markseliger.com/

Cheers,

Ben

The Rundown

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been following The Still Image. It is always useful for some quick inspiration and often gives me a trick or idea that I can use in future shoots.

The Still Image takes photos by various professional photographers around the world and gets the photographer to give a run down behind the process of creating the image. One day, it will be a wedding photo, followed by a studio shot, followed by a PJ shot, followed by a fine art shot. I love the variety and find that the techniques presented in one genre will work nicely in another genre.

Once Abrupt has been published, I am keen to run through some of the photos in a similar fashion, so watch this space.