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Let’s chat about cameras, photos, photography, Photoshop,lenses and most importantly anything cool.
A photographer in Calgary.
Posted by Colin
Let’s chat, shall we?
Let’s chat about cameras, photos, photography, Photoshop,lenses and most importantly anything cool.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Hey Colin,
first I’d like to say that I really admire your work and have been continuously trying to study your lighting and attempting to create similar situations. I had a few questions;
1. on the image of the lady eating another lady in a hotdog bun, you say you merged about 5 shots. Did you take an almost HDR approach to it and merge different exposures to even her out completely? or what exactly do you mean by that? and when you merge, what is your technique of choice for blending really in your face detail that is too eye catching to simply feather/patch over?
2. to smooth out your skin, are you using healing brush? clone at low opacity? or any filter with a low opacity selective mask?
3. In your interior architecture shots, I’m pretty positive you are using some high dynamic range however, even then, everything seems entirely too beautifully lit to simply be available light and the random lights in the building. How are you powering your strobes?!?! I cant see light spill anywhere!? like I cant tell where external lighting is coming from! awesome job man. are you just crazy ridiculous in cleaning it in Photoshop or are you somehow SUPER diffusing your light sources?
Sorry for all the questions my friend, whenever you get a chance, no rush on an answer.
-Enea
July 1st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hi Enea - thanks for the props, I really appreciate emails like yours - they inspire me to keep working.
On to your questions:
1. No its not HDR, it’s just 5 seperate shots compositied together. I have to admit I don’t have a specific “technique of choice for blending really in your face detail that is too eye catching to simply feather/patch over?” In fact I’m not even all that sure what you mean…lol!
2. For skin smoothing I primarily Clone, Patch and Heal - pretty much the same as everyone else. The small pics you see on the web eliminate a lot of the detail. At full size my shots are not as smooth as you may think. I never do the blur then reduce opacity trick… I don’t like the results.
3. My interior shots are a real hodge podge. Some HDR, some with lights some are 1 RAW file. In fact just today I had an interior shoot. I took 3 exposures to use in a ‘traditional’ HDR manner but I found that I liked the results of just using the longest exposure layered on top of the middle exposures then playing with the lighter shots opacity. I’ll have a couple photos from that shoot on my flickr page within the next couple days. They’ll appear on my website some time, I just can’t say when, lol. I don’t ilke HDR that has too much of the HDR look - I like it more subtle so I usually try other methods before resorting to HDR.
Later,
Colin