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Post Process Tips
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read tutorials (online, on photography sites, etc), look at other people's work, figure out what tools you want to use... the industry standard is Photoshop and Lightroom is becoming a second.... There are some free photoediting software such as GIMP, and you can try the demo version.. if you are a student, you can get a lot of these editing software pretty cheap...
UnknownSouljer
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I use Aperture for a majority of my stills post work. I personally found this video made by John Thawley to be very useful. It dialogues his workflow when working with images. John Thawley is a well known auto-sports photographer if you're looking for professional commentary.
But, I agree with Darktiger. Spend a lot of time looking up professional photographers and get an idea of their workflow. Some of them even give a good idea of how they tweak. Of course over time, it is important to develop your own style and not just copy others. I've found in general that my post work has changed a lot over the past 2 years. I'll make and find new breakthroughs on what makes my images look better, doing things I haven't done before that create incremental change. A lot of it is also practice and experimentation. Hopefully you like the post process, or it will really slow down your ability to grown and learn.
But, I agree with Darktiger. Spend a lot of time looking up professional photographers and get an idea of their workflow. Some of them even give a good idea of how they tweak. Of course over time, it is important to develop your own style and not just copy others. I've found in general that my post work has changed a lot over the past 2 years. I'll make and find new breakthroughs on what makes my images look better, doing things I haven't done before that create incremental change. A lot of it is also practice and experimentation. Hopefully you like the post process, or it will really slow down your ability to grown and learn.
ive read a few tutorials, and i own both photoshop and lightroom both, my mom bought them for me for xmas, she was in college and got a discount on the cs5 master collection, think she paid like 400 for it.. anyway, was just wondering what all went into it, when i google it and tutorials, i get programs and presets, which is not exactly what im looking for, thanks for the suggestions!
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To reiterate, I would look for photographers you like and respect, and watch any videos or materials they have showing you how they do what they do. The thing with most photo editing programs is they have so many different things you can 'touch'. Finding out the method that changes the photos in the way you want with the least amount of effort is critical. In Photoshop as an example there is way more than one way to do the same thing. Probably at least three to accomplish any one thing.
Lightroom and Aperture simplify these things of course, but there is still a lot of ways to do the same things in those programs as well.
Lightroom and Aperture simplify these things of course, but there is still a lot of ways to do the same things in those programs as well.
after figuring out how to add downloaded presets, i kinda figured it, i will upload some pics tommorow, thanks for the replies guys, i appreciate it... ive been left hanging over on the webmastering and programming forum, anybody able to help with a photography website/portfolio?
I have two pics im kinda interested in playing with, kinda looking for suggestions,
First Alys, My niece, who was a scarecrow for Halloween, i am looking to make this picture..PoP
Little Scarecrow Alys by tgray96, on Flickr
Next, My cousin Alicia , and her Cousin Shay, looking to make this one.. Uh stand out..
Shay and Alicia by tgray96, on Flickr
And last, my niece, Calysta at the courthouse, which i played with in lightroom..
Caly at the Courthouse by tgray96, on Flickr
First Alys, My niece, who was a scarecrow for Halloween, i am looking to make this picture..PoP
Little Scarecrow Alys by tgray96, on Flickr
Next, My cousin Alicia , and her Cousin Shay, looking to make this one.. Uh stand out..
Shay and Alicia by tgray96, on Flickr
And last, my niece, Calysta at the courthouse, which i played with in lightroom..
Caly at the Courthouse by tgray96, on Flickr
The color ICC profile is off on this file, or my IE install is messed up. If you have a wide gamut display it'll look right in Firefox. This shouldn't be heavily red balanced. I need to track down what part of my setup is off, oh the joys of having a wide gamut monitor.
The picture looked really dark to me. So I brightened it with the curves. Then adjusted the color balance.
Then I wanted to blur the background a bit more, so made a copy of all the layers, added a mask to it. On that mask I applied a black white gradient on it that faded into the back. Again on the same mask I drew on Alys with the foreground gradient color. I then used the Blur->Lens Blur filter.
I find Alicia and Shay to be underexposed in the second photo also.
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