This post is for photographers. If you said “Yes” to the name of the post, there is nothing new for you here. If your answer is “NO”, stay with me, I’ll rock your world. If you photograph people, you know how much encouraging it is to show stunning image on the back of your camera, […]
Honestly I tried to make a video tutorial – there went my Saturday. Camtasia failed me. While I’m in search of a perfect, or at least working, screen capture studio, here is a snapshot tutorial on how to work with textures. This is one of the recent portraits I shot. Thank you for […]
Times and times again I see proof that Frequency Separation is the best tool around. (I wrote about Frequency Separation before) What is Frequency Separation? It is an editing technique that decomposes image into tone and texture, so you can work with each separately. You can also decide which information belongs to “tone” and which […]
While participating in CreativeLive Portrait Startup I mentioned that we print in-house. We are invested in providing best quality to our clients, and take pride in producing heirloom worthy wall portraits and canvases using archival quality pigments and media. The canvases can live up to two hundred years! This make my heart sing. We’ve researched […]
Few days ago I decided to post a #ThrowbackThursday post on my Facebook page. I found an image dated roughly a year ago and started to work on the new post and then something attracted my attention: The image was off, more specifically it has way too many tags on. Turns out some enterprising Facebook […]
I’m about to share with you my favorite editing technique – Frequency Separation (FS). Essentially there are 2 major ways: with Apply Image or High Pass filter. Any High Pass filter setup would work for what I show here. Use your action or mine. It can be downloaded here. If you’re not familiar with what […]
“…she looked at a clock and saw that it was on the stroke of twelve. She fled from the room, dropping, in her haste, one of the glass slippers. The Prince hurried after her, but when he reached the entrance hall, the beautiful Princess had vanished, and there was no one to be seen but […]
Have you seen Von Wong’s shoot for Smugmug.com? No? NO? Go check it out. Warning though – you might start dreaming of it. Like I did. I got obsessed with it. I wanted to try similar light set-up. No, we don’t have $20K equipment, and did not built rain rig… yet. (on a side note […]
Goal of this article is simple – to share my journey. All opinions shared here are just that – my opinions. In the images used as examples no added fog textures were used (unless noted). Basically if you see fog, that is how it was. (minus color work, duh ;). For one-on-one mentoring on how […]
The sole purpose of this article – sharing my experience. We are talking about a camera above water shoot with the model/client in the water. My ambition is not to tell how it must be done… This is merely a tale of my journey. I have 2 favorite scenarios – photographing a model/client (for convenience […]
