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The Great Photo Finish: How To's - Adobe Photoshop CS4 - June 18, 2010
Started June 18, 2010 @ 12:01am by Kel
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Kel
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| The Great Photo Finish: How To's - Adobe Photoshop CS4 - June 18, 2010 | June 18, 2010 @ 12:01am | In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at the idea of personal vision and style and how we can make our finishing work serve our vision instead of the other way around.
Here is a list (partial) that we promised of visual elements of design for photographers - light, color, line, repetition, shape, texture, depth of field, implied motion, stopped motion, form, unity, balance, tension, coherence, mass, chaos, simplicity, order, proportion, etc.
You can also obviously make up your own like I have with “Layers of Story” or get more specific like listing an element of color like complimentary color.
Here is a link to video where you can learn more about the Polaroid Pogo Printer.
Click here to view the video.
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." ~Ansel Adams | My Blog |
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Wes
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| June 18, 2010 @ 8:24am | I am going to sound like a broken record, here, but it is truly inspiring to watch and listen to you make your changes to an image, Craig. Your approach is so easy to understand and the end result is always extraordinary. I am one of those people who have tried so many plugins for sharpening and your technique beats them all. I could have saved enough money for a workshop (LOL). A great thanks for sharing your digital darkroom techniques and expertise.
Best regards,
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Craig
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| thank you | June 18, 2010 @ 9:26am |
Hey Wes,
Thank you for the kind words of support for my sharpening action . In all seriousness....thank you for all of the support Wes...it means more than you can know my friend....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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Sam Gray
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| June 18, 2010 @ 10:03am | Wonderful image accompanied by your always illuminating instruction...your clarity and simplicity of vision and work flow are always good to listen to and view. Mental repetition seems to be one of my requirements. I always feel energized by your tutorials...might have something to do with the person doing the video.
Sam Gray
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Bug
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| June 18, 2010 @ 2:23pm | Hi Craig,
I always enjoy the Great Photo Finish series. I appreciate the time and effort you take to produce them. I just wanted to thank you sooo....thank you Craig for a job well done! 
Charlene
Dancing with my fears, flying my freak flag. |
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Pixelle
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| To Craig | June 19, 2010 @ 12:55am |
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Hi Craig,
I always enjoy the Great Photo Finish series. I appreciate the time and effort you take to produce them. I just wanted to thank you sooo....thank you Craig for a job well done!
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Same with me, Craig. Always a pleasure to learn with you. A big big thank you. Un gros merci du fond du coeur.*
* from the bottom of my heart. I almost write of my art  For me, when I am writing, there is no difference between those sounds: heart and art. 
Micheline
"Finding and expressing your vision is a journey, not a destination". David Du Chemin
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Flo
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Jim
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| Levels vs Curves | June 19, 2010 @ 4:46pm | Very nice episode. I hope more of these kind of in-depth discussions are planned. Your comment about looking first for Light rather than subject really hit home. I think for me it might help get over my occasional photographer's block (can't find anything new to shoot).
The video raised several questions in my mind that I could ask, but I'm going to ask something so basic it's almost embarrassing.
I've been taught that Curves is just a more sophisticated version of Levels and that you should use Curves rather than Levels in most cases. But you seem to use them for distinct purposes. Under what circumstances do you use one versus the other? |
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Craig
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| thank you | June 19, 2010 @ 5:35pm |
Hey Sam, Bug, Pixelle,
Thank you for the kind words of support....deeply appreciated.
Flo...thank you for the info on the POGO!!!
Jim...I agree with you.....curves is more powerful than levels. When I am interested in managing specific levels of luminosity I tend to use curves. I will target the area or areas and make adjustments accordingly. When I am trying to create a lighting effect by exaggerating existing highlights I typically do what I did here....make an exaggerated levels adjustment by pulling very hard from the right slider and moving the black point in a little too.
I mostly use levels to reset my black and white point in the image and to create highlight lighting effects like I did in this video....Hope that helps...would love to hear the other questions.
Thank you again to all of you for being here and supporting The Mindful Eye Photography School.....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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Wes
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| June 19, 2010 @ 6:10pm | Flo, I just received an Email from Polaroid and they also have the extra batteries in stock. They cost about $29.99 or something like that. About half as what the PoGo goes for. Thanks for the post.
Wes |
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Flo
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| June 20, 2010 @ 8:20am | Thanks, Wes. Trouble with the Polaroid PoGo is that the prints cost so much. Canon has a small portable Selphy dye-sub printer that makes prints for about 27 cents each. But one reviewer found that it cuts off heads and other subjects if they are too close to the edge.
Michael Campbell took a portable printer with him to the Dominican Republic last year - Michael, if you're reading this, how about weighing in on the pros and cons of that little printer?
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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rdouglas
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| Thanks for sharing the backend | June 22, 2010 @ 12:23am | I really enjoy this image, and it is exciting see the postwork tbat you did to finish it.
http://www.randalldouglas.com |
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| June 22, 2010 @ 3:55am | Hello,
Thanks so much for this video. It has clarified many areas for me. Developing a personal style and integrating taking the image with crative digital dark room work.
G |
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Sandy
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| Thanks for the post-production lesson | June 25, 2010 @ 10:23pm | Craig thanks for making me think more about my vision. . .and I would never have thought of masking the unsharp filter--I'll be using this for everything.
Sandy Belk |
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| vision | June 28, 2010 @ 10:50am | For me this presentation integrated the artistic vision and it's implementation i.e PP, in the best way. It help enormously with organizing my PP requirements/techniques in accordance with my artist intent. Thank you
Joe Liftik
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