Yearly Archives: 2010

Photoshop Technique: Dodging and Burning

Following on from the recent Samurai Posts I thought I’d cover some of the Post Production techniques I used in Photoshop to get the final overall look. The first technique I’ll cover involves how I worked on Mike’s skin in the 3/4 length composite. Time wise I guess I worked on his skin for about 45...

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Meet my good friend A.J. Wood

Regular readers of this blog will recognise the name A.J.Wood; a great friend of mine from Dallas, Texas who runs Media Cats; a Digital Media Training Company and also who just happens to be the one of the most incredible instructors in all things Adobe: I first met A.J. at a Photoshop World Convention in...

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Samurai: Full Length Composite using Photoshop

Hi All. Following on from Friday’s Samurai ‘Walk Through’ post, here’s one final edited image from the shoot… As you can see from the images below this is a composite, with the original shot of Mike being taken against a grey seamless and this is one of the full length shots I mentioned about in...

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Samurai Photo Shoot Part 1: A Walk-Through

Ok so rather than do a complete walk through of both the photo shoot and editing in one long post I though it best to split it. So, for this post I’ll concentrate on the lighting set ups and then in a few days I’ll cover some of the editing techniques I used to create...

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Photographing a Samurai (Coming Soon!!!)

Hi All. With a busy few days ahead I thought I’d just give you an overview of a post I’m putting together of the recent Samurai Photo Shoot… With three different lighting set ups, I’m putting together a complete ‘walk through’ and will post up a selection of images from the White Seamless and the...

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