Stock Photography Video Tutorial : Editing your image

Hi folks and I hope that you are all well?

Over the last few weeks I have been recording a number of video tutorials.  Not easy to do in one take at the moment, but I am sure as I progress they will become a little easier and complete within the one recording.

Not so long ago a friend asked about the process of my stock workflow as he is keen to become a contributor.  So I put together this set of videos which are intended to be a beginner’s guide to taking an image from the RAW capture through to the upload and categorising of the picture at the agency.

The techniques which I regularly use for editing stock images I have learnt from the following – Calvin Hollywood [click here], Glyn Dewis [click here] and AJ Wood [click here].

I am still rather new to the world of video tutorials, so please any constructive feedback will be appreciated either on here, or you can contact me via e-mail todor@nw10photography.com

Next time I will be sharing the second part of this tutorial which is keywording your image.

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Todor

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Editing images on a digital television test

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Whilst unplugging the DVD player from my TV I noticed that there was a PC input next to one of the SCART sockets, and decided to try and use the TV instead of the monitor.  I was not in possession of my calibrator, so I could not try and see if that worked, so it was just a case of plug in and go for it.  The television is a Panasonic Viera which is about 5 years of age…

Naturally, there were a few adjustments to be made, such as making sure I could see all of the desktop on the screen, but being able to see everything larger was a little more appealing. Albeit, it was a lot brighter.

Now, the purpose of this post is to ask those of you who have calibrated monitors whether you can see any obvious signs that the image which I have posted was not edited on a calibrated monitor.  This picture is of my son and was taken in my kitchen.  The editing has been done in Adobe Camera RAW, as well as PHOTOSHOP itself where I just adjusted the levels.

 

Let me know your thoughts and any feedback on how it looks on your display.  Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Todor

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Composite Practise

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The other day I was practising some compositing techniques.  Here is one of the images I have put together using a shot of actor, Mel Mills.

This particular technique is one I found in Scott Kelby’s LIGHT IT, SHOOT IT book.  I really like Scott Kelby’s books, mainly because of his writing style, but also the techniques you learn as well.

This second image is one that is still in progress, as I am not happy with some aspects of it.

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Todor

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A very quick first video tutorial – The Screen Blend Mode

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Not so long ago I put together a tutorial showing you how to brighten up your images using the SCREEN blend mode.  This is a fantastic little technique because you can use it for a variety of different techniques, for example brightening the whites of the eyes, as well as the general image.

The post to which this relates to can be found by clicking here.

This is my first video, and there is no sound as I have written out the steps to the technique on the linked post.  Please let me know what you think and I am sure that by the time I record the next few I will be a whizz at the software I have downloaded!

 

 

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One of my latest stock images

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This image is one from a series that I took for stock.  The one which will be submitted to the agency is in colour, however, for this post I decided that I wanted it in black and white.  The image was taken with a Nikon D700, bounced flash and processed through lightroom only.  I adjusted the sharpness, used the punch preset, and desaturated the image.

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Todor

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Shots on Film

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I just wanted to share with you a couple of images that I took using a film camera – Olympus OM2n and Ilford 400  film.

As I have said in a few posts I want to do more shooting on film for a variety of reasons.  One of them being getting out of the On Demand mindset where we expect an everything now mentality.

Here are a couple of images I have recently taken in London’s Regent’s Park.

These images are straight from camera and have not been edited in any way either in LR or PS.

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Todor

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Photoshop Tutorial : Andrei Oprinca

Hi folks, I hope that you are all well?  I am freezing here in London, UK, wondering when Spring will make its debut this year!  It is SO cold!!!

Today’s post will be a video tutorial by Andrei Oprinca, whom you may remember I blogged about not so long ago.  This is a great tutorial one which I will be trying out myself.

Some of y regular readers may have noticed that there has been a lack of new images being posted on the blog.  This is mainly to do with a number of large projects which I have been working on in the background.  I am pleased to say that they will be coming into fruition in the not to distant future. Furthermore, I am going to be shooting film a lot more – this Summer holiday will be mainly shot on film, which I am quite excited about.

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Todor

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