What’s happening, @threespeak? I just wrote an entire freewrite because I expected this video encoding process to take hours. I thought for sure it would take even longer to upload, but my reliable MacBook Pro surprised me. It’s done, and the upload here is going pretty fast. I guess I’ll just share this tutorial tonight. I’ve done a few of these over the years. Usually I keep my techniques close to the vest, but when I do share my trade secrets, it’s here and on Patreon.
This is a tutorial on how to reclaim severely underexposed photos. I was shooting with my friend Audrey in New York City. It was run and gun late at night. Our only light was the occasional lamps near subway entries and restaurants. Most of the shots I took were properly exposed with a steady hand [and steady model], but this shot was about three stops [at least], underexposed. You could barely see the original. It took some work, but you can pull some miracles out with the power of raw files.
This is an in depth walk through of how to salvage a once lost image. There’s a lot of techniques in here that come from a much different angle than your typical YouTube Photoshop blogger. It’s a sophisticated way to illuminate the subject while still preserving the mood and seduction of a dark pinup shot. Near the end, I even get in to some digital painting techniques. I’ll be posting more of these. Thanks for watching and for more tutorials, follow me here @kommienezuspadt.
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The amazing thing about photoshop (or any other creative tool for that matter) that there are so may ways to achieve desired result even though the workflow is so different.
Camera sensors have become so sophisticated that it allows so much creativity in post. There is so much data in RAW files that it allows a lof of room for error while shooting. I have even made three photography prophesies in my post here and one of them was that in the future you will not need to think about exposure while shooting.
I am not sure how much dynamic range you Nikon has (and i was a sworn Nikon shooter all of my career as photographer) until i moved to mirroless Sony which blows me away.
But these are just the tools, the real creativity lies inside each creative.
I really enjoyed watching this. I also have a Wacom tablet and I try to use it more but I always have trouble switching between tools with it. I really need to get better at it. Any tips?
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Haha, that dark photo looks like most of mine. I guess a lot of it has to do with the equipment I have though. When I was younger I didn't really connect with my dad over photography like my sister did. By the time I was in college it wasn't as big a part of my dad's life like it was. I wish I had taken a course in college. Just to learn more about composition and stuff like that.