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Lesson 17 from: Beyond Photography

Doug Landreth

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Lesson 17 from: Beyond Photography

Doug Landreth

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17. Wrap Up

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I'm open for questions. Let's bring it on. Right. This is fun. So Norwegian Fred had asked if you had all the time in the world to do this. How long would you spend on an image like this If you would you spend all day? Would you spend a week? Does it depend on the image? Right? Defense found the image. I'm happy with this image. You know, I might steer it in a different direction a couple of days. So now this will live, you know, in my files for a little bit, but it's kind of chewy and tasty for me. So, um, really, I might do something a little different with the birds or add maybe a little something else going on. But, you know, they it's it's not a function of time. It's just a function of when the image tells you that they're done. Yeah. Good answer. Yeah. Doug, um, creative is wanting to know about your background. Is it an art background? Pre photography. What first got you started going down this road? You know, I've always been interested in art. When I was a kid, I did some dra...

wing and stuff like that. And I mentioned some of my inspiration was from some of the the painter service exposed to as a kid. Why? I think some of those guys it was just like magic to me How they could put so much emotion into their work. Um, you know, some a two dimensional representative representational thing that could, um, really move you. So I got involved in photography. Uhm, my brother and I, with the encouragement of our mother, had and Chris just to get some summer jobs during high school, we saved our money and pulled it and went on a two week tour of Europe with this youth program with about 10 other students from across the country. And we bought a 35 millimeter camera in some slide film toe take with us, and we got bit hard by the bug. We came back with a ton of images and I was very fortunate. I mean thing this whole time I've talked about inspiration and motivation and passion, and we had ah, a teacher at our high school that ran a photography program that saw something Ennis and was very inspirational. So then I actually went down to Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and studied. I got a degree in professional photography and came up and started doing commercial work on Had a large studio. I've been doing shooting commercially for a long, long time. And it's where I met David. My Associated Photo Morphosis. And we've worked as great creative collaborators for a long time. And so, yeah, my background, you know, I absorbed that stuff. It's like I mentioned earlier you you know, I think as artists, we all seek inspiration. I think that's why a whole lot of people are tuned into this program and so many other programs like it. It's like it's like that movie was it? Feed me, feed me Seymour. You know that planet just can't get enough and it grows and grows and grows. And that's our whole, you know, process and adventure. And it's lifelong thing. I'm Amy as artists, I feel blessed because, you know, and I have people ask me what I'm gonna be doing for retirement, and I say this. This is not a job, it's not. I mean, it's it's a way of life. It's a passion. So, yeah, this is just something that I'll always be doing as long as I can. Stand up breathing, carry a camera. Some lucky you. Lucky you. Oh, hey, you know, it's a blessing. Absolutely blessing, Yeah, to be doing what you really love. That's that's a great way. It's It's wonderful. So Heather, in the chat room had asked where she could see another workshop from you. Well, if you could just tell us a little bit about you know where people confined your work, what you normally do and right? Yeah, if you can't know that, um, I got involved in I took my art toe art shows all the time. And I got always tell when photographers would come into the art booth. I mean, my booth and they, you know, I'd get there, knows this close to the prince and study every little detail. And I, you know, let them study it for a while and come up your photographer and she Yeah. What are you doing here? A friend of mine actually started teaching some workshops. He's a photographer back in Tennessee is saying, you know, people you know there's a need for this if you know you need to be you need to be teaching. And I thought, Well, maybe so. So David and I actually, um we have cut back on some of the commercial work that we do, and we decided this would be a great fun thing to do. So we started teaching Cem workshops about a year ago. And, um, we have done some destination workshops in Napa that are intensive kind of workshops where it's a five day workshops, small group, Um, and the first after the 1st 1 I mean, I've still got close friends from the students that were in that group and they blew me out of the water. It's such it was so rewarding for me, and it's like, I mean, it's like doing this and seeing the light bulbs turn on and looking at the flicker page from just a day, talking about some of these things and seeing some of the calibre of work and the caliber of, you know, creative thought that goes into it. It's so it's a really rewarding thing. We teach some workshops. In fact, next weekend, Friday, Saturday, we're teaching a workshop here in Seattle. I do a two day seminar. Um, it's a little, it's more focused. Its it builds up slowly in Photoshopped A to Z, and then we have, uh, labs. So we actually have to lab days that people can sign up for one lab day or two lab days or no lab days, and they bring their computers, they bring their files and it's one on one. And David and I go around and field questions and coach and really tackle the issues that they're concerned about. So it's been really rewarding. We're doing one this weekend in Seattle. And then, um now, sorry. This coming weekend in Seattle and then following, we've got one scheduled down in Portland, and we're looking at doing some location shooting and Photoshopped workshops and some, you know, some interesting destination. So, um, would you be, um, the Internet suggesting him. Australia. Why? They're ready. They're ready for you to come. I'm there. I'm there. I'm so there. Yeah, And that cannot be found on your website. All of that information. Yeah. Photo morpheus dot com has got a link and, um metamorphosed that blawg spot dot com. It's also blogged that is focused on the workshops. And Landrith Workshop is also another one. It was Landrith workshops. Now it's I think that length goes to Fort Amorphous. That block spot. Great. Yeah. We're still putting all the Web pieces together. I should mention I've got a lot of people in the audience. I'm sorry. I'm This is a guilty look that you see on my face, because I all these new things, things like tweeting and twitter I'm really bad at, You know, again, I communicate with images and I'm getting pulled along in that in that stream, a lot of people are signing up to follow me on Twitter. And I promise you that I will try and do a better job with Twitter. We had to talk about that. We do have to talk about that. So OK, good. And do you have any books that you've that you've worked on? Whether they be photo books, caught comfortable books or instructional books way we don't have any instructional books out yet. I have several small blurb books that people could order that there's links to on the phone amorphous website. Um and I have I've just put together four books that air coffee table books, self published on different aspects. of my work and, uh, you know, hopefully those will be up on the photo Morpheus website as well. Terrific question from me. What's what's next with the art? I've seen all your different things that you've been exploring. Do you have any ideas as to what you might want to bring in next? As a subject matter, You know, people come into my booth there, look at the overall body of my work and they go here are depend down. You're all over the place, and it's a I'm interested in a lot of things, So I I can't really say I can't. I guess the artwork will dictate, uh, where I go. Yeah, hard to say. Would you be interested in There's a request for you to please outline the brief overall arc of process and rationale from start to finish for the art that you just completed just to give the big picture. Wow. Now all right. So, yeah, you saw me open up my old layered files for this work and kind of trying to explain the process. It's always difficult to go back in and look at the process that we started. So actually, this is the original file. What? How do you know if this is all the files that hello there? Hello? Not even sure what files for turned on and off when I lifted the file over to this other image, I think I had those off. And I think that's kind of where that ended up and one, you know, I mean one sort of salient point here is that the whole process the two witnessed waas guesswork, experimentation, turning things on and off. It's, you know, when I said it's a process of kind of discovery or detective work, Um, I brought in these images of texture, So I mean, really, if I was to go from the ground up, um, created a duplicate layer, made it black and white. I used that for some masks. I grouped together some textures it's gonna be and then laid in some blacks over the top of those textures from these channel masks that I created, um, actually applied a blur to a layer of the darks, covered it with a duplicate layer of those dark, set the multiply, so I had a little bit of Ghostie blur quality to the blacks. But at the same time retained the sharpness of the blacks. You could actually, you know, put a blurred layer of the blacks down and then put a highly sharpened layer of the blacks over the top. So it's like you're you know, you're blurring it, and then you're layering over the top with, you know, highly sharpened layer of black, you know, adding mawr, texture and so forth. I duplicated the layers so that I could kind of work on doing some other stuff, brought in a new texture to kind of frame. It used a couple brushes to add a couple elements into the sky without too much. Still not sure about the birds will think we'll see. We used the Dodge burn layer to do a couple of things. So in a nutshell or a nutcase, that's that's a rough synopsis of what just happened. Thank you. Good. Do you have any questions? Burning questions? How about you guys? Everybody's got their eyes rolled back in their heads, going cool. Well, I can't tell you how much fun this has been for me, and I got a new my child to so great. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much that it was a great workshop. Really enjoyed it. Yeah, well, it was absolutely my pleasure. Thanks to the Internet for watching your giving applause. Yeah, all over the place. Thank you. So thanks very much. Thank you.

Class Materials

bonus material with purchase

LandrethLayers.psd
MessingWithLuminosity.psd

bonus material with enrollment

Beyond Photography.pdf
Photomorphis Texture Pack.zip

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

This was my first class and I loved it. Will certainly be back for more. Looking over Doug's shoulder as he creates beautiful art for me was priceless! Also, BIG thanks to B&H for their support of CreativeLive!!!

a Creativelive Student
 

Thank you for the opportunity to take this course and for intrducing me to Doug Landreth's work. The pre-course PDF just blew me away. I'm even more excited about the upcoming course after feasting my eyes on some of Doug's painterly photo images.

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