Global Adjustments in Camera Raw®
Lesson 32 from: Capturing Story in Portrait PhotographyKelly Brown
Global Adjustments in Camera Raw®
Lesson 32 from: Capturing Story in Portrait PhotographyKelly Brown
Lesson Info
32. Global Adjustments in Camera Raw®
Lessons
Class Introduction
14:28 2The Power of Portrait Photography
06:52 3Introduction to Newborn Portrait
08:30 4Find Inspiration for Newborn Portrait
11:09 5Create The Scene for Newborn Portrait
05:58 6Prepare & Pose Newborn for Portrait
18:03 7Shoot: Techniques for Photographing Newborn
08:58 8Newborn Image Review
08:57Introduction & Find Inspiration For Child Portrait
13:03 10Create The Scene for Child Portrait
05:17 11Prepare Set for Child Portrait
05:48 12Shoot: Capture Child Portrait
11:40 13Image Review for Child Portrait
11:45 14Introduction & Inspiration For Teenager Portrait
09:05 15Create The Scene for Teenager Portrait
06:15 16Building Set for Teenager Portrait
14:01 17Shoot: Portrait with Teenager
10:43 18Shoot: Pose Teenager for Multiple Looks
14:23 19Image Review for Teenage Portrait
08:11 20Introduction & Inspiration For Adult Portrait
11:31 21Creating The Scene for Adult Portrait
06:25 22Lighting for Adult Portrait
04:51 23Tell Your Subject's Story
04:38 24Shoot: Lighting for Double Exposure
16:22 25Introduction to Senior Portrait
08:39 26Create Storyboard & The Scene For Senior Portrait
10:26 27Connect With Client to Create Portrait
16:06 28Shoot: Lighting for Senior Portrait
08:10 29Shoot: Be Creative on Set
15:09 30Image Review for Senior Portrait
14:23 31Portrait Shoots Recap
04:08 32Global Adjustments in Camera Raw®
05:37 33Editing In Photoshop® CC: New Born Portrait
24:41 34Editing In Photoshop® CC: Child Portrait
15:35 35Editing In Photoshop® CC: Adult Portrait
11:32 36Editing In Photoshop® CC: Teenager Portrait
11:28 37Editing In Photoshop® CC: Senior Portrait
13:46 38Introduction to Entering Print Competitions
02:14 39Process of Print Competitions
06:17 40What to Consider For Print Competitions
17:00 41What Judges Look For Overview
07:14 42Image Impact
03:42 43Creativity, Style & Composition in Images
14:04 44Entering Photography Competitions Q&A
22:50 45Image Lighting
05:43 46Image Color Balance
03:56 47Technical Excellence in Images
07:56 48Photographic Technique
10:15 49Storytelling & Subject Matter
09:28Lesson Info
Global Adjustments in Camera Raw®
I've gone through yesterday's images here and I have selected five photographs. I'm always shooting in Camera Raw so that when I open these files, I'm gonna open them in Camera Raw. I'm going to then make any adjustments in Camera Raw that are global adjustments that I need to make, and then I'm going to go straight into Photoshop. I don't personally use Lightroom, nothing against Lightroom, it's just me, particular, I'm a Photoshop girl and I can do everything in Photoshop that I can do in Lightroom. I've got my own ways and habits and there is a million ways to do everything in Photoshop, so I'm not trying to tell you that there's a new, other way to do it, I'm just saying do what works best for you. And I'm gonna show you how I look at photographs, how I bring out the detail, and how I use Photoshop to do that. I'm going to go ahead and highlight these selections and I think with the newborn shoot I took three photographs and I was happier with the final capture that I took there in...
terms of the pose and the way that the baby was sitting. And I can see I've got two photographs here of Olivia, a 10 year old, selected because I love the expression on her face where she's seated, but I'm gonna edit the one where she's standing because that was my original concept and vision. But I do really like the expression that she's got here on the seated one. Then with our teenager, this expression on her face really spoke to me, and the stance. I wanted her to feel powerful and like she was in control and confident, and I think out of all of the captures that I took of her, this one really stood out to me, so that's why I selected it. When you are going through and making your selects, you gotta go back to your criteria of why you're taking this shot. What is your goal? You go through and you're like, "am I selecting that just because of this? Or am I actually creating an image here that's showing the purpose behind that frame?" So we'll open those in Photoshop. And then obviously we have our double exposure there of Raymond, which was absolutely brilliant. One thing that I always use Camera Raw for is to have a look at the color temperature. I was asked previously about my white balance. Because I'm shooting RAW, and I've got all of that information in that file, and these files are absolutely huge, I can quickly just adjust the color temperature here, under white balance. And when I do this, I'm really looking around that daylight balanced temperature of 5,600 Kelvin degrees. Which is quite warm, but when we shot this, under the strobes, they were quite warm, so it's 6,350 Kelvin. So I'm gonna bring that back to probably around that 5,600. Here we go. And that's probably looking a little more accurate for me in terms of that color balance. I can click down to the next image, and I know I can warm this up a lot. It's at 4,500, I can bring that temperature up, make that really nice and warm. And let's go there for that baby around 5,500, only because sometimes babies can be a little red, and this little one, she actually had quite pink skin tones, from memory when I was photographing her, so I'm gonna keep that there. And if I need to warm her up a little more in Photoshop, I actually can. I don't need to adjust any of my exposure. I'm looking at my histogram, I've got lots of detail there in my highlights, so I don't need to adjust the exposure or bring those highlights down. I'm really happy with those. Then down here, because I'm going to do a head swap, I need to make sure that both of these have the same color temperature. And looking at the histogram, it is not that different from highlights and shadows. And when I mean highlights and shadows, I'm looking at the shadows down here where they end, highlights up here where they start, and if I go between both of those, there's not a lot of difference; so I don't need to adjust the exposure there at all to make this gel. And that's when you are doing any form of composite, you need to make sure that when it comes to all of those different elements, in terms of lighting, depth of field, focal plane, exposure, color temperature, all of those match. Because if it doesn't, then you're gonna really be able to tell that something's been copied and pasted into that photograph. So all of those different elements need to be shot at a similar focal length, depth of field, in terms of your aperture, and those lighting scenarios, in terms of the direction of light and everything. So let's adjust this, let's bring this down to around 5,600. And then we'll do the same here, 5,500, so that's gonna be good, and then down here.
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Just loving this class! Kelly is one of my favorite instructors. She is very good at articulating her ideas and carrying them to an absolutely wonderful end product. Her images are always stunning. I love that she always puts safety first with her models. Thank you Kelly for sharing your creative visions with us.
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