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Bonus: Internet Homework

Lesson 25 from: Dramatic Post-Production

David Nightingale

Bonus: Internet Homework

Lesson 25 from: Dramatic Post-Production

David Nightingale

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25. Bonus: Internet Homework

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Shall we look at the pictures that people did for homework? Perfect. Next. Okay, so let me find where these went. Uh, it was not there. There we go. Right. That's how markets marriages I should not be interested in. This is to guess what people gonna do. Forget it. Forget the before image coming up first. But we predict this one. This is I'm piled stuff by Susanna. GM said crop it square. Okay, please contrast. Yeah, colors. I do really bring out those greens and the blues and bowls some of what we did on my float. Several? Yeah. Already fixing the so I can't quite remember. That's what she does. Ashamed. It's a kind of tell you she's talking coloring at the top. So you coming unified The color across here, which I think I prefer, um, kind of you draw both ways Here. You kind of got the flu topping agreement bottom. Whereas with this one kind of quite like that, I think I might kept the bowl little bit lighter. But what she's done is one of the things they're saying before about kind o...

f unifying the colors. So you remember the claim that the colors were wrong on the shot. My daughter with the blue jacket kind of bringing the colors closer together, Just like if you're going toe shop. When you get your color swatch for decorating, you get colors that go together. Ah, kind of Yeah, you know, you know, convinced? No, I mean for me. Also, Another thing is that the top line is not straight until for me, it's a little bit off. And so my eyes catching that kind of a shot strike because the verticals converging, but kind of No, not yet. What? Yeah, it bothers me too. Yeah, I kind of I kind of like the kind of the off beat symmetry there. I think I might have kept the agent of potting, but I'm not sure it also feels like white in the center is brighter than it. Like it's been getting out. Yeah, this kind of this kind of Avignon united. Ah, and you're going to wait right behind the bull was even evenly let like it is above two separate. It's probably my practice. If I do a lot of work, it's certainly more striking that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. All right. Okay. Uh kind of what we're looking at. We're looking at a magazine overlooking a collage. We're not sure, but we look at a pair of glasses on. So what would you do? This one? I've seen it. So it's all no. One of the answer here. I think we're going separate. What? We're seeing inside the frames of the glasses from the background. Yeah. Make it try to really get stand out. Yeah. How would you do that? I'd lighten. Lighten up. What's inside? Uh huh. I find a color distracting. You know, there's so many colors on this one, I probably would turn it black and white. Alternatively, you could do that. So it's kind of a compromise between the two. Personal. Normally, I'm not a fan of kind of spot coloring. You know, it was kind of a 19 eighties wedding wedding thing. You know, the bride with the one red flower or the person walking down the street with red umbrella on Been in this instance, it's kind of it kind of becomes more of a graphic image when you do it. They still not favor technique combine, but I think it this is addressed issues. So it's kind of the same thing we've been talking about. You know, we need to delineate between what's the focal point? What's the background If you look as well, kind of. The contrast has changed. It's going down, kind of going down a little bit of background, a little bit darker. I would have brought up. I think the contrast a bit more here. So if you're gonna selectively alter the airy, you could have made that popular a bit more. The pink believe the pink in the black and white doesn't bother me a little bit. Still, I would probably do. I would probably change the cast of the color a little bit. Not sure more, maybe towards a bit of a green or something, but just a bit distracting. Yeah, yeah, it's certainly effective. And it certainly again it picks up the issues that way. Picked up. How about this one? My immediate thought I haven't seen the after version of this with my immediate thought is I was struggled to process discuss The light is quite harsh, so it's either lit with a flash or torture or something. So my immediate concern, what would I do with this too sympathetically. Post prices it given It's got hard, like on. So what do you think we might do? Could be nice. Black and white, black and white would be an option in terms of the brightness of the image. Where is your eye drawn? Other than to flower flower. Lease that other leaf next to it. Right? Right, right. Okay. What about this? Above in section two units doing here, right. No committees. That kind of like my eyes drawn down here. So I'm hoping that some kind of vignette comes into flight. It's a kind of focusing backing into this leaf so quick there black and white are quite kind of quite like color, Any medicine. So that kind of works, Isn't it color still there? Kind of a cold way new on. So the tarmac is looking kind of more neutral this time. It's kind of making a play of the fact that it's a little hard, so it kind of looks like it's a great spot now, rather than just uniformly Hard line is a very heavy vignette, so I just that want to be successful. I still think the area down these leads down the bottom here is a bit distracting. I'd be tempted. Techno exact. Which leaf were you referring to? The very bright one. Just to the right of the cream won't beyond it. Yeah. Okay. I think I know. It's difficult to say. I have been good. It's the least being honest. And I would have personally isolated the leaf and shot it on its own. It's kind of want to do with beach stuff as well as its probably more habitual in anything else, but yeah, so that's a definite improvement. Yeah. Okay. What would you do this one 12th rule. We need to lighten up front side of the apple. 12th rule 12th bolt. Oh, food pills in the ground right there. I thought was a three second. I think we need to lighten up this side of the apple. Decide? Yeah. Yeah. Are we gonna were gonna speculate about whether the that it was repairs? We're gonna guess about that on this crumb off something there? Yes. On the above. No, on the below. Okay, I'll say yes. And by okay, I'm trusted. So what we're gonna do with this? The apples a little bit dark isn't in comparison to the background. Yeah, um, this is kind of one of those ones as well. With vignette Vignette. If there was brighter than a vignette might work or if you did kind of the thing, we do the orange, which is kind of the reverse thing. Then maybe there was gonna look brighter. Let's have a look. Is gonna stand color? Yes. Yes, I think you don't think so. Anything's going black and white and black. I think I know. I also have another thought. Also is that What if they did a play on the window with the cast of the light? There's a bit of a red cast coming down. No. Oh, yeah. Him. Yes, Yeah, yeah. I think it's gonna stand color, but we want to sweat the way we're all wrong Next. I love it when Role room. Right. So, again, this is what we're talking about earlier, isn't it? In fact, the image yesterday on off when my daughter's jumping change the color of the scene. So this is the same thing. The background is kind of marginally darker, but the separation there's more contract a little bit more contrast in the apple, but not march. But the key thing is a separation between the apple in the background. So, interestingly going, We're just on the color wheel. What color is the background? What color is it now? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. What comes the right. So we've got opposite colors here. Um, so it kind of doesn't stand next. Well, that it stands out of that. And the kind of the casing is the apple hasn't really changed much. No, no. Great deal balls. Kind of. The point was making yesterday when we went through the shot. My daughter in the sea. What has happened is a big increases in apparent separation between the background. Because you've now got these opposite colors, so it's kind of a lot more effective. Can you belt about Did work, OK, I thought the Shadow had changed his world on the other, but it hasn't No, no. The images jumping about because of the way jumping about. But in essence, the only real change here is maybe the background color dark on the apple call Tiny bit like her. But the big difference is the color again. It just shows, you know, changing the color can increase the contrast. But its visual contrast not contrast in terms of brightness. Okay, here's, uh, hammer on stuff where your thoughts on this phone this has a lot of potential for good contrast with those washers and mm, crunchy texture. Yeah. Yeah. My immediate reaction is this one is to want the top and bottom to be way, way darker. Or maybe crop square. What about Big Junior? What about punching orange More? Yeah. You could certainly bring color up. And Brandon an extra I handle. Yeah, you could take the technique. Attacked the color of the green day as well. They could find that candidates and nothing Eso it would kind of just been long a crime with the orange. Which kind of work for this? The tiles could be great. Shrivel up. What? We're guessing that I'm seeing this one. Crunchy George. Crunchy orange. What about Crop is going to crop? Yes, at the top, but I think it might be I'm guessing heavy vignette like me. Wrong? Yeah. Good guess. Yes. Is sort of radio. Yeah, way has been yet, but again, it's kind of using. It's a lot darker, but what you got again is a color contrast, although the colors this time closer together kind of more complimentary. So you've got magenta and orange. Uh, so they're not too far apart the color wheel. But it's certainly a lot more effective than that. And again, if you're thinking about if you're thinking about this, has been lit. This kind of you can imagine. There there's the big soft, like pointing down. Or is there something daylight? Yeah, I became that was a success is World by the next one got the two together, and so that's kind of an ugly looking, a little things that, but what you've got again here is if you color to separate the object from the background. So no, not so much in the wings, and you kind of got his red really coming out. I'm a decent trend. The background on the what is that? Is it both most? Yeah. Okay, so again, it's a social principles. There's a little bit of a vineyard damages a little bit darker top maybe around the edges, but changing the color to emphasize the object again. It's successful. Yeah, like that works. Yeah, actually, kind of works quite nice. is addictive, cause world isn't too together like that. It's really nice. I like the edit. Yeah, Yeah. Subtle. Works nicely. Black and white. Uh, a little water droplets at a lot of that. Yeah. What about the bottom right corner as well? You know, it's not got quite a writer. Yeah, And again Way talked about taking name taking emphasis wife from the edges. In this case, that kind of That's a kind of starting point to get into the mutual. Yeah, I agree. Not merciful. That's very striking. I need to see my immediate reaction is this one is the bird's head is too dark when the birds had is too dark in the original scene here as well. Um, but whereas I could kind of see the bird's eye in the top picture, I'm not sure I can in the bottom, but we're kind of looking at, um, little dried packs here, but certainly in principle, I think that's very striking. Um, I mean, just to know how that was edited. If I'm dead, media is arraigned. Yeah, very strong. This is our friend from Antarctica that Sebastian is best in high looking good. If a little cold. Oh, he looks even called the name. All right. We should have done the What would you do that kind of that works world, isn't it, Mr? Yeah, I think probably This is a universal dropping color and a bit in increasing contrast. Benefit of taking the color at this one is in terms of the background. You know, the little orange hearts are kind of a bit distracting in that shop. Um, what else has he done? A Z don't something for the least. You think coming to think he's probably done a bit of selective in its the eyes as well, Kind of sparkling of their particular night. Spoke with us on here to the whole images. Bright if nothing is done, some work for the eyes as well, but that kind of certainly conveys on it. Was he not enjoying the presentation when he took this picture Just really outside? Well, I believe that Sebastian said that it was actually two degrees. They were having a heat wave, so he was able Teoh get out and not be fully covered right when the only phrase marginal while he was doing it well yet also thinks an effective emission world for doing. He did raise the eye color a little. He did his there. Is it if he raised the color or did the contrast? Yeah. He said, raise the eye color a little, right? Yeah, right. Chicken coop door. What we're gonna do here? I hope the red in that would drops one. I think it's dominating the image. And I feel like I want the hats for the handle to have played a greater role. Until you come to want this structure here to get significant, more significant in this bit Possibly punch up the green seven. That white areas. Well, uh, yeah. Have a look. Yeah, yeah. Actually happening with the greens there. Um, it's always just a massive increase in saturation. Or it could have bean on It. Could have been tone Matt sharpening too. Yeah, it certainly becomes a lot more graphic in that way. Andi. It takes away from the bits you wanted your attention to. Um, it's certainly striking and colorful. I think I might have gone along similar lines to you. Andi maybe gotten down ventures. He said, if you want to increase the drama, it's donate. Yep. Okay, This is my self image. Does this look like it's got any potential I've seen? I've seen the final version so I could be disparaging about original. What might we do with this? Any thoughts? I'm gonna guess a play on the color. I'm not sure what's gonna go. There's a lot of he had a neutral palette of color. Yeah, I can see it flipping to something. I guess he's black and white. Maybe. Oh, let's go home. Didn't see that coming. You know, it's kind of seven. You great improvement. Yeah, that's a really interesting short. And that's kind of like, Yeah, I was looking at that. I thought, man, I'd throw that one away. I call that kind of call that nothing show Ray is kind of, and that's interesting. Texture. Kind of. What makes it is what is not only the texture, but coming. The contrast. Now you have you got blues on they are. Maybe that's grand. Maybe it's a bit of blue, and maybe that's I want to know. Make a little bit greens tickled to tell on a but you kind of know you got a lot more definition across the across the image, So Yeah, it's a definite success. Wiltondale. I'm going to stop him. Minutes, maybe. Look, a few of these after the break. I think we're running slightly over time. I'm not sure anymore. There are left breast guys for a few more. So if we have a quick what? 15 minutes? Cool. All right, so we're gonna have a 15 minute break. Oh, can't you ask people to think on this is gonna be difficult for about 6000 people want to do something different. But is this some specific extra technique we haven't discussed that people would likes to cover today? Because tomorrow is largely, actually are will be doing some subsequent vice production afterwards. Kind now is the last chance to introduce new first shot topics. Lamp color is one option. Yeah. You wanna look at that color, right? We'll definitely do something on, like color, but maybe one other quick tour or something. And hopefully the dental suggestions you know nothing about

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a Creativelive Student
 

Ive been following davids work and tutorials for around a year now...well ever since i took up photography as a hobby. Im a lifetime member to chromasia.com and have been working through his tutorials when time allows. There is no fast track approach to this subject but i wanted the best advice i could get. Ive always found david very approachable over the internet and is always willing to offer advice on questions ive had regarding all manner of photography questions, being a noob. Whilst the tutorials are very comprehensive and well written sometimes its hard to digest this by yourself. So when i heard that he was presenting a three day course over the net. I jumped (well not quite more like sat down) at the chance to make sure i was able to watch the course (didnt manage that either). Sometimes its better to have a monkey see monkey do approach to walk you through different aspects of photoshop. And after the first day of the tutorial, so much information sunk in more so than it did sat reading through the tutorials. Although i didnt get to actively sit and watch the remainder of the last two days i did purchase the course so i can refer back to it time and time again. I can highly recommend this course, its concise, well planned and enjoyable course to watch. When you subcribe to the course you even get the files david walked through so you can practice yourself. I cant really praise the whole package enough...but its an invaluable reference course and couple this with chromasia membership you have a package that will dramatically improve your processed photos, the way you think about composition and importantly your camera settings! Great stuff

a Creativelive Student
 

David’s Dramatic Post Production Workshop is an excellent source of both education and inspiration. The Photoshop instruction is excellent and was my primary reason for watching the workshop. I was very surprised by how thought provoking the shooting sessions in the alley were and the lasting influence it will have on my own photography. Firstly the preparation for the session in the alley was interesting – having a goal and a purpose in mind. The fact that they are producing interesting work to illustrate the points and techniques in a rather dull alley helps emphasize the learning. On my next shoot after watching the workshop I definitely made adjustments in my approach. The discussion, examples and instruction on the goal of making an image more dramatic is very inspiring. It really makes me step back and review my own work to see how I can approach it from a different perspective

a Creativelive Student
 

The workshop was a great opportunity to learn to be more purposeful and intentional about the creative process at the post-production stage. I found the second day of the workshop – where David goes into his own approach in Photoshop – to be the most valuable for me. I look forward to putting this new found wisdom into practice into my own work. Thanks David!

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