Lessons
Day 1
1Day 1 Pre-Show Banter
18:50 2Introduction
33:25 3What Makes a Dramatic Image?
19:34 4Before and After part 1
35:33 5Before and After part 2
17:23 6Adobe Camera RAW
44:25 7BONUS: Upcoming Alley Shoot
07:09BONUS: What can you do to a pixel?
05:06 9Working with Example Files
55:00 10Preparing for Alley Shoot
11:35 11Photo Shoot in Alley
1:17:00 12BONUS: Homework Assignment
01:22Day 2
13Day 2 Pre-Show Banter
06:33 14Reviewing Yesterday's Images
22:02 15Adjusting with Curves
28:55 16Adding Masks
39:25 17Student Photo: Orb
26:36 18Black and White
27:09 19Audience Q&A
15:37 20Student Photo: Toy Car
10:57 21Black and White Portraiture
17:57 22Tone and Colour Correction
22:02 23Student Image: Journal
14:39 24Audience Q&A
10:08 25Bonus: Internet Homework
19:05 26LAB Color
21:03 27Student Image: Girl on Phone
13:06 28BONUS: LIttle Girl in LAB
07:18 29Wrap Up & Q&A
12:10Day 3
30Day 3 Pre-Show Banter
05:50 31Introduction to HDR Photography
17:50 32How to Shoot HDR
51:55 33How to Process HDR
18:16 34Hands On: Shooting for HDR
52:13 35Processing HDR in Photomatix
1:08:40 36Student HDR Example
27:28 37Thanks + Credits
06:18 38Student Image: New York City
36:23 39Final Review
16:52Lesson Info
BONUS: What can you do to a pixel?
What's that on the screen? What's that? Blue Square? What by using it to represent was it looked like if it was a lot smaller? No, your eyes imagine it's very small. That's one of the things we went with. One Redstone image pixel. It's a pixel. There we go. We got a light blue pixel. So what can you do to a pixel? What can you do to it if I gave you this file? She's a woman pixel file. What can you do to that? Pixel changes, color changes, color change its use. Uh, here's the times. Color, dominance, brightness, yet limits of brightness. So two things you can do to pixel you can change its color. I can change its brightness. So there we go. I edited that pixel and its now darker on browner than that pixel. Okay, so we have two pixels. What can you do to two pixels? The same things. Pretty much the same things in a different city areas. I could edit the pixels individually so I could edit the blue pixel changes color and brightness, architect of the brown pixel Jones golden brightness. ...
But I can oh, I can operate on them to change something between the two of them so I can increase the contrast between two. So there's original. I could make the brown dark blue lighter. I'm or I can change the color either individually or between. Right? Well, that's it. That's Photoshopped. That is all you can do in folks shop. Well, you've got two pixels are 25 million of them. All you can do is change the brightness of the pixels or the color of the pixels. Are the relationship between the pixels, Nothing else. So this is kind of wild college demystifying fudge shop. Because that's in essence, every single tool within Photoshopped does that. It doesn't matter what tool is. You can't do anything else to a pixel. I'm sincerely hoping you can. You can delete your spies, but crappy games. But that's it. There's nothing else you can do. I really think that significant thinking that Fred Shop that none of the techniques will discuss it difficult on their all about changing the color changing brightness. So then, if you get if you get that over with that you just got ranging talks with doing that, then you can come strapped being creative. You can look at the scene and think, How don't want to change it Kind of one of the problems when you start a food shop is probably a lot people myself included. You buy the magazines and you buy the books on the magazines are kind of the worst, because to give you a tip or a trick So you get this thing and you go, Yeah, cool. What else can I do with this on? Does nothing else to do it exists this this thing, that you can do it. It's a trick that you've got and then you end up a whole range of tricks, but no idea how to put any other tricks together. So the more I teach fried shot with similar I try and make it on. I'm making about the process and the thinking and the creative thought processes that go behind it. Not the trick, because the tricks a nice you know, once you get a great workflow, having an extra trick is good, but having just a box full of tricks is useless. So to go back to the analogy about sculpting, if you if we if we come here today to learn about sculpture off? I don't know. The next two weeks I have along eso I teach you everything about marble. So you understand the chemistry mile of the geology of marble. It's 10 south strengthen all arrested. Then we move on to hammers and chisels. So you understand about the different natures of the chisels and the shapes of the heads and strengthened metal on. Then we do all that. So you're a world expert. Marble hammers and chisels and right? You done off you go. Would you feel that? You've done what you came to do? You came here to learn how to be a sculptor. You didn't sculpt anything. The hammers and chills are irrelevant. The tools that you used to get somewhere else. The marble is kind of irrelevant. You need You need to understand, marble, You don't apiece and marble that you have been a hammer in. The whole thing crumbles on the floor. You don't want tools going to break. You need tools, they understand how to use. But you're not gonna be, you know, create Michelangelo's David before what you know about his marble hammers and chisels. Just as well. It's the same for photo shop. First shop is about changing brightness. It's about changing color on its in service of a creative vision or an aesthetic intention. Or you've done this already this morning. You sound gone through all those images of May and all of you have picked out all the problems. You maybe didn't support all of them. Maybe, you know, two or three of you to become a ones are not identified. But between you, you could do it. And it wasn't different was it? Didn't have to go away and think about each image raft now, whereupon drills worry about it. It was a simple process. We looked at these images. We identify what was wrong with them or you need to do now is moved towards fixing that kind of makes sense.
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Ratings and Reviews
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!