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it is my pleasure to welcome back for day three to the creative live studio. Kirk will claim. Yes, again. I appreciate being here on the third day. Thank you all for sticking it out with me coming all the way back to this event. We are gonna have a lot of fun today. OK? I have let me think all kinds of fun stuff to talk about and to do. First of all right off the bat, we're gonna just review really fast what's gonna happen today if our as the whole workflow scene. The other thing is, I want to add something to the list. But we kind of signed out last night and said, Think about it, if you could come up with something, has been asked multiple times. So I'm gonna put it on the list, and that is proofs on the list. So because the per the making of those proofs happens in this stage did not bring approved book with me, but I will show you what the images look like. And then you're gonna get it. You're gonna say, Oh, I see what he means when he says proofs. So that's something I wanted to a...

dd there. And so since you all were chatting it up right now, online if there's something else As I go through this list that you don't want to add, I got room for maybe two or three spots. If you wanna throw some things on the list, I will be happy to throw those things on the list. The things you know, we got saturation when you look at my images, you look at this one on the wall here, and you look at the one of the senior boy underneath the water and some of the images You've seen me po post on the key notes. People tell me all the time how colorful my images are. Well, you know, how do you do that, Kirk? Well, we're gonna talk about that. How long does it take you to retouch? This was something that when we were at dinner last night, you all kept asking that how long it takes me so long. Russell tipped on it today watch TV and did three images. Well, how many images that I shoot yesterday, the Joe he added up. It was around. I don't know. Well, there was six and six. And then there was the third girl and it was someone the roof. And so I don't know, it was 20 something images. I Russell got up this morning before I came here and retouched all of them. So they're all done. But I'm gonna show you how I did that. Um, someone asked about retouching. And what do you do with high key? I think that also reminds me of some of the images you might be seeing on my Facebook page are You may see them also on my website Katie photo dot com where the images is white, white, white, white. The subject is white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white. And then there's just a little hint of detail in that it's usually a head shot. And so I get that question like, how do you do it? Well, we're gonna show you my settings for uploading and for printing. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about what happens when it's too grainy. How come when I'm sending stuff to the lab or whatever having a friend, it seemed to be too grainy and eyes this to me is very, very critical to the whole process, showing exactly how I retouch eyes and what I do. It's a little trick, a little secret, if you will, about that many times. If you want to know what a photographer did, how they lit the scene, zoom in on the eyes because it will show you a lot of times you can see the photographer in the eyes if it's done really good. Well, the problem with that little trick that I just told you about is that in my case, most all of the time, the eyes air retouched and enhance. And sometimes I move the catch light around and all kinds of things. So you really can't do that with my stuff. I get people who email me and message me and go Look, I was looking at the eyes and I noticed you always have the box or the light here. It's like, Well, the problem is that that could have been fake, you know? But I wanted to look real, but it could have been think. Anyway, So we're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about the best print vendors online. Excuse me? My ordering ordering catalog that I show Joe, was that Yes. First day I showed it to you. And how actually make one of those the parts for the customer. And then I just added that to the list. Proofs. Okay. Before you want toe, add some stuff now or we didn't. Someone asked about, like, formatting for Facebook and social media. Has that been workflow? That sort of gonna happen about about Let me think Right here. OK, I think exporting Monica. Wow. Okay, you mentioned Bridge, so and I use light room. So bridge versus you that way, not write it down. It's one of my key points. Is it okay? I'm really interested in bridge. You're gonna teach us how to do our right? Our own actions? Yes. Don't you have to write it down? We're gonna wait. We're gonna go through the whole action palette and really, really, really hopefully talk about actions. Great. Yes. We're talking about some detail like a win on your own. I see in your website went on your prints or proofs or album. When does your local come up? It's like because you have your Logan. I saw in one off you advertised as your signature is something that, like you know, what, you don't want me taking out off my logo from your dreams is my signature almost like a summer famous painter. So when do you put or when you don't pour toe this kind of stuff I woke. I will just answer that right now. The advertisement, the senior brochure that I showed on the first day I made a comment about that about how the Cavey is proof that it is a real Kurt vocal ing print. Okay, And that is that is a way of me handling the well. I don't want that kv on the bottom of my my wallets. It's kind of like, you know, going into a department store and saying, You know, I want a Nike shoe, but I don't want that check on the side. It doesn't work like that. Nike doesn't sell shoes without check on the side. It's what they do, right? Okay, so it's the same thing. And so my way of handling that was to say, Well, if you want an authentic Kirk vote claim print, it's gotta have that little cavey on it, and it only happens on the Wallace. I don't do that on any of the larger prints or a pretends 57 Anything like that. However, anything that you hang on the wall except 11 before teens. So 16 by 20 and larger, I actually physically hands on. And I do that. That's the next question. And that's asking right now is what do you signed your Brent with? Okay. Well, all I did. You go to Office Depot and OfficeMax. Any one of those office see type stores, and they make a Sharpie gold. There's a Sharpie gold pin, and I bought that, and it signs Prince really nice. Like, and it's in gold. They make a seldom one too, if you prefer the silver color. So couple technique questions like sharpening. If you could talk about that in, um, also how long you spend on each image. Okay, how long we got about already? All right. And major retouching like a changing shape of arms and body weight. That's what we'll call that liquid. Oh, yeah. All right. Good Watermark logos. How do I do it is the question, or why or will you be covering that in terms of exporting settings No. I mean, typically, would I do with my watermark type thing? Like if I'm putting something on Facebook? Or maybe if I'm making a sticky album or Inamoto are one of those types of things and it needs to have my watermark on it. Here's the deal with that. I am kind of not anti watermark. Understand why it's done. But there it's on Lee time I do. That is, if it's I'm throwing a teaser out there, you know, like I'm putting one image on Facebook. Well, it's gonna have that watermark on it, Okay, But it's not gonna go across the face or anything silly like that. But the way I make I, just when we talk about creating an action, that'll you'll get it. You kind of say, Oh, well, I could make that part of inaction and then just include that as part of my work flow is running the action at some stage. So yeah, it's kind of going It's not gonna be talked about specifically, but around the block, Yeah, that's good. The ruling. We're getting a lot of questions. One characteristic I think of your work is just amazing color. People want to know how your father? Yeah. There, you guys, We're gonna be covered in one second. Got it? Yeah. Just reminded everyone who's asking about packaging. And we talked about that in detail. On day one. Kirk had a really great overview of packaging versus ala carte and his specific way of clustering images so you wouldn't check out date one for that. All right. Good deal. Follow another question is just about the work with the word workflow for me are going to talk about. I know that's gonna show step by step what you do. But like a who is learning or starting now, what is your suggestion for? Because normally you automate yourself to do the same step over and over and over, so you. If you do this skinny first, then your shop in your you never shop your eyes before your skinny. Always ultimate yourself to do slapped by step, I'm going to show you what you need to do to force yourself toe work, step by step by step system. Oh, yes, definitely. We're talking about that. Okay, So another thing I thought we would do is just for a moment. Review yesterday just is a little bit. And so one of the things we talk a doctor about was all of the different equipment that I used and why I used that equipment. Another thing we did was talk. Talk about was hitting the five points of the face with light. Those five point to the face was the forehead down the nose, the cheeks and the chin. And I don't know if you remember that, but I said that if if the face is turned to the right, my right, then the main light is going to be on the right wherever the nose goes. That's typically where that main light is gonna be. If I pose them where my where the my face is turned to the left, my left, then the main light is going to be on this side. And I kind of look at that if the cussed subject is is laying down and the noses mawr upward and that was where that main light is gonna come from or upward. So you know, I'm doing things like that now. The second I do all make all those rules. I hope you saw me yesterday. Break him and That's one of the things a bunch of friends of mine get together all the time. And we talk about that concept that, you know, you almost have to know the rules, be proficient at the rules, and then you get to break the rules. So don't break the rules because you don't know the rules. Break the rules because you know what you're doing. And as a result, that is what adds these images, these interesting images that break the rules and at the same time work. So that was a little bit for his light hit in the face. We talked about the two Z rule, and it's one of my favorites. I'll come back all the way to the front so you can see what I'm talking about If a subject is straight on on the scene, and it's boring to look at because everything that they have two of two feet, two knees, hips, elbows, shoulders, hands, eyes all across the board on the same plane. But to make it more interesting, you could bend one knee, which then causes the hip to shift. Now the knees are at a different angle. Then you could cause the shoulders to shift. You could put one hand high one hand low tipped the head one way. Now, of course, that's not good for guy poses. But that's good for girl poses. And we did talk about that as far as guy poses and girl poses. Guys always need to look masculine. That means the head needs to tip towards the shoulder that is the farthest from the camera. Where is a girl can go both ways. A girl could be masculine or a girl can be feminine, which is where the head tips to the shoulder. That's the closest to the camera, and so we talked a little bit about that to Z rule studio photography. We talked about that yesterday about the right way to light someone in the wrong way to light someone, and I showed some right techniques and some wrong techniques, and we had a good time doing that. We went on the roof and did natural life photography, and I would make I would like to say that the roof images are surprisingly very good. I just did not expect him to come out looking that good, and they really are kind of cool stuff. I didn't shoot a whole lot up there because in real life I would not have shot a whole bunch of There have been maybe two or three images, but the ones that I did pretty slick. You're gonna see him here in a little while, probably during the second segment. We're going to start showing the images from yesterday anyway. And then we talked about underwater photography like, you see the guy, they're one of the little tricks. I threw it. Everybody, because I don't want to see you get in debt. I do not want to see you run out there and hot the world up so that you can do underwater photography and then in your area. Figure out hopes it's not selling. Was that maybe to get a inexpensive camera, little point and shoot type camera that is already underwater capable? Do a couple of images like that with some models or your kids or or something? Put him out there, see if it's interesting, see if people want it. If they do, maybe you could upgrade and get maybe like a cannon G. Siri's camera with a housing get a little bit better images, it starts paying for itself. It starts being something that more and more people want. They're coming in. They're wanting wall portrait's. Okay, then let's move up to the canon of SLR type camera with housing that you purchase, whether whether that's there's a ton of a microlight Aqua Tech doesn't just a bunch of housings out there get that housing. But, you know, that's gonna be expensive. I'm just I don't want you to be shocked when you started looking in that and shopping it. But don't don't just die, then. Unless Bill Bill my buddy Bill Gates, do it, get the good one. He can afford it. Okay, But if you're like a regular Joe Blow photographer Okay, then then you know, one step at a time. Baby steps, man. Baby steps. All right, So those were some of the things that we talked about yesterday, a bit of a review as a reminder. The reason I wanted to review all that was because again, I'm not gonna go all the way back to the first day. But the first day was marketing. Okay, We had toe have that in place. We had to get people in the door before we can ever take their picture