A couple hours with Angela

masterofone

Our "plan", was lets just start shooting and see what happens.


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Hackbone

Nice work and really love #4 but a longer lens to not distort her hand. Got to steal this one, thanks.

masterofone

Thanks. If you really like it, you should be able to replace my watermark with yours in about 3 seconds. ;-)

jpc

Great set! Excellent processing and posing. Very nice.

zoomer

Good stuff. The only one I don't really like is 6.
Love that first shot, and the 5th one.
I like 2 but the crop feels awkward, crop well into the visible foot or right above it maybe.
Nice creative work.

masterofone

Thanks. The crop on that shot is due to the fact that that is the only shot I took on that blanket. The blanket was too small so I said forget it. When I reviewed the images I really liked it so I went with what I had. You can see around the edges where I had to clone in more blanket.

Sam

Looks like you both had fun shoot...............nice!

Sam

masterofone

Thanks for looking. I always have fun shooting.

xposurepro

Love #2

New Hope Studios

I really love your post-processing techniques... I'd love to know what you did if you are willing to share. The post-processing has a Norman Rockwell feel to it... I have always loved his paintings. Please share! Nice job.

masterofone

New Hope Studios wrote: »

I really love your post-processing techniques... I'd love to know what you did if you are willing to share. The post-processing has a Norman Rockwell feel to it... I have always loved his paintings. Please share! Nice job.

Thank you.
Aperture 3 is my primary editing tool. Everything starts there. 1st exposure, 2nd white balance and then curves levels and black point if needed. Next I will work on the skin and remove a pimple or nose hair or stubble and do some smoothing if needed. (not that anybody I shoot would ever need such fixes) Now is when I would play with the color and change saturation, luminance, DEFINITION etc. Finally the image is sharpened if needed. At this point I am still working with a RAW image which in my case is a .NEF file. It is important that all the major work is done while the image is a raw file because in the next step the image will be converted to a .TIFF and I will not be able to fine tune the image nearly as well once this happens.

Images 2, 7, and 8 were made in Aperture 3 only. At this point the other images went into an editing tool called Topaz Adjust. In topaz I can make dramatic and obviously unnatural changes to exposure, details, sharpness and color. This is what produces the rockwell effect as you described it. I don't really have a workflow to share within topaz but I usually start with exposure and from there it is just a free for all until I see what I like for that image. If I have a series of similar images I will create a preset and once all the work is done in aperture I can then just drag the image into topaz and hit the "angela with scarf" preset and have a finished image.


basic editing in aperture 3




a touch of topaz

New Hope Studios

Thanks Brian. I'll have to check out Topaz.