The Dark and Moody look is extremely popular at the moment especially on social media; it's a great look that can add drama and impact to your pictures.
Here's how I create it and how to make it as a preset so that you can quickly and easily use it again and again in Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC, Lightroom Mobile and Camera Raw.
Here's a SIMPLE and VERY EFFECTIVE technique for creating a Black Background behind your subject when you don't have one ... indoors or outdoors using just your camera and one flash!
This is my UPDATED Invisible Black Background Technique v2.0 π π·
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00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Kit Needed
00:55 - Shutter Speed Flash
01:31 - High Speed Sync
01:52 - Camera Settings
02:50 - Aperture + Flash
03:37 - Turn on HSS
04:12 - Turn on the Flash
04:46 - Options
05:25 - Recap
06:05 - The Problem with HSS
06:29 - Why not use a Neutral Density (ND) Filter?
07:46 - Dealing with Reflections
I was WRONG!
Here's the correct review of the NEW Sony A7RV along with recommended settings for photographing Birds that made a BIG DIFFERENCE! Plus the camera finally has Focus Bracketing, a Flip / Tilt Screen AND Artifiical Intelligence!
But would I buy it? π€
GREAT Portraits start with the person in front of the camera feeling relaxed.
BUT how do you help someone to be relaxed?
Here's 5 ways that I use ALL the time and work a treat!
Introduction
Connection
Slow Down
Eye Contact
At and Past
Show Them
Listen
The 5 Tips
MMFI
Perfect, Accurate Colour is vitally important in both Photography and Video.
In this short video I show how to use the Calibrite ColorChecker Passport Duo to achieve exactly this; a simple process that involves 1 extra photograph and just a few clicks in Lightroom β¦
With all the recent BIG updates I'm now able to do a lot more of the SAME things in Lightroom that only used to be possible in Photoshop BUT Quicker and Easier ! In this video I show 3 examples ... working on skin , changing color and creating new backgrounds and lighting effectsβ¦
Love Movies? Love Lightroom? Here's how you can QUICKLY and EASILY take the colour from a movie and add it to your own pictures using the Color Grading Panel β¦
Lightroom recently received a BIG update with version 12.0 , BUT there's one update I WISH Adobe would add in ... an Amount Slider in the Colour Grading Tab.
In this video I explain WHY by using the Color Grading to add finishing touches to a photograph PLUS show a HACK for giving even more control β¦
Did you see the dog portrait I did a couple of weeks back?
If not, this is the one.
The dog belongs to my friend Trigga, and I I took it after Iβd finished taking his portraitβ¦
So hereβs a video showing all the editing / retouching I did in both Lightroom and Photoshop β¦
Hope you like it, but as always, if you have any questions, just post them in the comments section below and Iβll make sure to reply.
Cheers,
Glyn
Jump Cuts ... Love them or Hate them? Great when used creatively but sometimes unavoidable ... or are they?
Here's 60 seconds showing how to fix them in Premiere Pro CC ππ»
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