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VIDEO REPLAY: Photoshop Lighting Effects YouTube LIVE

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VIDEO REPLAY: Photoshop Lighting Effects YouTube LIVE

Last Friday (13th August) at 8pm I hosted a LIVE Broadcast over on my YouTube Channel going through a couple of Photoshop Lighting Effects Tutorial PLUS a workaround for the Colour Grading technique I shared for anyone who doesn’t use Adobe Premiere Pro.

The broadcast ran for about 35 / 40 minutes or so and felt great to be back online, seeing and interacting with everyone in the chat.

The set up I use for the LIVE Broadcasts is so good in that amongst many other things, I’m able to bring comments up onto the screen which makes it so much more interactive.

Anyway, if you weren’t able to catch it LIVE, here’s a REPLAY where I’ve also

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EASY Colour Grading HACK in Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop

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EASY Colour Grading HACK in Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop

If there’s one thing that has a BIG impact on your recognisable style, it’s how you colour grade your images.

There are so many ways to do this and a lot of the time it boils down to personal preference, however, imagine if there was a really easy way to take the colour from your favourite movie or tv programme and add that into your pictures!

Well, here’s a hack that I worked out to do exactly that with just one click!

The technique first of all makes use of Adobe's

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Mark 'Billy' Billingham (SAS: Who Dares Wins)

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Mark 'Billy' Billingham (SAS: Who Dares Wins)

Back in May 2019 I was at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, Wiltshire photographing and filming Mark Billy Billingham (former UK Special Forces and star of TV’s SAS: Who Dares Wins and Who Dares Wins Australia) whilst he was on his ‘An Audience with…’ tour.

Having met up with ‘Billy’ early in the afternoon, we set up on the stage hours before the audience streamed in to take some portrait and promo shots as it was shortly before his first book The Hard Way was released…

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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

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Ford Mustang Photo Shoot (Behind the Scenes)

Seeing as I’ve revamped my website and also tidied up previous blog posts, I just wanted to make sure I included this one from early in 2020 when I spent a day with one of my closest friends, Brian Dukes, and photographed his incredible Ford Mustang.

We photographed it on a former airfield which saw action during World War 2, and is now owned by another great friend of mine Tom as it forms part of his farmland.

You’ll see in the video below, how I lit the image and that was by taking a serious of photographs with a flash positioned at different parts of the car; these images were

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The Invisible Black Background

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The Invisible Black Background

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been putting a lot of time into not just revamping my website, but moving it to a completely new hosting platform (thank you SquareSpace). I’m going to be writing a post about why I’ve done this, but needless to say I am VERY happy I finally made the (much needed) move.

Anyway, as part of the moving process I connected my Google Analytics account to the new site and what was really interesting to see was that ‘Invisible Black Background’ was still ranking high up there as one of the search terms used by folks and that lead them to my site. If you didn’t know, ‘Invisible Black Background’ refers to a photograph technique I named and that was featured in the New York Times, and is basically a way to make it look as though

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Create Sunlight Quick and Easy in Photoshop

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Here’s a short video showing how you can add or enhance Realistic Sunlight in your pictures QUICKLY and EASILY using Photoshop.

The technique makes use of a Gradient Fill and shows you how to use Gradients to create 3 individual circles that make up the sun along with how to resize them and use Blend Modes for ultimate realism.

Hope you like it,
Glyn

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Sony A1: Is it all hype?

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Sony A1: Is it all hype?

Following on from a post last week, here’s a full length (10 minute) video where I go through ‘hands’ on use of the NEW Sony A1 and how I lit and photographed a recent surfer portrait on the beach at Saunton Sands at around 12pm on a VERY bright, sunny day…

KIT:

Sony A1

Sony 85mm f/1.4 G Master

Westcott FJ400 (LINK)

SETTINGS:

f/1.4 , ISO 50, 1/8000sec in High Speed Sync

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Filming for Sony with the Sony A7SII and DJI Ronin RS2

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Love this Behind the Scenes Capture Mark Baber from Sony grabbed of me yesterday when I was filming Jack (Surfer) running on Saunton Sands beach for part of yesterday’s content with the Sony A7SIII.

The Behind the Scenes looks like something from a Benny Hill comedy sketch but OH MY GOD am I happy with the result!

First time getting some proper use out of my DJI Ronin RS2 Gimbal and I’m blown away with how it smooths out the movement.

Happy Days!

© Glyn Dewis 2024