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marcinwuu — Postprocessing Step-by-step
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This is a step-by-step of 15min post I did for the portrait workshop I did last year. It's crude, but there's pretty much everything I do normally (with more care). The photo itself is nothing special, but it's good enough for the purpose of this "tutorial". The gif animation was made by one of the workshop attendands. If you speak Polish, or are willing to subject yourself to the horrors of autotranslation algorithm, the original thread explaining each step can be seen here:klubkm.pl/forum/showthread.php…
It starts at post #94.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
For some strange reason, the "Tutorials" category doesn't allow gif animations, so it has to go into "animation" which is bloody stupid if you ask me.
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awesome result!
"Firestarter" Prodigy it's good track for fuel concentration XD
Which foto equipment you can advice to buy for a start to creating photo like that (as i know you don't like canon)
Really like your style, It's fantastic!
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This particular photo I shot with Sony A77 camera with Sony 85 2.8 lens. But it isn't a particularly good photo. It was shot in a hurry, as part of a portrait workshop I led. I had the camera on lease from Sony and wasn't too comfortable with it. Overall I prefer shorter focal lenghts for APS-C sized cameras. The postprocess is also not that good, it was very rough deal done just for the purpose of this demonstration. But the camera and postprocessing are the least important parts of a portrait. What you really need is a stunning subject and proper lighting. Which in this case means two light sources - a barebulb strobe mounted directly above the subject's head, and a strong constant light directly in front of the subject (in this case it was a ringlight). The constant light is important because it makes the subject's irises contract and brings the texture of the iris out.
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Huge thanks for a rich answer!
If you will ever publish somewhere like on tutplus Tutorial how-to postprocess like that, I would love to buy it first!
Is medium-format and Ektar a magic answer for a great photo, since light configured good?
And about Canon, you don't like it because "mainstream", or there's other things? (I've used 5d Mark II, 6D, 450D with various lenses) Really appreciate your opinion, because everybody tell one same thing: "if you have to choose - choose between Canon and Nikon" — it looks silly.
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You know, me and Canon it's kind of a silly story.
In the days of analog I was shooting Minoltas, so naturally, when Minolta merged with Konica, and then the new Konica-Minolta sold their photo business to Sony, I went with it. I had some nice glass and was quite happy with the Minolta philosophy of photogear, which Sony kept pretty much intact. But then there was this "want to be pro go Canon slash Nikon" thing, and I wanted to be a pro so much. I used to do some paid gigs back in the day when 5d was all the rage. So I got me one plus some very nice L glass and went for a job with it. Huge mistake, never go on a paid gig with a new camera. I had zero experience with it, didn't know that the greenish-yellow screen is not what's actually on the photo. My previous camera, Sony a700 had a big 3" high resolution LCD with damn accurate colours. So I start shooting and immediately go WTF?! Greenish, soft, blurry pictures. I thought something's broken, and the art director must've noticed something, cause he asked if everything was ok, and I was like "sure, everything's perfect", but in my head I went "Jesus H Christ what am I gonna do?!". And right at the very end, the mirror fell off. Plop, just like that. Turned out it was some factory defect and Canon service fixed this for free, but come on, I mean, hello Canon, bloody mirror just fell off your top of the line camera! The photos turned ok, so no real harm. But you know, I kinda lost the lust for Canon. Plus, I really hate the big wheel on the back. I'm a tall guy with long fingers and it just feels like I need a third joint on my thumb to operate it properly. So I bought the a850 which turned out to be awesome camera. And then I went analog, and suddenly the "full frame" didn't feel fo full anymore. And to answer the question - no, a roll of medium format Ektar ain't the magic wand. You need a brain and a set of working eyes, but most of all you need a heart for this.
But. If you really want to be pro, there are some concerns that might be important when choosing camera. Both Canon and Nikon have well established support programs for pros shooting their gear. Access to gear rentals, worldwide service network and so on. And if you're in a war zone and your lens breaks, you can borrow one from your fellow Canon shooting photoreporter. Provided your body takes Canon glass that is. Because they're all shooting Canon. That's the way it is.
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Thanks for great reply!
If you don't mind I will create post for blog about you, using this information.
Now everyone can buy DSLR, but not so many photographers can done such good work. You have show very good direction to grow for new ones.
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