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When I started this blog, part of what I wanted to use that time for, was working on my photography hobby. While currently I don’t get as much time behind the camera as I would like, I do get all the of time in post-production I could possibly want. There are several important parts to ever blog photo series I work on. The first, and most obvious, is picking the right outfit. This is something I’ve gotten better at over time with practice, and dealing with the pictures in post-production has helped with that a lot. I’m now more consistent at getting really good outfits together than I was when I first started, I can even easily say that in the last year I have been happy with every single outfit I’ve put together.
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The second part is getting what is in the frame of the camera to work. That’s a difficult one when I’m not behind the camera and I can’t see what I look like to the person doing the photography. I have gotten used to knowing how what I’m doing will translate onto the camera which means we end up with much better results. It usually ends up with a bit of back and forth seeing what we have captured so far and giving feedback to each other. The photographer might want me to move a particular way or I might see a shot I want.
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Once the photos are captured, and the best ones selected, the post production begins. This is the part where I spend time working to get the emotion I see in the image to come out clearly, so I spend time making sure the images are frames properly, focused properly, and angled properly before working with a colour theme that works really well for me. One of the foundations for a good image, for me, is getting the shadows and highlights to have the right tones. I recently read an article on why every movie in Hollywood looks teal and orange (once seen, it cannot be unseen). Not everyone is a fan. The colouring intrigued me, however so I thought I would try out teal and orange in the highlights and shadows on the image. The result was the image below, the first time I ever tried it. Above is my favourite use of this preset. I flipping love how it made the orange haze over my right shoulder become radiant. It made all the subtle colours of the shot ‘pop’.
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The best thing about this preset (once I tweaked it and got it right), it really made the natural colours of the image stand out. The green on the right of the above image is what I remember, and it was so dull and brown in the final image. I didn’t even notice until I put the preset on it and the green lit up.
Anyway, for those of you that are interested in having as much fun as me playing with photos, I have got a copy of this preset I made, free for you to download from my Google Drive.
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Enjoy!
– L
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