Now for something completely different - a video of my retouching my photography! This video features some more images from my shoot with Justine Green. These images were captured in Adelaide, South Australia, using my trusty Nikon D750, 24-70 f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8 and my 105 f/2 lens. These images are lit with a Godox AD200 strobe.
Props the stranger who overheard us talking about photography on the hiking path and suggested the field of flowers that was a location I hadn't made my way to in my initial scouting journey.
This video has no sound.
This video is recorded in real time, and I retouch two images. This goes through my standard process. My standard retouching process is closely modelled on the techniques that Richard Wood uses. It involves:
- Camera Raw Adjustments to Exposure
- Healing Brush
- Frequency Seperation to even out colours
- Dodging and Burning using Curves adjustment layers
- Sharpening Areas of the image selectively
- Playing around with the tones again
- Adding a vingette and completing any final touches
(Though, I tend to add vingettes early, instead of at the end).
The images appearing in the video are below, in their final, retouched versions. Hope you enjoy this insight into how I use Photoshop to retouch my images!
Colours may vary between this image and the video footage - thanks JPG compression! :)
Every time I go out and do some photography, I try to improve something. I'm getting to the stage where I am starting to experience some "imposter" syndrome, and fear that the work I'm producing is starting to eclipse my own technical understanding. I might make a further post about this later.
It's becoming more and more natural to do things by instinct. It's been just over a year since I started shooting again, and I'm not yet feeling like I've plateaued with my skill level.