(V) Tutorial: 5 light setup Part 2 – Photoshop Work

This is part 2 of the two part tutorial series, 5 Light Setup.  In this tutorial Alec goes through his Photoshop process for finishing off the stunning portrait of Terry.

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(V) Tutorial: Studio Portrait 5 Light Setup

In my previous post I introduced you to this studio portrait, using 5 strobe lights.  In this post I’ve developed a tutorial on the actual shoot with Terry, the model.  This is the first part of a two part tutorial.  In part two, I go through my post-process on this image in Photoshop.

Creating the Image: [...]

Eric Curry: Really Cool Photography or Painting?

A good friend and photography, Chet Ellingson, turned me on to this guy…Eric Curry and his series of photographic paintings titled American Pride and Passion.  There is something about the look, the craft, the intensity of post production, the taking of images and turning them into paintings that really turns me on.   And make no [...]

Landscape Photography: Another from the Lost Files

Its really fun to go back through the terrabites of harddrive, search raw images for something you missed.  Found one I’d forgotten about and decided to post it.
This image is timely.  I recently publish some of my tutorial content on Mark Johnson’s Photoshop website.  It was the tutorial on split ND filters.  Today’s image is [...]