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Lesson Info
12. Editing Pt. 2
Lessons
My Story
08:45 2Workshop Overview
01:40 3My Gear
10:22 4Pitching A Client
13:05 5Pre-Pro Planning
11:32 6Scouting A Location
06:53 7In the Field: Shooting Story Shots
04:40 8Tips for Talking to Models
05:51Lesson Info
Editing Pt. 2
So this shot here, I won't go through all the editing I did on it, but I'll show you what the end product was and some little things I did to get there. This shot is more focused on the product versus that last shot was a product shot, but it wasn't so focused on the detail of the actual product. This one, however, is much more focused on the actual product itself, and you saw me shooting it on-site, and this is the final image from that. So, that's the before. And that's the after. You can tell it's warped a bit. You can tell I did a lot of bringing up in the shadows, but there's the Y. I hit the Y key, and you can see a very, very different look there, so. You can see there in the, oh, actually, that's cool, I didn't know you could do that. We'll come into the shadows, and you can see a very big difference between the two. These are very dark, this is very light, and has some color into it as well. So as I mentioned while shooting, I was exposing for the backpack. I wanted to bring o...
ut a lot of detail in the backpack, so that's why it is so dark in the before. If you look at the basic tab here, the shadows are cranked up, the exposure is 3/4 of a stop up. And you'll notice in a lot of my photos, that I'll push the shadows up right here and I'll bring down the blacks. And that just creates a nice contrast in the shadows, bringing out a little more definition and detail in them. So, that's what it came out to be, and I'll show you a few little tricks here that I used to bring out the product. And I'm first gonna just turn off all the gradient and the radial filters. And boom, that product just disappeared right there when I turned off that radial filter. So, first and foremost, turn that back on, and let's look at what's inside it. So there it's affecting. Also keep in mind, you can totally do this by hitting the K key and actually brushing it in, but this is the quick-fix workshop. But this is the more scrappy way, the quick-fix way of doing it. So click in there and you'll see quite a lot of changes happened. We bumped the exposure up a bit, added some contrast, added a bit of highlight, added a bit of shadow, took out a little bit of black. And what's important here too is the clarity, the sharpness, and the noise. So I bumped up the clarity a bit, bumped up the sharpness a bit. So it's just targeting the product. It brings out the product a little bit more. And then, same with the noise. This is just essentially noise reduction. So the higher you make it, the less noise there will be. It's a little backwards in my opinion, but put it to plus +40, and it removed a bit of noise. So let's zoom into it real quick. So that's turned off. And there it is turned on. And I'll show you without the noise. So put it at zero. You see it just got very grainy. And we'll put it back up to 40. Looks solid. It doesn't look super solid when you're zoomed way in, but when you're zoomed out, it definitely passes. Come into the gradient filter, and turn that on. Very subtle changes, but important ones. I'll just run through these ones real quick. This one, I wanted to target the wall section next to him. I just took down the exposure and I took down the clarity. I didn't want it to be so sharp as there's a lot of rocks and small shadows and detail in there, and I didn't want it to distract too much from the backpack. So just taking a little bit of that detail away goes a long way. This one here, this bottom section was a bit bright. I'll just delete it real quick. You can see that whole section just lit up. And that's what it looks like with it. It just further puts your focus a little more inward, a little more centered on that backpack. And this one is very similar to the wall one where I took out more clarity. So that rock, I'll just take that out. Delete. You notice that rock in the distance gets a bit sharper, so I'm gonna undo it. So I'm going to bring it back in. Boom. You notice that rock, those edges get a lot more softer, and further bringing you more inward to the backpack. So turn 'em all off. There it is. Turn 'em all on. Makes it a bit darker. It's almost like a vignette in a way, but a makeshift vignette, a scrappy vignette, a quick fix. So yeah, that's a great way to quick fix some product shots. And I wanna do a whole edit now, from Lightroom all the way to Photoshop.
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Ratings and Reviews
Romain Dancre
Concrete Examples & Lots of Value Really interesting workshop with a real experience and real photoshoot. We get to understand the whole process of Andrew and his way of thinking and acting and this is super interesting to learn about!
Robert Ransley
Simply outstanding!
Adriaantje Buijze
Practical and useful! Finally, this workshop does not leave you with theoretic principles but actually provides you with practical to do's / to go about's if you want to grow further into a career of photography for brands.
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