Jewelry Photography tutorial posted: shooting a silver bracelet. By Alex Koloskov posted on July 13th, 2012 | Creative Jewelry Photography with liquid As you see, the image is not a “pure” jewelry shot, but a creative one. However, in the tutorial I concentrated on specifics and tips&tricks of shooting the bracelet, without spending too much time for the liquid part of the shot. For the liquids, look up here. I’ve used a different format of doing the tutorial: instead of talking in the studio, I was capturing the screen while opening RAW files of the bracelet and explaining how each highlight and reflection was created, and referencing to the video of the lighting setup captured during the shot.
Below are few screenshots from the video tutorial: Explaining how and why each reflection on the bracelet was formed Going through RAW files from the shot Jewelry Photography video tutorial preview Going really close to get into tiny details of the lighting and reflections Talking about the lighting [ois skin="Jewelry Photography"] All the best, and never stop learning! Dodge and Burn Technique and our little cartoonish family at a strawberry field. By Genia posted on May 7th, 2012 | I like this cartoonish look, which I see on movie posters and advertisements, and I try to reproduce this look in my pictures. I used a different workflow for each image for experimenting, however the main technique for such a look is a Dodge and Burn. I will describe it below. I will not describe the whole process here, because I processed all images in different way by experimenting with Adobe Camera RAW settings and Blending Mode effects.
And only one procedure was the same for all images: the Dodge and Burn technique. This is a simple instruction on how to do it: 1. 2. 3. It sounds very easy, however a good result takes time and practice. Feel yourself as an artist: - Add volume on the face and body parts by highlighting the center, and darkening the sides. - Add shine to hair by intensifying the light and dark areas. - Make eyes and teeth brighter and whiter. - Increase a dynamic range by highlighting parts of the image (dark trees, shadows, etc.)
Using curves in photoshop for retouching. Very useful trick. By Genia posted on January 24th, 2011 | I was asked couple times what the strange mode I used in my video. So, here is the answer: I used curves presets to see differences in gradients and colors. When I apply various curves even slight difference in color or brightness become extremely visible. Here are two examples: 1. Mouse Over to see Original Layer and Curves Adjustment Layer Now it’s easy to clean background using clone tool or burn tool, you will not leave any spot or dust unnoticed. 2. Curves in photoshop, visualization tool. Now you can correct gradients and clean background easily. Thank you for looking. About The Author: Genia Larionova I am retoucher, stylist and inspirer.
You may also like to read: Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5. While I working on a new articles from the shots we have done in 2011, I’d like to re-post the full article form my guest post for LearnMyShot.com (great educational source for beginners). The material is really interesting, and I want to have it on my blog as well. This is how we use focus stacking (focus bracketing) technique in our product photography. Focus stacking the final image We use this technique once a while, mostly for a critical product shots, where closed aperture or tilt-shift lens does not provide enough DOF and/or details.
For this tutorial, I have photographed a silver bracelet, positioned at about 45 degree from a camera focusing plane and then used Photoshop CS5 to compose a final all-in-focus image. First, the lighting setup. even though it is not related to the focus stacking technique, I think it will be cool if I explain it here. Because the bright bracelet has black cast on some of its pieces, I wanted to make sure it will be correctly shown on the final image. HDR Photography Essentials Pack. By Alex Koloskov posted on December 22nd, 2012 | Comments are closed Do you like to take vivid, colorful, yet still realistic landscapes photos, but struggle to get a decent result? Maybe you enjoy doing architecture photography, and are trying to adopt HDR technique to get images which will blow away your competitors?
High Dynamic Range Photography Essentials Course will Show you How to Create Outstanding Shots using HDR technique. We have been using HDR technique for our commercial architecture work for more than 8 years, and our clients loved it, without even thinking that they were getting HDR images. How will this HDR Photography Essentials Course will help you? Hight Dynamic Range Photography Essentials pack Look at everything that’s in the pack: Plus two bonus tutorials: Software we used to process our HDR images: Adobe Photoshop CS5+Photomatix Pro 4.0+Adobe Lightroom 4+ Take a look at examples below, with this pack you will shoot like this! What photographers say about our HDR tutorials: Macro. Silver ring with Swarovski crystals. Used software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 ExtendedTopaz DeNoise Used Tools: You can try to do a retouching work with a mouse, but I highly recommend to use a pen tablet as Wacom: Wacom Intuos4 Large I’ve captured all retouching process of this piece of jewelry:-), and I hope you see the video on www.photigy.com as soon as we edit it.
Also, I’ve added the “Useful Links” page on this blog. Stay tuned:-) We are working on our upcoming ebook (another ebook and video from latest masterclass will be available next week), and here I would like to show you the progress. Now we (Alex and I) have a good grounding in techniques, so this is time for us become more creative. New ebook about how we made this photo will be ready very soon. Thank you for looking. Based on the responses from Alex’s last post about jewelry photo session I”ve decided to post images before and after post production and 100% crop to see amount of work. Mouse Over to see Before and After. How to do Focus Stacking in Photoshop CS5. Jewelry photography post production.
I noticed a big interest to the focus stacking topic. I will explain a post production part in Photoshop CS5 more detailed. You can read and see the video of a shooting part on Alex’s blog Focus stacking technique using Adobe Photoshop CS5 So, we have a sequence of images: 5, 8, 12. I mean, as many as we need. I have 11 images. Step 1. Select the sequence of the photos in Bridge CS5: Images selection for focus stacking Step 2. Tools/Photoshop/Photomerge: Jewelry photography post production, photomerge Layout – autoUncheck “Blend Images Together”Click “OK” Photomerge settings. Step 3. Select all Layers in Photoshop CS5: Select all layers in Photoshop CS5 Edit/Auto-Blend Layers… with default settings: Auto blend layers. Auto blend settings. You will see a Layers palette similar to this: Layers after focus stacking Step 4.
To finish focus stacking go to Layer/Flatten Image: Flatten image Step 5. Save image. Done! Now we are ready to retouch our image. Good luck! ~Amy Chua. Jewelry Photography with iPhone: Nimbus Cloud Dome review. Jewelry Photography with iPhone? Are you guys serious? I found this strange device while picking up lenses for my iPhone lenses test at BHPhotovideo.com. It was nothing strange in the actual device: this is a cone (or dome) to shoot jewelry.
What was unusual is that it was made for shooting jewelry photography with iPhones. I’ve seen Cloud Dome for smartphones project in kickstarter.com some time ago, and while I wished guys success ( I usually like crazy ideas:-) I did not believe they can make it. Glad I was wrong, they did it, and Nimbus Cloud Dome on sale now! I immediately ordered one to play with, as it falls into our iPhone jewelry photography expansion here on Photigy. So, here is the device for jewelry photography, with iPhone attached: the view from inside: BTW, the home of the device is here: www.clouddome.com, I suggest you to check out their other products, there are few really useful things for a jewelry photography with iPhone. Jewelry Photography with iPhone: studio test shot.