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Tutorial 15: Mow Cop Sunset
Tutorial 15 sets out to rescue a badly exposed image with lots of potential. We use LightZone and Lightroom extensively to work with the digital zone system to fix the tonality and build contrast, detail and simplicity through tweaking hue, saturation and luminosity values.
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Tutorial 14: Ophelia's Mother
Tutorial 14 covers Jolene Monheim's wonderfully atmospheric and stylish Ophelia's Mother image. Starting with an interview, Jolene tells us all about how her underwater shots are conceived and taken. Then in the video shows we see the development of the image from the source material to the final work using Adobe Photoshop CS3.
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Image: Jolene Monheim
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Tutorial 13: PhotoWalkthrough Promo Image
Tutorial 13 covers our brand new promo image including how it was shot, how it was developed in Lightroom and then finished off in Photoshop.
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Tutorial 12: Singer Island Sunrise
Tutorial 12 covers composition topics starting with leading lines. It covers image selection, RAW conversion, colour processing and light improvements using curves and layer masks.
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Tutorial 11: Wheelbarrow
How to create this gritty textured shot first using LAB colour mode and then how to do it even better in RGB.
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Tutorial 10: Mow Cop Castle
Two tutorials for the price of one with this dramatic colour and B&W scenic shot of a classic Cheshire landmark.
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Tutorial 9: Gun
Tutorial 9 covers this wonderful Gun image produced by Michelle Jones, Melanosis from Flickr. Michelle has produced a wonderfullly moody and gritty image that really reflects the Cannon's bloody history.
This tutorial covers a great deal of creative brush work and some fine selection processes. The thought processes behind the image are also discussed in the accompanying interview file available as MP3.
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Tutorial 8: Flower Triptych
Something fresh and colourful inspired by Andy Warhol for the hot summer days.
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Tutorial 7: Distorted Tree
Some new twists and turns this time as we transform this tree using some Holga style effects.
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Tutorial 6: Weston at Low Tide 2
This time we return to our roots by covering the sister image to Weston at Low Tide from tutorial 1. Many of the same techniques apply plus a few new twists.
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Tutorial 5: Weir at night
A 2 part video tutorial describing the creation of this ambitious night-time, long exposure, high dynamic range image of the Weir at Belper in Derbyshire, UK.
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Tutorial 4: Chair-o-plane
A 3 part video tutorial describing the steps I took to create this image as well as much of the thought process involved in creating an image and a collection.
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Tutorial 3: Cheshire Sky Panorama
A 3 part video tutorial covering RAW processing multiple files using Bridge and Adobe RAW Converter, exporting JPGs using image processor, stitching using Autostitch, dodging/burning and adding contrast and saturation in Photoshop.
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Tutorial 2: HMS Belfast - Cabin Door
A 3 part video tutorial describing the steps I took to create a cross processing effect plus how to create a photoshop action, vignettes, dodge/burn and spot editing on a new layer.
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Tutorial 1: Weston at Low Tide
A 7 part video tutorial describing the steps I took to create the faux Ansel Adams style of this image.
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