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Little Type illo for RBMA The Daily Note

Here is a little behind-the-scenes of my creative process. With every one of my designs I try to flush things out early on with quick sketches and color studies before diving into generating the assets.

 

This is an example of my Signalera piece, where I started with a very quick sketch of composition, then a study in Illustrator, and the final piece.

 

You can see a larger version right here.

 

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"What is possible? What you will."

~Augustus William Hare

 

Definitely have to spend some time tomorrow catching up on all of your wonderful work! It's been a bit of a crazy holiday weekend that has not seen me home much!

 

This is a hot from a photowalk I went on earlier this week with Zach Frailey. Had a great time and grabbed some great brackets!

 

As always, you can read about the processing I've done on this shot and all my images on on my website.

 

New blog post today, Off in the distance! Check it out if you have a chance!

 

I hope that you all have a great weekend!

 

I don't mind invitations, but please no big, shiny, flashing, glitter graphics, they will be deleted. Also, please contact me if you would like to use my pictures for any reason, as all rights are reserved. Thanks!

 

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Post Processing Workflow

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Do you get intimidated or overwhelmed by complicated image editing software? Relax. I’m here to walk you through the process step-by-step. By the time you’ve watched this series of video tutorials you’ll be processing your images with confidence.

This is combined from the two images:

www.flickr.com/photos/weihaowang/27112232062/in/album-721...

and

www.flickr.com/photos/weihaowang/17784427373/in/album-721...

The two images were combined with a special workflow in frequency space. Some more explanations can be found here: astrob.in/316473/0/

Vivitar 285HV at 1/8th power through DIY grid spot fired manually at the box.

Unglaublich wie schnell die Kreuzspinne ihr Netz baute, ich bin sehr froh das mir diese Aufnahme gelungen ist.

 

Unbelievable how quickly the cross spider built her net. I am very glad that this picture has succeeded me.

Edited this one in CS6 with nothing more than a pass of noise cancelation, slight curves adjustment, and sharpening on only the red and green channel.

First, Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone. Second DO NO TRY THIS AT HOME.

 

The following is how I edit my photos from my camera to Flickr.

 

1. Take an insane amount of photos of everything that you see in burst mode. I shoot everything in raw and large jpeg. I usually take a burst of 3 photos for every subject. For something like a marathon, my trip to San Francisco, or my day at the Lone Star Rally that would translate to 5000 photos. I took close to 30,000 photos in Japan. If we hadn't had 2 typhoons move through while I was there it would have been closer to 50,000. If you have quit laughing now please read on.

 

2. I transfer the 64 gb sd cards to my Windows 7 desktop. I usually do this one card at a time since I never have more than a 100 gb of storage left.

 

3. After uploading a sd card I go though and delete each out of focus shot or anything that just looks really off. Hopefully I cleared up enough room to upload another card. If not I try to see what I can part with and delete that. Eventually I will get everything into my Windows photo editor. The editor only sees jpegs and I have to move the cards over to my Mabook Pro in order to see the raw files.

 

4. The next step is to pick the best photo out of each burst. Sometimes the tired X-T1 misses every shot in a burst but really that is mostly my fault.

 

5. Go through the best shots and decide what to actually keep and edit in Lightroom. I try to remember that Lightroom can work wonders on some photos. Hopefully, I culled heavily but that is another problem that I am working on.

 

6. Rename all of the keeper photos so that I can find them in Lightroom. I am sure that there is an easy way to do this. This actually takes a really long time for me.

 

7. Transfer all of the photos to be edited onto another sd card.

 

8. Finally, turn on the Macbook Pro and import all of the photos into Lightroom.

 

9. Apply some sort of edit to the first photo and hopefully that can be applied to most of the photos in the upload.

 

10. Go back over every photo and make any minor adjustments that are necessary.

 

11. Go back over the photos one last time and cull any if necessary.

 

12. Finally, they can be uploaded to Flickr.

 

And that is how not to do it. (I actually really, really do it this way. It is possible that I even left a step or two out.)

Le Suquet is the old quarter of Cannes, probably best known to tourists as the climbing, winding cobbled lane lined with local restaurants, Rue St Antoine. Le Suquet contains a clock tower and church that sit high facing east overlooking the Bay of Cannes and Cannes itself. At the bottom of Le Suquet on Rue Dr. P. Gazagnaire is the Marché Forville, where the market is held in the mornings and early afternoon.

 

This area is the original fishermans' residential area of Cannes. The houses are all very old. The streets were laid out at least 400 years ago. It is a 5-minute walk from the beach and is full of restaurants around the Rue Saint Antoine and the Rue du Suquet. A lot of the area is pedestrianised and is a major tourist attraction for visitors to Cannes.

 

The rue du Suquet is the original main road into Cannes. It came in below the walls of the castle (for defence reasons). It is a pedestrian street again and has plenty of restaurants [Wikipedia.org]

Located in the heart of the glamorous city of Cannes —close to the Palais du Festival and famous Croisette walk— the Vieux Port de Cannes has been a long time favourite port of call for boats of all sizes. A wooden quay in front of the Capitainerie can accommodate yachts up to 40m there (50m upon request)

[yachtinsidersguide.com]

Today's shot was captured on an early morning sunrise at Glencoe Beach, just north of Chicago. In fact, if you look closely, you can see the Chicago skyline in the background of this image. I recently did an interview for www.everydayhdr.com. In the interview, I talked a little bit about my post processing techniques. I have gotten some requests for my post processing workflow, and even though I do plan on putting up an HDR tutorial soon, that might be a good starting point for those of you interested.

 

In this image I cranked the dials up quite far to get as much contrast as possible. This always leaves me wondering if perhaps the image is too over-dramatic. What are your thoughts?

 

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Creating actions for future weddings is so much fun. Now I have pretty nice workflow developed.

 

New Presetr Fuji 400H preset as an import preset in Lightroom. Then I run the whole exported JPG folder through automated Photoshop action, which adds two Alienskin Exposure custom presets with film grain and a bit faded toning.

 

Most important part is the scaling, which I do atm. with the "Bicubic automatic" setting in Ps. It sharpens the grain to look even more like film.

 

I'm not after film look because it's film, but because it looks 'organic' (=more alive).

The dividers that follow are "inbox", "actions", "agendas", "projects", and "reference". I use the inbox for note taking, and when I process the notes remove them from the section. So if it's working the inbox is close to empty

So today I noticed that the Beta 2 for Adobe Lightroom 3 was out, and I decided to give it a shot. Never really understanding what was that different between LR and Bridge/ACR, I decided to give it a try. What the heck, can't beat the price.

 

Well, thus far, I love it. I did everything to the image posted here in LR (including uploading it to Flickr!), and it was fairly intuitive for someone already familiar with Bridge/ACR. I LOVE the brushes, too! My only concern is that since I can do so much in LR, I will be lazy and not go into PS when I only anticipate making minor adjustments there.

 

The second purpose of this post is to invite you all to the Disney Photo Challenge Group. While I'm sure many of you are already members, for those who aren't, this is a light-hearted group with topical challenges. It's not an ordinary "awards" group nor is it a critique group. It's more a fun and community type group...it also happens to be my favorite group on Flickr. So if you haven't checked it out, give it a shot; you might have a good time there, too!

WORKFLOW:

5 exposures merge to HDR in CS4, save as 32bit Radiance

Toned mapped in Photomatix 3, Save as 8bit Tiff

Adjusted levels, Hi Pass, Noise Reduction, Borders and Texts in CS4, save as Jpg

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