Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
This is a short tutorial on how to create an action in adobe photoshop CS5 and CS6 and help you improve on your editing workflow on your images, this action will help you on lightning and darkening the image and also warming up or cooling down the overall look.
1) Bring up any image in Photoshop. Remember, as you are creating an action, do not adjust anything for this particular image. Make sure you ACTIONS PALLETTE is in LIST view and that Button Mode is deactivated for now.
2) DUPLICATE THE BACKGROUND LAYER (shortcut: cmd + J)
3) Change the BLENDING MODE on Layer 1 to “Screen” This is done by using the drop-down box right at the top of your layers palette
4) Change the OPACITY of this layer to 50%
5) Change the name of Layer 1 to “Brighten” by double-clicking where it says “Layer 1″
6) Add a LAYER MASK by clicking the third icon at the bottom of the layers pallette. It looks like a black rectangle with a white circle in it.
7) MAKE SURE YOU RE-SELECT THE BACKGROUND LAYER!!!!!
8) Now Repeat Steps 2-6 to add a contrast layer. Use “SOFT LIGHT” instead of ”SCREEN” as your blending mode.
9) MAKE SURE YOU RE-SELECT THE BACKGROUND LAYER!!
10) To add a VIBRANCY boost, create an ADJUSTMENT LAYER by clicking on the 4th icon at the bottom of your layers palette. It looks like a circle with a light side and a dark side. Choose VIBRANCY from the menu.
11) Push the Vibrancy slider all the way up to 100
12) Change the OPACITY of this layer to 50%
13) MAKE SURE YOU RE-SELECT THE BACKGROUND!!
14) To Create a WARMTH layer, create an ADJUSTMENT LAYER by clicking on the 4th icon at the bottom of your layers palette. It looks like a circle with a light side and a dark side. Choose COLOUR BALANCE from the menu.
15) For Warmth use +20 in the Red/Cyan box, and -20 in the Yellow/Blue box
16) Change the OPACITY to 0% as you only add warmth if the image needs it
17) Re-Name this LAYER “Warm”
18) MAKE SURE YOU RE-SELECT THE BACKGROUND LAYER!!!
19) Repeat Steps 14-18 to add a Cool layer. Use -20 in the Red/Cyan box, and +20 in the Yellow/Blue box
20) The action is now complete, so click STOP. The button at the bottom of the ACTION PALLETTE that is a Square.
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
The start of the wedding photography
Amie Curtis and Nathan Paulden wedding ceremony at Easthampstead Park in Wokingham, wow,with the groom pulling up in a gleaming white Rolls Royce and the bride in a vintage Jaguar showing that the soon to be married couple have style. I must admit when I arrived the weather didn’t look good with rain and thunder hanging over the venue, but with a sudden break in the weather and the sun coming out I was able to dash out and capture the bride in the fantastic car she rolled up in.
Ceremony
Whilst the ceremony was in full swing we all glanced out of the window to see the heavens open up lashing down with rain. I think we were all thinking the same thing (please stop for the group photos) and our wish was to come true! We had just the right amount of time to capture the shots in the sun before the happy couple headed off to there reception.
Saturday, July 28th, 2012
We all had so much fun covering Julie wrights masked ball event located at the stunning Caversham Heath Golf Club and the photobox was a huge success capturing hundreds of unforgettable images. After we set the photobox up in a discreet corner of the room everyone came flooding over for some fun and lively photos. I think it helped being situated right next to the dance floor.
Later in the evening when we got the chance we turned the photobox lights off and started walking around to capture those candid shots from around the room and on the dance floor for what made out to be an amazing night for all.
Friday, July 27th, 2012
I had the privilege to cover Emily and Tim’s wedding on 21 July At St Stephens Pond Street London And this is a photo of their amazing jazz band that was playing throughout the wedding, I fell in love with this photo as to me it looks like a picture that’s been painted and not an actual photo that’s been taken by a camera.
When it comes to editing the image all I did was turn the photo to black-and-white I’ve added some noise and gain into the image and I’ve added a filter over the top for the end result, I’ll be posting the rest of Emily and Tim’s photos in the next couple of days.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Thanks to Goringe Accountants i had the pleasure of providing them with 2 new staff profile photos for there website, we had to sneak in to a nearby meeting room to cary out the photo shoot and just in the nick of time. We just finished the shoot when in came the person using the room! 5 minuets to pack up and we was out of there before you could say jack robinson, then a quick cup of tea “thanks Laura” then of to do the editing so they could update there website the same day.
Why sit around looking out for the postman when we have the power of dropbox, 3 hours later and the customer can download there photos.
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
The Military Wedding
The wedding of Emily Hadley and Tim Fitzgerald was held at the amazing St.Stephens Church located on Pond Street London, the church was recently fully restored and it’s well worth a look into the history behind the restoration. with it’s stunning stained-glass windows and architecture it is well worth a visit and a must to get married in.
Groom & Bride
The day started out at Tim’s hotel were he was getting ready very calm and relaxed putting on his Military uniform by 12 o’clock the room was full with his team sipping a glass of champagne, by 1 o’clock I was heading over to Emily’s flat to start taking the pictures of them getting ready and yet again everyone was relaxed all the hair and make-up was almost finished and they were waiting for the cars to roll up. The church ceremony was amazing with the full honor guard after the church ceremony for Emily and Tim to walk out to.
Reception
The whole day and evening went to clockwork with not a minute to spare in between, with the champagne flowing and speeches finished there was only one thing left to do that was for the dancefloor to open up and the first dance to commence, a big thank you to Emily and Tim and congratulations on your wonderful day.
Friday, July 20th, 2012
What a truly amazing day with the sun shining when we came out from the ceremony and with a brief shower of rain in the morning but to luck we had umbrellas & the amazing venue they chose to be married at (Pincents Manor), when Hayley rolled up in a stunning vintage car i just new this was going to be a wedding to capture some stunning shots. Starting of in the morning at the families home i was greeted with a warm welcome and a nice cup of tea to get me ready for the day ahead, every one was so calm and relaxed with a pop of the Champagne cork the day started.
Friday, July 20th, 2012
Thank you to Nari and her family for a worm welcome on the sunday photo shoot, nothing to much of a problem as i moved there front room around to accommodate the photo booth. Always offering refreshments at the end of the shoot (thank You) and the little boy and girl was fantastic with there cheeky smiles and playful energy. The top photo is a new look I’m doing called the 300 after the film and with the man of the house being tall and strong i just could not resist to create the 300 effect.
Friday, July 20th, 2012
What an amazing day i had with such a lovely bunch or girls, full of fun and laughter ( and a bottle of wine or two) always making me feel so welcome by offering me drinks and food (thank you) by the end of the day the drinks was still flowing and everyone was having a good time, did they see the horse race ?? well i took some photos of the hours race for them by sneaking away for 30min, only thinking of you girls!! and hay presto they have photos of the race to see when they are all sober
