[Aka]

ANTHONYD,Aug 23 2006, 06:47 PM Wrote:This is the guy I use these days.

INCREDIBLE.

ALL in camera including the water.

Look in here for inspiration.

PETER SHAFERICK
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Those are some awesome (and messy to clean up after) shots! Though I really wonder how he did some of them with just the camera. This one in particular.


I'm just not sure how you could get water to do that without shooting a hundred million times or perhaps it being a total fluke. Or perhaps it's just my imagination.

ANTHONYD,Aug 23 2006, 08:41 PM Wrote:I'll tend to use photographers that are able to shoot in seperate CMYK settings. It's like taking 4 shots and making it into one. You can adjust each shot to make sure each erea is the best it can

Its' essentially shooting in 4-channel mode. Then if there is any retouching required, you're only adjusting the areas that are absolutely nessesary.

It works wonders in studio. Not sure if it works the same way for sharp shooters like you guys.

The main goal from what I can remember from hanging with these guys is this...Make sure you capture as much information as you can in camera. Thatway when you retouch...it looks like you didn't.

I'll bring you AKA on a shoot sometime so you can see how they do it. Jay you can come too if you can fly here yourself. tongue.gif

I believe the sensor in my camera is RGB, and the colour mode is sRGB. I can't shoot CMYK. Anyway, isn't tweaking the picture that much in the camera the same as photoshopping it later? how is it different in the end result? say with identical cameras, one opts to photoshop and the other opts to do it all in camera. What makes the 'all in camera' picture superior? I would personally say the 'all in camera' photographer is superior yes, no doubt, but the end result? Though maybe that's not the arguement.

I agree, the main goal is to capture as much information as you can. I get told that quite a bit, and it's the complete truth. I often go for a darker picture instead of a washed out sky, so that I can get both, then use curves and what not to adjust for it. However this also often brings lots of noise out of the shadows, so I have to be very careful, otherwise I end up with crap. I also found out that there's still quite a lot of information left in what looks like a washed out picture, if I darken the white sky, I often find that there was colour there afterall. This is partially an effect of my monitor not being properly calibrated (just took it out of the box plugged it in, and adjusted the brightness, that's it). But I also think it's often just an effect with ones eyes (Something like this).

As for the last line, I would absolutely love that!


Edit: Also, I rarely adjust the colour in my pictures, saturation perhaps, but colour is very rare for me to adjust.