Hugo de Wolf
(K=185110) - Comment Date 8/3/2004
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Hi Saul, If you click on Photo Critique, you'll see a "find Photographer" box in the left margin. If you type in Bogdan, you'll find him....
http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/34442.html
The question you ask is still rather wide and undefined. There are many photographers who use photoshop. It's just a matter to browse through the photos, and you'll find several experts. Just leave a comment, and ask them what they did.
You can also check out the Digital Darkroom forum:
http://www.usefilm.com/photo_forum/14/
Cheers,
Hugo
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Ali Chehade
(K=792) - Comment Date 8/9/2004
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Hey Saul ... I'm also a beginner, but I think I can help you with some basics :
Number one is the lighting ... it gives the BIGGEST effect on quality and clarity ..
the second thing is the Film .. ( I've dont have experience with digital .. sorry ) using a slide film with give you superior noticable quality and clarity and GREAT colors ! Fuji REALA is great also ..
The lens is also something really important .. think about it .. it's what collects light .. it's worth buying a good lens ;)
Well .. at the end of the day .. you can use PS .. it helps .. but for sure it wont turn a piece of scratch to a great photo .. one should have a good thing to start with ;)
Thanks for listening to my humble opinion ;)
Ali
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Michael Kanemoto
(K=22115) - Comment Date 8/27/2004
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Saul:
You can check out some of my photographs. Some are altered and unaltered with Photoshop.
The first hint is to get a polarizing filter for your lens. The polarizer will remove glare, but also darken skies and make clouds "pop".
Shoot in the morning or evening to get a lot of contrast out of the sky and to get a lot of warm sidelighting.
If you are in a real bind, then you do not have a choice but to use Photoshop. The best way is to use quick mask in Photoshop to seperate out the ground and the sky. Sometimes you can select a section of sky, use grow or simular, then switch to quick mask mode to clean up the selection.
When you have the sky isolated in the selection, use the Photoshop Levels function to correct the contrast, brightness, and gamma. You can also artificially darken and wipe out haze from a photograph.
Using the select inverse you can then lighten or darken the ground.
After all is said and done, you will have to go in and clean up any artificial looking mask lines with the stamp/clone tool or the healing brush.
Don't go over the top, since you get a horrible fake look in the lighting.
Let me know if you want a step by step walkthrough with attached photographs.
Michael
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Stephen Bowden
(K=64141) - Comment Date 9/1/2004
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Hi Saul,
I agree with Michael, the first thing you should do is to get a polarising filter for your camera.
The best type are the "Circular Polariser" and you can rotate this around and see the difference through the EVF or lens (depending on your camera).
Another good thing about the filter is that if the camera is accidentaly knocked face down it is only the filter that gets scratched and not your lens.
A different choice of filter would be the Ultra Violet filter (UV) which is cheaper than the polariser but still very effective.
Just a few thoughts :-)
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Shehabeldin Mostafa
(K=1163) - Comment Date 12/6/2004
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Saul... First of all let us agree that your question is way too wide and cannot be answered properly because a complete answer would mean a full description of all the PS capabilities. However, let me tell you the following...professional photographers usually do not use PS to edit their photos unless it is really required. In other words if a shot is good, PS cannot improve it any better. On the contrary, it might rui the photo. Of course there is a lot to edit like the brightness, contrast.... and such standard editting. You can them go into more details of applying digital effects on the image. There are no rules here and it is a trial and error process till you get the image the way you wanna see it. I recommend you take a course in photo shop and then you will be able to have all the tools and it would then be to your judgement of what to use and when...good luck
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John Beavin
(K=4477) - Comment Date 12/31/2004
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Hello Saul, It may be a bit late to answer this query but here goes. First I looked at your portfolio and I think you are under exposing by 2 stops. now about photo shop, It is useful to lighten or darken,to crop, sharpen,remove scratches ,clone and many other things. Practice with an old shot and practice some more. I use paint shop pro and to learn I would type photo sharpening in google for instance, it amazed me how much free information was on the web .Good luck.
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