Making an fine art photograph is a lot easier if you have a vision form the start.Learn about that as well as how to use masks, the Zone System Express panel, and handpainted masks. www.alteredspa...
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@pbziegler6 жыл бұрын
The more of your videos I see the more impressed I am by your vision and skill. I have ZSE and Palette Effects as Blake Rudis is another of my processing gurus. You show us how easily we can go in and out of ZSE and how to produce a vibrant compelling image from a rather flat, uninteresting record shot.
@Senna81276 жыл бұрын
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@DavidBrown-wf6pz5 жыл бұрын
Amazing! I loved it all, but especially the last 5 minutes on vignettes!! Thank you Jim.
@andreybessolitsyn20554 жыл бұрын
The best real practical lesson!
@marclabro6 жыл бұрын
awesome ! the best tuto i have seen on b&w retouching and zone system express use with finishig touch in palette effect
@AnVoPhotography6 жыл бұрын
Very well explained. I don’t use Blake’s system myself but I do follow his channel anyway. You have a new subscriber here, and I look forward to future videos if you choose to share more. 👍👏🙂
@kurtauerbach58833 жыл бұрын
i gave a thumbs up for ur sharing the black and white edit and you are the most talented mask user ive seen. It appears PS can only apply band aids in regards to mask . Mask have always been so cumbersome in Photoshop. Zone Express appears to have some tools designated for the issue but just adds to the haze. Ive very impressed with Darktables mask approach. It seems as if Darktable created the photo editor around the mask. Not just and add on like in Photoshop. Photoshop does have the years of loyal users on its side.
@alexandraacreator-art5 жыл бұрын
your website is amazing! wonderful gallery.
@rgarlinyc6 жыл бұрын
Masterful! Thanks a ton JW!
@kbqvist6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jim! Since you are emphasizing, here and elsewhere, the importance of previsualizing the final image, I wonder whether it could have merit to start out a tutorial of this type by actually showing us where you want to go (the final image), and give some comments on what the differences before/after will be. Obviously it is already clear in your head, but perhaps it might help some viewers a bit.
@DiviPhotos3 жыл бұрын
cool video
@simonbaker67943 жыл бұрын
gr8 video thank you
@DiviPhotos5 жыл бұрын
Cool video nice
@AcidicDelusion6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@alexandraacreator-art5 жыл бұрын
wow masterful
@josediazh38906 жыл бұрын
Muchas gracias!
@lance00553 жыл бұрын
I appreciate this level of skill and style...i much prefer the simplicity of Ansel Adams where time spent at the camera and less processing in days when there was no photoshop, revealed a more life like photo...
@jamesruse97086 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Jim. I found out the spotlight cursor is part of your presentation software. Just asking because I’m teaching a friend some Photoshop basics...thought the cursor might help. But I don’t need to invest in the software.
@MikesPOV Жыл бұрын
Is that a Zone System Plugin for Photoshop?
@mikeiz20072 жыл бұрын
It would help me if you made this image available for me to work along with you. Dave Kelly does this and it’s very helpful to practice all of the techniques you’re trying to teach.
@bulentozgoc13544 жыл бұрын
Hello Jim very good tutorial , congratulations ! How can i put the zone system to Photoshop ? Can you help me ? Thnaks a lot .
@edwardscully65364 жыл бұрын
How can you lose that wonderful texture in the sea at the beginning, and turn it into an ice skating ring?
@jinyingzhan9274 жыл бұрын
painting photography
@kymnewman35184 жыл бұрын
Hi do you need to have a picture to begin with or can you create one. Cheers
@jamesruse97086 жыл бұрын
I watched this tutorial on Blake Rudis' blog. I really like your editing style. I am now subscribed to your channel. I have a question: how do you get your cursor to show a yellow spotlight? I like that effect.
@JimWelninski6 жыл бұрын
+James Ruse it's just there so you can easily see where my mouse is during the video.
@antdenzic79773 жыл бұрын
The future of photography is all images are taken off the computer. You won't even have to go outside any more.
@francoparnetti3 жыл бұрын
I dont know a thing about photoshop or photography why am I looking at this
@cb98316 жыл бұрын
I bow before your alter of skills regarding photo manipulation however - as the ultimate goal is the final image - perhaps less is much much more !!!!! The further the process went - the more contrived the result became & - had I not returned on the ferry & by passed this view a couple of weeks ago - I would have been convinced that the image was a composite. Surely some effort to blur water at the shutter stage would be a token gesture to non electronic photography & - fully recognising the effort you made to work on edges etc etc - the foreground elements ( small islet particularly ) have that 'superimposed' look so typical of "photoshopping " The more you worked - the more the edges of the hard surfaces became distinct from the surrounding water !!! It felt to me - that this vision - was going to be achieved irrespective of the source material !!!!! Obviously it's in the eye of the beholder & it's very difficult to legislate for that - I just wonder if there is an imbalance between 'in the field' & '' in the chair ' !!!! Each to his own !!!! Well done for demonstrating multiple procedures !! CB
@JimWelninski6 жыл бұрын
Hi Colby. Thanks for taking the time to write. My intention here is to teach post processing techniques, not to impress anyone with my skills. In this case the ultimate goal is absolutely not the final image. Achieving a perfect final image when teaching isn't always the point. And because of time constraints, it isn't always possible. What's important is whether or not the key principles being taught are grasped. If my intent was to wow you by manipulating a photo, I would have used a perfect shot and you would never spot my edits. The video would also be far, far longer. While I appreciate your efforts in trying to call me out, you miss the larger point. I'm teaching a set of skills here. Those skills are part of a much larger set of skills that are necessary to produce quality work. What I'm not doing here is making a perfect, portfolio-worthy photograph. This video is about tonal control and vision, not about compositing or mask making or anything else. And it's most certainly not about "non-electronic photography". Shooting technique doesn't have to be perfect in order to enjoy post processing. And a great photograph can be made from a less than perfect shot if one understands their tools and knows how to use them. If you rode the ferry to Mull then you know how the image was captured. Setting up a tripod on the deck of that ferry would just be silly. It's not possible to teach photography comprehensively in one video. What is possible is to take a concept or a related group of concepts and teach them so they can be understood and used by the student. That's exactly the purpose of this video. Over the years of my teaching career, I have found that students actually learn more from a photo that isn't perfect. A flawed photo requires fixing and that requires adaptation and creative problem solving. In my opinion, those skills are far more valuable than learning to make a perfect shot. Very few photos are shot under ideal conditions. Knowing how to fix them goes a long way. As for making a token gesture to non-electronic photography, I'm not sure why that's necessary. I'm not working in that medium, nor am I trying to emulate it. And the techniques I'm addressing here are ones that are used "in the chair", so an imbalance is perfectly appropriate. I hope you got something valuable from the video. Thanks for watching and for writing.
@patricialeonard96226 жыл бұрын
Colby Burke , here is a critique of your critique; you use too many exclamation marks, it detracts from your message!
@stevejones16823 ай бұрын
Several photographers are creating a plague on the Internet. They seem shy of saying what it really is. They all too often mean monotone artistic photography. In reality it is no more fine than colour. People are entitled to prefer monotone so why not admit it instead of suggesting something it isn't? It certainly isn't better than the richness of colour.
@jeff66604 жыл бұрын
Nice work...but so, so HATE that phrase...Hand Crafted. Next the guy who mows my lawn will be saying he is now offering "Hand Crafted Lawn Mowing Service".