Hey Thank you for this video ! I just found one in a garage sell I m cleaning it but it seems the button to take the picture is stuck I can’t press it and I don’t want to force it Do you know the reason?
Could you please do it about Hugo Comte ? I love his whole 90s looks on his photography, I love and really want to achieve the way he does his backgrounds (it's slightly grey with shadows but still, there is white areas), I think he shots all his imagery on film, but i really want to get that look on digital, + the way he lights his models, their skins shine, and some of his pictures (Bella Hadid for Heaven Marc Jacobs Campaign, for example feels like a 3D shot, because I guess he composes 2 images (Sharp background and the photo of the model) into 1 image, but i could be wrong on that ! Basically I LOVE the general look of his work, the way he lights his set and models ! 🙏🏼
Im so glad you enjoyed it! I’m working on a new video right now! I’ll check out your guy and add them to the list, look out for a new video in the next three weeks
Wow, that is an absolutely fascinating encounter for me! I’m a Ukrainian, displaced by the war. Having lived in Kyiv for about 18 years, I find it hard to express the incredible mixture of feelings your story has just brought up in me! Thank you for all the sensitiveness and attention you demonstrate here. It feels as if I had met you that winter in Kyiv, we might have had an interesting conversation. And there’s even more to say now. Anyway, I’m going to order this zine if it is still available
I look back on Kyiv with incredibly fond memories, like I was able to experience yesterday. Spending a month there I left a different person I truly believe. There’s a poeticism in the streets that is so subtle, the first blanket of snow can cover it.
Hey I love the video. it was very informative. I recommend you starting a series on "How to shoot like" and recreate established photographers. It would help blow up your RU-vid.
Gah it´s so hard for me to understand some of the shots bc the scenes looks so familiar , something I would never have thought taking pic of. your expl is amazing! also lol there is entire movement of post-Soviet core in Eastern European arts and photo so its ok, it is depressing despite being advanced and modern
Great job! I would offer doing your color grading in capture 1. It’s super fast and efficient and you can save your style presets! Then import and do your touch ups in photoshop
Just a thing to note, since you did the flattening s-curve in photoshop, you had less data to work with. Photoshop doesn't work directly with the raw file, rather it rasterizes and compress it to something that's more readable as a layer (idk what it exactly does, but it's not the direct raw) - this is why camera raw exists, and also why your base corrections in a raw converter look one way when the image is in it's raw state, and another if it gets applied post retouch on a .tiff or .psd, even if it haven't had anything done except the save. Same thing goes for corrections in camera raw, they don't work the same if an image is brought into photoshop with camera raw, or if it's been brought in and then went through camera raw. So if you really wanted to stretch the file, and retain as much quality as possible, that type of work should be done in your raw converter of choice before importing it to PS.
That’s incredible insight. So my layers were essentially crunching a compressed jpg. If I wanted to achieve the same effect the proper way, I would Ctrl + Shift + A for raw editor on new layers correct? I guess the way I did it is a testament to having a 45MP sensor
@@Brandongorrie Spot on with the jpg crunching, however, the new layer CR would also yield the same compression. It has to be done prior to bringing it into PS as it can't read raw - which is why when you load a raw file by dragging it into PS it goes to camera raw before it lets you open it in PS. So for your workflow it'd probably feel smoothest to do in C1 before photoshop import. If you use curves a lot for adjustments pre-photoshop, and want to retain some of that look work without having to calculate what a flat version of that would be, then another option for opening up more data could be to change the gamma curve in C1 to 'Film Extra Shadow' (Found in the color tab by default in the Base Characteristics menu), as it leaves you with a pretty flat raw. I know that there's a couple retouchers that do D&B almost exclusively in the raw editor for this exact reason too, and some who import multiple versions of the same image to PS with different light adjustments to composite them together. If C1 figures out how to make their masking run as smooth and fast as photoshop it'd probably become an industry standard procedure overnight. Final bonus tip - When you rasterize your adjustments mid-way you compress the image in PS even further. To avoid that, merging layers should only be done at the very end of the PS cycle. The layer stack most retouchers use go Base Image - Healing - DB - Color correction - Look - Final merge, with frequency seperation happening just before the look if necessary, since it requires rasterization.
@@madsterix1125 that’s incredible information. I think I the best way forward is probably flattening the image in C1 and then bringing back into PS to begin with base layer healing and so on.
Just found your channel off this video! Looks like this is your best performing one so far. Would definitely continue on this subject as I don't think there are many fashion photographers doing this on RU-vid. Great video. Just followed.
I really appreciate that, man. I noticed that not a lot of people describe how they shoot their work and so I’m going to do my best to tackle that niche. New videos in the works as we speak! Gotta round up MUAs and Stylists and Models!
I know this is an older video but I just got a first roll back from an Olympus OM-1 and I thought I was the only one who felt that twinge of disappointment at how “normal” the photos looked 😅 I downloaded them into my phone and to be honest they blended right with my phone photos. I don’t know what I was hoping for .. something more.. film-y?
The ai for content aware crop is trash. I only use it when the content at the edge is super simple. For instance if you actually look at her left shoe it looks crazy. Can’t wait for that to improve! Thanks for this!
That’s feedback I often have for myself as well! I’m rarely in studio, my style is a bit more run n’ gun + off the cuff - freestyling with musicians (not models) so with more bandwidth going towards directing and improvising; I regularly biff my framing/focus if I’m moving too fast! content aware crop has definitely saved my ass many times 👻
When I talked to Sam Dameshek about Jack's work he told me he talked to Jack and he told Sam he would sometimes use up to 15 strobes for one single shot. So yeah, kind of hard to replicate.
When you’re using 15 strobes, at least 10 of them would be used for gobos, background fill, gelled color rimming etc. you aren’t going to shoot 15 at a model because that would be useless
