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Tutorial 12, Chapter 3 - Singer Island Sunrise

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This week we do some more brush work on beefing up the colours in our photograph and improve the structure of the picture by strengthening the leading lines. We also pre-announce our upcoming competition and show off last week's entries to the Creativity Exercise assignment. And boy oh boy what a lot of pictures that was!
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Tutorial 12, Chapter 1 - Singer Island Sunrise

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Starting a new tutorial and getting back in the saddle for the new year. This week we look at another collection of images and talk about how I chose the target image in Adobe Bridge then open and export it in Adobe Camera Raw. We also talk about Leading Lines in our composition segment, Martin Bailey's competition and a couple of new podcasts.
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Tutorial 4, Chapter 3 - Chair-o-plane

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Today we have part three, the final part of our chair-o-plane image. Today we look at more dodging and burning, lightening shadows, tweaking saturation and brightness and adding a vignette. I also correct a mistake from last week's show where I talked about selecting highlights. Todays show is longer and wafflier than ever! Sorry about that, I'll try and get my running time more under control in future. I need some kind of stopwatch while I'm recording. :)
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Tutorial 4, Chapter 2 - Chair-o-plane

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Today we finally get started on editing our latest image, Chair-o-plane, in photoshop. We start by combining elements of 2 different images to get the shot we intended. Then we work on bringing levels closer together by dimming highlights and selectively brightening and adding contrast. This is the second chapter of a three part tutorial.
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Tutorial 4, Chapter 1 - Chair-o-plane

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Today sees the start of our fourth tutorial. This is one that was chosen by me. We do one chosen by you next so keep voting on the photowalkthrough.com homepage. This image was taken this weekend when my wife and I visited  friends in Swindon. I was totally won over by the quality of this little fairground and since I've been carrying my new camera (5D - yay!) with me everywhere I took a whole bunch of pictures. This one was a particular favourite and gives me the chance to demonstrate a couple of new tricks as well as reinforcing some old ones and talking an awful lot more about ways to approach the post processing of an image. In fact this video is pretty heavy on talk and a little lighter on photoshop than I would like but still contains what I hope is some useful discussion about photography, collections, scoring and analysing images and converting from RAW.
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Tutorial 3, Chapter 3 - Cheshire Sky Panorama

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Chapter 3 of Tutorial 3 covers cropping, levelling, spot editing and adding contrast to the image. This is a long one, recorded at about 2am and I rambled on for quite a long time - sorry about that. But you do get to see quite a lot of my personal technique and approach in addition to the basic "how-to" style information. As always, feedback is appreciated and I encourage you to join the Flickr group and post some of your work there. As it turns out there will need to be a Chapter 4 to this Tutorial, which will cover dodging and burning the sky as well as sky gradients and some work on the colours.
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Tutorial 3, Chapter 1 - Cheshire Sky Panorama

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Tutorial 3 starts today. This time I'm working on a panoramic image taken when I saw some very dramatic and interesting colours in the sky. I'll show you working with multiple RAW files, exporting to JPG using image processor, stitching with AutoStitch and then final processing to add colour and contrast in photoshop.
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