Filed under: Photoshoot, Published, software, technique | Tags: photoshop, processing, topaz, topaz adjust
I’ve been very busy this week; though not so much in the field of photography – I’ve even resorted to going back and processing some shots from my Edinburgh Festival Fringe archives from last year…
Tales of the Apocalypse
I’ve also had a prospective client pull out of a job at the last moment, which is always a bit of a let-down; but that’s all part of the game, so I’m not too disheartened.
Last weekend, I lent my second body (Canon 20D) to a friend who’s a photography novice, to allow her to take interior shots of her rental property (far too far away up north for me to get to without training a team of huskies). She was shooting indoors without a flash, so I set things up at f/11, ISO400, Program Auto mode, auto white balance and -1/3 stop exposure compensation (knowing that I’d be bringing the detail back in Photoshop later). I stuck the 10-22mm on the 20D and gave her brief instructions before she set off.
The photos which I downloaded three days later were fine – perfect for her planned use of them. She’d been disappointed when she looked at them on the back of the camera (wow, that 20D LCD looks so tiny now…), but I processed them using Topaz Adjust, some selective masking and colour correction and she was delighted with the end result.
This goes a long way towards proving what I’ve always maintained (as well as ‘always shoot RAW‘): at least half of what makes a decent photo is in the post-processing. Just as well I enjoy that part of it as much as taking shots myself…
I’m doing a commissioned photowalk tomorrow, which should help get the library back up to date again; I’m also hoping to get out and do some more local landscape photography at the weekend, so I shouldn’t have to resort to the Fringe archives again for a while.
And I almost forgot: I did get a photo published on the Mail On Sunday website, so it wasn’t all bad news…
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