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How I take my photos

15 Aug

yes I have a tendency to ramble 🙂 The other thing I forgot to mention (sorry it was late when I recorded this), I DO edit all of my photos. By editing, I mean Adobe Bridge and sometimes Photoshop. I use CS3. I had issues with the “ethics” of this for the LONGEST time and it wasn’t until I took my photography class that I became “ok” with it. My teacher explained that every single photo in existence whether taken through film or digitally has been edited. Photoshop is a digital darkroom, Even in darkrooms, photos are edited, whether they are burned and dodged to make things darker/lighter or the exposure time is messed with etc. I take all of my photos at the largest possible resolution size and when I use my Rebel, I always shoot in RAW. If you take photos at a resolution of 600×800, they’ll be much more difficult to edit than those with a largest size of say over 2000 pixels in width. No one wants to look at acne, as it’s distracting from the overall feel of a photo. So if I have blemishes, I either burn and dodge the dark/light spots or I use the clone stamp, always with photo at 100% or more. I also sometimes burn areas to make them appear darker. The blur tool, I find, is the most overused and improperly used tool in photoshop and when/if used to edit skin (blemishes), all it does is scream that you’ve edited your photo and there’s probably a pimple beneath that blur. If you don’t know how to use photoshop, there are TONS of tutorials here on youtube. Do your

 

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