Lincoln... Media Production 2, landscape shoot 01

I went out during the afternoon yesterday to take some landscape images, as Lincoln finally had a cloudless day.

Before I set up I went to my local photography shop and brought myself a tripod.

I went for a Manfrotto system. I got the basic leg set and the basic 3 way head. But its such a luxury to have a great piece of kit like this that I can use when and where I want.

With my new piece of kit I headed up to a part of steep hill that I knew had a good view.

I set up my camera and got experimenting with my Cokin Filters.

I mainly used my graduated ND filters, as I found combining them with other ND filters caused a purple tint to my images.

I also gave my graduated red filter a go.

Hear are a collection of the best images from the shoot.

Lincoln... Media Production 2, studio shoot 01, more examples

Here are more images from my first shoot.

They have all had the usual Photoshop treatment including a high-pass filter.

The first one was taken using two lights and a reflector.

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The next set of images were taken with an Octa directly behind me and the model right up close to the camera. This was the only light used.

This final image was taken in a three light set up with a reflector.

Lincoln... Media Production 2, studio shoot 01, first example

Today I had a great time messing around the University's photography studio.

This was the first chance I had to get my hand on all of the lights and the white infinity wall that the studio had to offer.

This is the first image that has come out of the shoot.

I really enjoyed working on this shot as I have already learnt a lot about Photoshop from just practical use.

I will post up more shots and also start getting my work on Flickr tomorrow.

For now here is the finished shot. I used the healing brush and the clone stamp tool to remove the logo and text from the foundation tub, I plan on uploading my some of my work to istock so this was necessary. I am very happy in the way I have managed to preserve the reflection of the finger.

The final shot has had some high-pass work done to it, a great tutorial on it can be found here. 

Image 01, RAW

Image 02, Retouched

Image 03, High-Pass

Lincoln... Media Production 2, location shoot 01, before and after shots

These are the before and after shots for my first photo shoot.

The first is the untouched image and the second has had Photoshop work.

Lincoln... Media Production 2, location shoot 01, UPDATE

Here are the 3 finished images from my first shoot, as well as the first one I uploaded a while ago.

The first one has been cropped, but that is it. This was because I was happy with the quality and the colours in the image.

The new three have been edited within Photoshop.

The heal brush has been used to remove mascara sprinkles and to smooth some skin bumps.

The eyes have been treated in all three as well.

The eye area has been selected, This area has then been brushed with colour (#82bdfe). This has had feathering applied as well as some re-masking to remove overflow. Finally the layers have been set to overlay and the opacity reduced to 50%.