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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1720 on: April 21, 2015, 01:44:17 am »

Recent shot for the Wall Street Journal's new ad campaign "Make Time" SAP CEO Bill McDermott

Like your work a lot, Craig.  You connect nicely with your subjects.

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« Reply #1721 on: April 22, 2015, 08:39:10 am »

Thanks Luke!
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« Reply #1722 on: April 25, 2015, 04:06:09 pm »

New release for the gallery
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« Reply #1723 on: April 28, 2015, 03:04:52 pm »

Chris I know the bulk of your work is done by lighting but can I ask you what post work you would would typically do to a set like this? The whites look really clean and images look sharp without having an artificial rendered look.
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« Reply #1724 on: April 29, 2015, 07:06:26 pm »

One of the first things I do in post (and I learned this from grading motion footage) is to neutralize the shadows and hilights.  If those are neutral you can totally push the midtones into any balance you want and it will still look decent.  To do this, I use a Levels adjustment layer, go into each channel and bring the sliders up to the edge of the histogram.  Usually this will look great.  Sometimes I need to push the midtones in a different direction for good color and I do that with a curve layer and again targeting a specific channel.  Sometimes I also need to lift the 3/4 tones a bit.

I've never really put much effort into my sharpening.  I let Capture 1 apply it's default sharpening and then I'm done.  I never sharpen any more than that.  I see a lot stuff that looks just crazy sharpened.  What's up with that?  If you focus your camera right and shoot at a proper aperture, your stuff should be sharp.

Hope that helps.  Let me know if there was something more specific you were looking for.

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« Reply #1725 on: April 30, 2015, 01:21:03 am »

Thanks Chris. I'm getting quite a lot of work recently and am aware that my post work is a bit inconsistent and really time consuming. This gives me a good starting point. At the moment I'm using ACR or Lightroom and prefering ACR as it handles small adjustments on correcting distortion a bit better. I'm usually just adding a small amount of clarity and sharpness and then cleaning the whites up with an selection layer.
I'm often shooting without lights in galleries and museums so fairly long exposures. Can I ask, are you bracketing and if so do you join with later masks or something automated?

Thanks a lot
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1726 on: May 10, 2015, 02:18:54 pm »

Early morning shoot. 24mm tse.
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« Reply #1727 on: May 11, 2015, 10:19:41 pm »

Well there sister hotel wanted some of that too...
.. so more fun this week at 6am - to the amusement of their guests it seems - at the Galway Bay Hotel in Ireland.

Very nice shot. The sky is pretty understated, though probably accurate considering the time of day.

Is this a final or straight out of camera ?
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« Reply #1728 on: May 29, 2015, 07:44:52 am »

The lobby fireplace at the Killarney Park Hotel...

.. in the Irish county of Kerry.


That is really nice. 

You and CB have quite a few images shot considerably lower to the floor then what I would have done.  I think I need to start exploring this more. 
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« Reply #1729 on: May 29, 2015, 03:30:38 pm »

Love this last one Yelhsa, very inviting indeed. How many light did you get to use.
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« Reply #1730 on: May 30, 2015, 12:52:21 pm »

Very interesting Yelhsa.

I see in the last set of images outside that you light up the hall where the tv is and at first you got a glare on the ceiling, next image you kill the glare without altering the lower effect, how did you manage that? As I know many interior photographers run into this problem.
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« Reply #1731 on: June 01, 2015, 01:33:02 am »

or even making a fortune from being a photographer  :D
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« Reply #1732 on: June 26, 2015, 08:09:35 pm »

My work is mostly different from what most of you do. Have always been primarily advertising and editorial in bodybuilding and fitness. Although I do other work as well. From a shoot I did yesterday. Hasselblad H4D-40 iso800 80mm at 2.8. Ambient light only, overhead fluorescent and sunlight coming in from front window. Really happy with this Hasselblad.

There are some more on my Blog if you want to take a look. http://wp.me/pH8pO-yY

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« Reply #1733 on: June 26, 2015, 08:45:19 pm »

Hasselblad has a really pleasant color. I like how the Kodak sensor.
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« Reply #1734 on: June 26, 2015, 09:04:58 pm »

Same here! Although I had not thought about it being a Kodak sensor. Having used pretty much all of the MFD's except the new Pentax, I really just kept coming back to the Hasselblad. And the more I use it the more I am really happy with it for a lot of reasons!

Hasselblad has a really pleasant color. I like how the Kodak sensor.
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« Reply #1735 on: June 26, 2015, 10:15:20 pm »

I've rented the H4D-40 with the 28mm lens for interiors. The combination of camera, sensor and Phocus software are amazing.
The reds and oranges are sweet.
Petty there are not Till Shift solutions on the wider side.
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Re: Recent Professional Works 2
« Reply #1736 on: June 27, 2015, 04:47:04 am »

You can go a little wider with the horrendously expensive 24mm.
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« Reply #1737 on: June 27, 2015, 07:37:17 pm »

Just went to your website... incredible work, WOW!

Hasselblad has a really pleasant color. I like how the Kodak sensor.
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« Reply #1738 on: June 27, 2015, 09:46:33 pm »

Thank you Ian.
You do great work too!
I see you use Mamiya as well.
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« Reply #1739 on: June 28, 2015, 08:23:21 pm »

Thank you Ian.
You do great work too!
I see you use Mamiya as well.

Thank You!

I have been shooting my Mamiya 645AFDII with film and various digital backs. I rurally have been greatly happy with my photos from it. I really do love the camera and I have a good selection of my favorite lenses for it. I even have six film backs. Everything is in pretty much great, if not pristine, condition. And I guess I have really good working products of each. But time to move on and I went with the Hasselblad. I know all the Mamiya gear will end up just collecting dust so I guess I will start selling it off.
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