From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
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Selecting the keepers
From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
Selecting the keepers
- [Instructor] In this movie, I wanna talk about the selection process now that we've seen photos from the shoot, let's go through them. And let's apply some ratings to them. This one I tap one for one star. Now, why is that, what makes a photograph good? That's really the question here, right? Well for me what makes it good is there is connection. Now, the crop and composition isn't great. And unfortunately, it's just that way. I wish I was thinking smarter about this when I captured the image, but still I like it, so I tap one. Sometimes I would experiment and say, hey, you know what I think the problem is, is his face is just too small in the frame, so I just gotta do a freeform crop and get it up there, you know, or when I zoom in, even like that crop right there, that's kinda cool, right, it almost works. I'm not gonna get too sidetracked with that, but one star, might come back to. This one, not as good of expression, nope, nope, not a good expression, not connected. This one, I…
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Setting the stage2m 21s
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Reviewing the photos6m 8s
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Selecting the keepers5m 13s
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Creating a collection4m 51s
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Creating a strong black-and-white look4m 21s
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Fine-tune the look and fix the background6m 37s
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Fixing the hat8m 36s
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Content-aware cropping4m 2s
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Final Curves adjustments6m 39s
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Wrapping it all up2m 14s
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