From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
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Wrapping it all up
From the course: Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish
Wrapping it all up
- Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed seeing that process. In this final movie I'm wanna provide you with a couple of reflections, and then give you some ideas on how you might start to take what we've talked about here in this chapter with these images, and apply that to your own workflow. All right, well, first of all, I think the biggest and perhaps most important thing is this. Photography is a process. It's a process that starts before you even have your camera in hand. It's about how you think about the subject. Next, it's about your camera work and being technically strong with how your camera operates, and being able to use it in a way to capture strong images. In portraits, it's also about making that connection with the subject. Then after you've done all that, it's about getting back to your computer and having vision. Having that vision that there is a good image somewhere in this mess of photographs, and I am gonna find it, come hell or high water, and I'm gonna make that…
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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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