From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
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Post-processing techniques
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
Post-processing techniques
One of the themes that has surfaced throughout this course is the whole idea of creating images that match your own vision and voice, and a big part of that is post-production. It's working in Photoshop or Lightroom. So what I want to do is talk a little bit about that process. Now, my intent here isn't to teach Photoshop or Lightroom. There are plenty of other courses on that topic. Rather, what I want to do is just go through a few photographs that I captured when I was visiting Keith that I think are a bit representational, the type of adjustments or changes that I have made to the photographs in order to clarify what I want to communicate. Well, with this first picture of Keith's living room, you can see this is the photograph straight out of the camera. It looks really good. The exposure is fine, the image is nice. But what I want to do is just warm it up, add a little bit of contrast and brightness and a little bit of saturation. Make the image come alive. Here is another…
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