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Modifying the environment

Modifying the environment - Photoshop Tutorial

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Modifying the environment

(belly-dancing music) - You know, it's so funny, your subject changes everything. When you actually have a real, beautiful subject there, the sterile bits and pieces of the lighting look like, oh my God, I'm not doing this properly, it's just awful, oh my, you're just beside yourself, confronting your own ceaseless ineptitude. But then the subject gives you this gift, this subject transforms everything. When she starts to move in her beautiful and professional fashion, the photograph starts to coalesce. And that's kind of what's happening, blessedly, thankfully, right here. Now I'm making kind of an executive decision here graphically. I'm going to come in horizontally on her. I'm going to lose the floor. (shutter clicks) Alright, John, we're way too broad on our light source up here, for whatever reason. Let's move that closer to her, because by the time it's getting to her, it's really getting flooded. Unfortunately, I kind of need to stay at camera to coach you in terms of how…

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