This is a wonderful tutorial. I never feel like I've wasted my time when I spend a half an hour watching your films and I really appreciate the depth you explore on each topic.
I guess Im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the login password. I love any help you can offer me
@Joseph Kellen thanks for your reply. I found the site on google and Im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
This is an excellent tutorial. With Sean, I always get the feeling that he treats his audience with respect and as intelligent adults. He is a natural teacher - you only realise what a rare skill this is when you watch other photography tutorials on RUclips (which in my opinion cannot compare). The timing is close to perfect, neither too fast nor too slow. What he has to say is always interesting even when it is not entirely unfamiliar. In particular. I love the way he brings in so many other perspectives from the world of visual arts (not just photography).
Brilliant as always! It never ceases to amaze me how I can watch hours somewhere else on a topic and have a tenuous grasp, then watch you and go..."that makes total sense". Thanks Sean!
I stumbled upon your vlogs and so glad I did. I have been shooting for decades and at 67 I am still learning something new every day. These Dodge and Burn techniques are some of the best I have seen and will be incorporating them into my editing process. Not a portrait photographer but I can see these techniques being useful for even wildlife and landscapes. A new subscriber! Thanks Sean!
This tutorial is fantastic... I never understood why masks were a big deal in layers... this now makes sense, it gives you complete control and flexibility without hitting undo on all your previous actions. This just changed my process for the better! Very grateful! Also, your phrase at one point, "cleaning up the light" sums the whole process up perfectly.
"Just a tuck" Tucker said 😁 Thank you so much. I appreciate your work or should I say the art of photography and storytelling and teaching. Every video I learned about photography about me and about mentality. It's like mediation. Everytime before I watch a new video I don't have a question. But after that I come back in my Life and ask myself something what about I never think about. Thank you very much
Sean, This was one of the most useful tutorials I have watched. Your explanations were precise,but not too quick that I couldn’t follow what you were doing. Thank you.
Sean, once again a totally useful and informative tutorial. For years, I have obsessed about light and shadow even to the extent of studying the old masters of light and shadow (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Renoir, etc). So, these types of tutorials are highly valuable to me. I especially like the way you recap everything at the end because many times small tidbits of info blow by so quickly. The recaps are something I have not seen in many tutorials - so thanks for that...Excellent...loved every minute.
Extremely helpful, and great history of dodging and burning. Even understanding the origin of the photoshop icons! It’s the subtle details that sets off a photograph, and it’s no different for these videos. Also listening to you speak reminds me of “art attack”. Can’t wait to try out these new techniques. Please continue to inspire!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for a really good tutorial! A few different techniques that works great is way better than an avalanche of different techniques that you instantly forget!
An excellent video and lesson for beginner like me and I think for more advanced ones as well. I've got one thing what I caught watching this awesomely practical lesson. I got impression that the second pic looks like taken a game from after remade it there, natural but this impression is still with me. The first one looks perfectly of course I can say about secound one the same but like I mentioned a bit too much game style. Anyway, fantastic matrial to learn the advanced things in photography I do love your look at the photography and it is inspiration for my doing in. Thank you for the tutorial.
Hi Sean, I just wanted to take the time to say I have watched about 3 of your vlogs so far and they are outstanding. Your instructions are clear and your thought processes are incredibly helpful, not to mention inspirational. I look forward to watching the rest. Happy holidays to you and your family! John Pouw NZ
OUTSTANDING VIDEO Sean. Thank you so much for sharing this. I seldom do portraits but I can see myself applying these techniques to my next set of images.
Just watching the intro. Once again you found the exact theme I was interested in. This is not the first time, I don't know ho you do ot, but if you have my search history, I can explain😁😁😁
I was doing some D&B last week in the darkroom as part of a workshop to learn the basics about printing. Such an amazing experience making my own prints! I really recommend to all of you interested in photography to try it. Thanks for this video!
Great explanation of the origins of dodging and burning that makes me grateful for digital image manipulation. For me this video highlights the fact that no matter what tools we choose as part of our process to get the results we want, our chosen process is all about visually judging and accepting, rejecting, or adjusting the edits until we are happy (or not) with the results, in a way having an ongoing conversation with the image to achieve a mutually agreed upon "just right" photo. Or sometimes just dumping it because the picture itself just says "meh" too all our suggested edits and the file goes in the dumpster, or is maybe saved for a later try at enhancing what we might be able to find and enhance. Just wanted to add that this video nudged me to learn CR more in depth, since I have Lynda.com access through work. Turns out (who knew?) that CR is "at the heart of all Adobe's photo editing software." Anyway, as always, superb video with lotsa food for thought. Thank you.
Really loved the intro for this. When I did film photography in art school I quit long before I got the chance to experiment with dodging and burning. I'd love to watch a film on how the process was done back then - but .... I guess it was too dark in the dark room to film hehe.
Having used all these methods I’ve settled mostly on the gray layer. But I prefer to D & B on one layer. For starters it’s quicker. You can switch back and forth between D & B with the alt key. And secondly, I like to apply a little Gaussian blur to blend the dodging and burning to make it even more subtle. And then you can adjust the opacity of just the one layer.
Whatever works for you. Personally I like to have the control over the separate layers afterwards so I can dial them in to taste and not have them locked together.
Totally get that. Having one layer, apart from being faster because you can d&b at the same time, lets me see the interaction immediately. In the end, if you keep the effect subtle as you rightly suggest, the difference is minimal.
All these years, I never knew that’s what those little icons were, your work here is done👍. The rest was pretty good too 😁. Really liking the lighting of the room.
Hi Sean, regarding the 50%grey technique: i've always been told that overlay blend mode works greak for burn & softlight for dodge because the results are more sutile in each aspect. Also the dodge/burn/sponge tool is not necessary for this, you can go straight with the white/black brush. In fact the mentioned tool works awesomely great(i use it all the time in landscape) on non adjustment layers where you can combine selectively dodge/burn/saturate-desaturate Vs. shadows/mids/highlights using the top left selector, problem is that is a destructive way editing but hey, nothing is perfect :) thx for the info & your work uploading useful videos! :D
Can I give you a humble advice, try to switch the key and the fill on your face so the key light on your face is motivated from the lamp on the left. It will make your lighting look much more realistic. I love your work by the way.
Thanks mate but it's not how I light. Motivated from one light on the same side, and that light being tungsten is not the look I'm after at all. I want a key and a rim, and I want the colour contrast.
I love how you are so unlike many other photography youtubers that just spurt out vid upon vid about nothing much at all. EVERY SINGLE ONE of your vids is full of quality and interest (not to mention a TON of creativity). So even though you may not have millions of subscribers, know that EVERY subscriber you have FULLY SUPPORTS you, instead of just subscribing and then never bothering to watch any of your vids.
@@seantuck that's alright:) My dad just slammed my dream of being a photographer. He thinks it's just a hobby and that I should do something else with my life. (I'm 16). I'm pretty devastated but I feel like I just have to slog through the hard parts and push on with my passion. Still, it's pretty disheartening when your parents (or one of them) is dead set against your dream :( That's why I love your channel so much, I guess. Beacuse you show the world that photography is something full of such complex beauty and creativity. So I guess the whole point of this is to say thank you, thank you so much for sharing your videos with everyone out there. It really does mean the world to some of us.
There’s nothing wrong with getting a career in something else as well. I had a whole different career 10 years ago and I was only doing photography on the side. It took me a long time to build photography to the point where it paid the bills: probably about 15 years. I know your Dad’s advice is frustrating, but at least you will have something to pay the bills in the meantime, and something to fall back on... and in the meantime there is nothing to stop you shooting a ton and getting really good. If you find one day that people are so impressed by your work that they are willing to pay your for it, then you can start to transition across full time. Good luck.
Sean is definitely the one photographer who speaks to my soul and each video/tutorials he puts out, are probably the most helpful, insightful and comprehensive out here on RUclips when it comes to photography and the philosophy that shines through it. Thank you so much Sean for yet another beautiful and helpful video.
As usual.. Sean ... u laid it out easy .. followed u crystal clear .. but am pretty confident of messing up a few experimental portraits ! ... will prob choose a few politicians that am unhappy with .. will "burn" em 1st, & then do the "dodge" !!! Ha ha.. cheers, vernon_alvares
Hi Sean. I suspect that these three approaches have slightly differing effects, which makes the suite of them very powerful. For example, it looks to me that masking in a curve that has been pulled up in the center would affect mid tones more than the extremes. The multiply / screen approach would affect more the extremes than the mid tones. The 50% gray layer would have neither such bias. What do you think? Am I thinking about these techniques accurately? Is it born out in practice? Thank you.
Sean, I just want to say that of all the photography channels and tutorials online you are by far the most inspiring and articulate of them all. Your deeply personal and philosophical approach cuts through the pretentious BS of the art world. From a fellow Saffa, introvert and photographer it always makes me happy to see one of us doing something special in the world. Your videos will stand the test of time as does all great advice.Thanks brother!!
I've been doing photography for about 50 years. It's fun to hear how you have to explain what an enlarger is, photo paper, film, etc. Now if you could just explain to me why my phone has settings such as ISO, Shutter speed, and Aperture. None of which the phone actually has. :-)
Depending on Phone Make and Model, for example my Samsung S5, (quite an old phone now) has ISO and metering mode that can be user controlled. You have to access the camera settings to do it though. Hope that helps in some way?
Variable sensitivity to light and an electronic shutter your smartphone's camera most likely have, a variable aperture normally not, so it's more than convenience. This aperture setting is actually fake (aka "computational imaging") and just a convenient way to describe the effect for us "old-timers". Hmm, thinking about it - it would actually be necessary to explain to those who came to photography using a smartphone what "ISO", "shutter speed" and "aperture" mean … ;-)
@@c.augustin ISO is easy. You just grab the box that you bought at the grocery store. Look at the box and there is the ISO - set your camera for that roll. Easy. ;-)
Great video, as always. Thank you Sean! Two questions: 1) I love Fan Ho but know little about him. Are you saying he created that drama in his prints or instead, simply enhanced the existing light, as you prefer to do on your work? 2) Those portraits are wonderful. Great moments. Beautiful light. And the camera/lens combo is contributing to a great look -- lovely color and shallow DoF. May I ask what it is? Medium format? Sony FF and a 105mm 1.4? Happy holidays!
I really do enjoy it when you do a tutorial Sean, I think you said you’re not a fan of doing them, but they are super helpful valuable content. Thanks!
This is a wonderful tutorial. I never feel like I've wasted my time when I spend a half an hour watching your films and I really appreciate the depth you explore on each topic.
He truly has a gift with communication
So true! He emphasizes his word so well and really makes sure he is COMPLETELY explaining everything is such a perfect way.
I guess Im asking the wrong place but does anybody know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb forgot the login password. I love any help you can offer me
@Jacoby Sean instablaster ;)
@Joseph Kellen thanks for your reply. I found the site on google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
Sean: "When makeup artists do contouring on a face, they're basically doing dodge and burn"
Me: Mindblow!
I know right
Such a good demo. No fluff. Best demo of sculpting light.
A perfect demonstration covering dodge and burn in a remarkably comprehensive way. Well done Sean, and thanks'.
This is an excellent tutorial. With Sean, I always get the feeling that he treats his audience with respect and as intelligent adults. He is a natural teacher - you only realise what a rare skill this is when you watch other photography tutorials on RUclips (which in my opinion cannot compare). The timing is close to perfect, neither too fast nor too slow. What he has to say is always interesting even when it is not entirely unfamiliar. In particular. I love the way he brings in so many other perspectives from the world of visual arts (not just photography).
Thanks Ian. Very kind.
Ian, i agree 100%.
Thank you Sean! Have a nice day!
Every time you say "tuck" when referring to the way you're working on shadows, I can't help but think "just a little tuck, a Sean Tuck"
Petition to rename the process of Dodging and Burning to "Doing the Tucker Tuck"
Love your honesty Sean, very well made and useful video. Thanks. 😊
As an amature in this photoshop world, this video is by far, the best tutorial on D&B . Thank you Sean.
I was fortunate to learn black & white film processing & photography in High School ..... the fundamentals are so important...
This is a fantastic introduction to not just dodge and burn, but photoshop's endless tools - adding the makeup 'map' as a guide was genius! SUBSCRIBED
Brilliant as always! It never ceases to amaze me how I can watch hours somewhere else on a topic and have a tenuous grasp, then watch you and go..."that makes total sense". Thanks Sean!
Thanks Debby. That's great to hear.
Your dedication to teaching is remarkable. Thank you.
Thanks Eric:)
I stumbled upon your vlogs and so glad I did. I have been shooting for decades and at 67 I am still learning something new every day. These Dodge and Burn techniques are some of the best I have seen and will be incorporating them into my editing process. Not a portrait photographer but I can see these techniques being useful for even wildlife and landscapes. A new subscriber! Thanks Sean!
Thanks Gary, and welcome:)
The best tutorial of dodge and burn !! Thank you so much Sean 🙏🙏
You are a natural teacher. I loved the way you linked history with today’s technology. Clear and easy to understand. Many thanks.
Pure knowledge, that old school dodge and burn in the film era is just awesome
Excellent! Again! As always! Thanks a lot.
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial
Excellent. Thank you very much Sean.
Best dodge and burn video on the RUclips University!!! Thank You
This tutorial is fantastic... I never understood why masks were a big deal in layers... this now makes sense, it gives you complete control and flexibility without hitting undo on all your previous actions. This just changed my process for the better! Very grateful!
Also, your phrase at one point, "cleaning up the light" sums the whole process up perfectly.
"Just a tuck" Tucker said 😁
Thank you so much. I appreciate your work or should I say the art of photography and storytelling and teaching.
Every video I learned about photography about me and about mentality. It's like mediation.
Everytime before I watch a new video I don't have a question. But after that I come back in my Life and ask myself something what about I never think about.
Thank you very much
WAOW, thank you for the explanation and images demonstrations of how it all was done in the dark room!
Watching Tucker tucking in some shadows - very nice
Sean, This was one of the most useful tutorials I have watched. Your explanations were precise,but not too quick that I couldn’t follow what you were doing. Thank you.
Sean, once again a totally useful and informative tutorial. For years, I have obsessed about light and shadow even to the extent of studying the old masters of light and shadow (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Renoir, etc). So, these types of tutorials are highly valuable to me. I especially like the way you recap everything at the end because many times small tidbits of info blow by so quickly. The recaps are something I have not seen in many tutorials - so thanks for that...Excellent...loved every minute.
Masterclass. Thank you so much Sean!
Sean, you are such a wealth of information. BRILLIANT tutorial!
Thanks Sean Domnhall Gleeson! :)
Extremely helpful, and great history of dodging and burning. Even understanding the origin of the photoshop icons! It’s the subtle details that sets off a photograph, and it’s no different for these videos. Also listening to you speak reminds me of “art attack”. Can’t wait to try out these new techniques. Please continue to inspire!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is amazing, I learned more in 34 minutes than years during film school. Thanks
Fantastic video... best I've seen... i understand how to dodge and burn perfectly now.. thanks
Thank you for a really good tutorial! A few different techniques that works great is way better than an avalanche of different techniques that you instantly forget!
Great tutorial, thank you so much
thank you Sean!
i agree with you doge and burn is like working with salt, also i would just do a global adjustment with layers thank you good tutorial
Excellent tutorial Sean, I spent years in the darkroom perfecting these techniques but they translate very well to Photoshop.
Less is more. Embrace the negatives. Great photography and psychology lessons. As always.
Realy Helpful! Thanks
You made my Street Photography much more interesting. Thank You Sean!
Great video! Thank you so much for taking the time to produce it!
Great video! Love the history of dodge and burn. Thanks for sharing.
An excellent video and lesson for beginner like me and I think for more advanced ones as well.
I've got one thing what I caught watching this awesomely practical lesson.
I got impression that the second pic looks like taken a game from after remade it there, natural but this impression is still with me.
The first one looks perfectly of course I can say about secound one the same but like I mentioned a bit too much game style.
Anyway, fantastic matrial to learn the advanced things in photography I do love your look at the photography and it is inspiration for my doing in.
Thank you for the tutorial.
As usual ... another great and useful video. Thanks a lot. I can’t wait to adopt these techniques.
Excellent! Thank you so much.
Hi Sean, I just wanted to take the time to say I have watched about 3 of your vlogs so far and they are outstanding. Your instructions are clear and your thought processes are incredibly helpful, not to mention inspirational. I look forward to watching the rest. Happy holidays to you and your family! John Pouw NZ
OUTSTANDING VIDEO Sean. Thank you so much for sharing this. I seldom do portraits but I can see myself applying these techniques to my next set of images.
Thanks for this Sean. This was helpful.
Great Video! Really appreciate that you shared the technique. Lot of things now made sense to me. Thank you personally.
Just watching the intro. Once again you found the exact theme I was interested in. This is not the first time, I don't know ho you do ot, but if you have my search history, I can explain😁😁😁
Sean, thank you so much for this video!
Thank you for explaining your editing.
Awesome Tutorial Thank you !!
Thank u Sean for this video, Easy nad fast technic.
This was awesome and very helpful. Literally one of the easiest to understand and apply to my images. Thank you
I was doing some D&B last week in the darkroom as part of a workshop to learn the basics about printing. Such an amazing experience making my own prints! I really recommend to all of you interested in photography to try it. Thanks for this video!
Love the techniques.
Amazing video! Thank you very much!
A great tutorial Sean. Many thanks, I’ll be trying these techniques out.
Great explanation of the origins of dodging and burning that makes me grateful for digital image manipulation. For me this video highlights the fact that no matter what tools we choose as part of our process to get the results we want, our chosen process is all about visually judging and accepting, rejecting, or adjusting the edits until we are happy (or not) with the results, in a way having an ongoing conversation with the image to achieve a mutually agreed upon "just right" photo. Or sometimes just dumping it because the picture itself just says "meh" too all our suggested edits and the file goes in the dumpster, or is maybe saved for a later try at enhancing what we might be able to find and enhance.
Just wanted to add that this video nudged me to learn CR more in depth, since I have Lynda.com access through work. Turns out (who knew?) that CR is "at the heart of all Adobe's photo editing software."
Anyway, as always, superb video with lotsa food for thought.
Thank you.
Daaaaamn! I gotta hit the studio right NOW! lol
Great content sean. Thanks
Really loved the intro for this. When I did film photography in art school I quit long before I got the chance to experiment with dodging and burning. I'd love to watch a film on how the process was done back then - but .... I guess it was too dark in the dark room to film hehe.
The only way to make black and white and gray scale photos pop in print in the good ole days of darkroom film processing.
Having used all these methods I’ve settled mostly on the gray layer. But I prefer to D & B on one layer. For starters it’s quicker. You can switch back and forth between D & B with the alt key. And secondly, I like to apply a little Gaussian blur to blend the dodging and burning to make it even more subtle. And then you can adjust the opacity of just the one layer.
Whatever works for you. Personally I like to have the control over the separate layers afterwards so I can dial them in to taste and not have them locked together.
Totally get that. Having one layer, apart from being faster because you can d&b at the same time, lets me see the interaction immediately. In the end, if you keep the effect subtle as you rightly suggest, the difference is minimal.
excellent video! first video of your's I've ever seen and an instant sub
The best dodge an burn tutorial I've ever watched.
Tks great lesson!
I don't think I really understood 'flow' until I watched this video
Same here
Maybe try to use the curves set to luminance to only change the brightness. You can change the saturation/colour of your image
with other tools later.
All these years, I never knew that’s what those little icons were, your work here is done👍. The rest was pretty good too 😁. Really liking the lighting of the room.
Thanks! Helpful stuff :)
7:18 Sean: I'm gonna take my...
Me: Horse to the old town road and I'm gonna riiiiiiide till I can't no more...
Hi Sean, regarding the 50%grey technique: i've always been told that overlay blend mode works greak for burn & softlight for dodge because the results are more sutile in each aspect. Also the dodge/burn/sponge tool is not necessary for this, you can go straight with the white/black brush. In fact the mentioned tool works awesomely great(i use it all the time in landscape) on non adjustment layers where you can combine selectively dodge/burn/saturate-desaturate Vs. shadows/mids/highlights using the top left selector, problem is that is a destructive way editing but hey, nothing is perfect :) thx for the info & your work uploading useful videos! :D
MRQirex , yes, I prefer the soft light mode. Much more subtle.
Can I give you a humble advice, try to switch the key and the fill on your face so the key light on your face is motivated from the lamp on the left. It will make your lighting look much more realistic. I love your work by the way.
Thanks mate but it's not how I light. Motivated from one light on the same side, and that light being tungsten is not the look I'm after at all. I want a key and a rim, and I want the colour contrast.
I love how you are so unlike many other photography youtubers that just spurt out vid upon vid about nothing much at all. EVERY SINGLE ONE of your vids is full of quality and interest (not to mention a TON of creativity). So even though you may not have millions of subscribers, know that EVERY subscriber you have FULLY SUPPORTS you, instead of just subscribing and then never bothering to watch any of your vids.
That’s really kind. Thanks so much:)
@@seantuck that's alright:)
My dad just slammed my dream of being a photographer. He thinks it's just a hobby and that I should do something else with my life. (I'm 16). I'm pretty devastated but I feel like I just have to slog through the hard parts and push on with my passion. Still, it's pretty disheartening when your parents (or one of them) is dead set against your dream :(
That's why I love your channel so much, I guess.
Beacuse you show the world that photography is something full of such complex beauty and creativity.
So I guess the whole point of this is to say thank you, thank you so much for sharing your videos with everyone out there. It really does mean the world to some of us.
There’s nothing wrong with getting a career in something else as well. I had a whole different career 10 years ago and I was only doing photography on the side. It took me a long time to build photography to the point where it paid the bills: probably about 15 years. I know your Dad’s advice is frustrating, but at least you will have something to pay the bills in the meantime, and something to fall back on... and in the meantime there is nothing to stop you shooting a ton and getting really good. If you find one day that people are so impressed by your work that they are willing to pay your for it, then you can start to transition across full time. Good luck.
Sean is definitely the one photographer who speaks to my soul and each video/tutorials he puts out, are probably the most helpful, insightful and comprehensive out here on RUclips when it comes to photography and the philosophy that shines through it. Thank you so much Sean for yet another beautiful and helpful video.
I’m looking forward to buying your book this time around. I missed the last one.
Top drawer content and presentation. Thank you Sean for a "game lifter".
this was without a doubt the best d/b tutorial i've come across. Thank you for your detail, time and manner.
Other channels: BuY mY MeRcH aNd LuTs...
Sean Tucker: E= m c^2
Max Lindner well, I wouldn’t mind to buy some Luts from Sean to support his channel, probably at some point it’ll come here too :)
No chance I’m afraid.
As usual.. Sean ... u laid it out easy .. followed u crystal clear .. but am pretty confident of messing up a few experimental portraits ! ... will prob choose a few politicians that am unhappy with .. will "burn" em 1st, & then do the "dodge" !!! Ha ha.. cheers, vernon_alvares
I've been using dodge and burn on Photoshop for years but seeing you use it and the methods you go through feels like I'm a newbie starting all again.
Hi Sean. I suspect that these three approaches have slightly differing effects, which makes the suite of them very powerful. For example, it looks to me that masking in a curve that has been pulled up in the center would affect mid tones more than the extremes. The multiply / screen approach would affect more the extremes than the mid tones. The 50% gray layer would have neither such bias. What do you think? Am I thinking about these techniques accurately? Is it born out in practice? Thank you.
Brilliant way of explaining. Good pace. Very useful. Thanks Sean.
Sean, I just want to say that of all the photography channels and tutorials online you are by far the most inspiring and articulate of them all. Your deeply personal and philosophical approach cuts through the pretentious BS of the art world. From a fellow Saffa, introvert and photographer it always makes me happy to see one of us doing something special in the world. Your videos will stand the test of time as does all great advice.Thanks brother!!
I've been doing photography for about 50 years. It's fun to hear how you have to explain what an enlarger is, photo paper, film, etc.
Now if you could just explain to me why my phone has settings such as ISO, Shutter speed, and Aperture. None of which the phone actually has. :-)
It's simply convenience, just like we still daily use historic slang and proverbs in an age of oil and cement :)
Depending on Phone Make and Model, for example my Samsung S5, (quite an old phone now) has ISO and metering mode that can be user controlled. You have to access the camera settings to do it though. Hope that helps in some way?
Variable sensitivity to light and an electronic shutter your smartphone's camera most likely have, a variable aperture normally not, so it's more than convenience. This aperture setting is actually fake (aka "computational imaging") and just a convenient way to describe the effect for us "old-timers". Hmm, thinking about it - it would actually be necessary to explain to those who came to photography using a smartphone what "ISO", "shutter speed" and "aperture" mean … ;-)
@@mrdev9843 Someday we will come up with better terms. ISO should probably be renamed “gain.”
@@c.augustin ISO is easy. You just grab the box that you bought at the grocery store. Look at the box and there is the ISO - set your camera for that roll. Easy. ;-)
Thank you, Sean for this video. I always use method 1 and was absolutely fascinated by method 2 & 3 watching this tutorial.
What camera lens setup do you use for studio shots like that. Your a good teacher! Learned a lot
These shots were full frame and 85mm. These days I shoot more with full frame and 50mm for portraits.
how do you use this technique to smoothen skins?
That’s called ‘micro dodge and burn’ and it’s done with tiny brushes at pore level. It’s very time consuming but effective if you have the time.
Great video, as always. Thank you Sean! Two questions:
1) I love Fan Ho but know little about him. Are you saying he created that drama in his prints or instead, simply enhanced the existing light, as you prefer to do on your work?
2) Those portraits are wonderful. Great moments. Beautiful light. And the camera/lens combo is contributing to a great look -- lovely color and shallow DoF. May I ask what it is? Medium format? Sony FF and a 105mm 1.4?
Happy holidays!
I really do enjoy it when you do a tutorial Sean, I think you said you’re not a fan of doing them, but they are super helpful valuable content. Thanks!
Another great video. I certainly relate to dodging and burning with a negative in an enlarger. Great explanation here.
This was really helpful. Right level of detail and good examples to work with.
Just excellent tutorial so clearly explained with several options given, I found it very helpful.
Great video! One question, when you edit your photos on your mobile, do you do it in RAW or Jpeg?
RAW
Brilliant advice ! Much better than some of the other convoluted videos.!
This tutorial is amazing and very helpful to me,
Tnx for that Sean
Wow... how is this information free? Thank you so much Sean!!