Thanks for the content! I'm trying to educate myself on more advanced editing skills while at the same time not overcooking my images. I love working in B&W and being able to look at other photographers' editing approach is really helpful. Definitely thinking of going back to some things I shot last summer and felt vaguely dissatisfied with and seeing if I can apply what I've learned.
Love the mono tryptich. Sometimes it is difficult to decide in what direction you are going to process images. If this is the case, it can be helpful to think of (and possibly write down) adjectives that you feel when looking at it. This may help you to decide on the way forward. I recollect that you said a notebook can be useful in the field for noting down what it is attracting you about a subject. Perhaps you could also refer to this to see how you felt at the time? I also take away how a square or 4:5 aspect ratio can contain these intimate photos. Something I need to do better but not always easy when your camera only shoes 3:2 !
Thanks again, Alister, nice careful editing! The last picture looks real crazy to me, like a background from a science fiction film or a cover of a prog album😉.
The B&W triptych is absolutely stunning, and it's great to be talked through your processing. There are many aspects of the process that I recognise, though to acquire the confidence to close an image for now without having doubts about this or that, or about the technique to achieve it, I imagine, takes many years of experimentation and hard work. Awesome!
Such a helpful video! Especially exploring colored filters when converting to black and white. I never thought about that. Now to my editing lair to play around with some Spain images!
Love the render you managed to create on the first in B@W, as i do the second. The third photo is something , that i do also on occasion just for the artistic interpretation that it can yield, but you have seemed to manage that slight of hand, in that one wouldn't realise that it was flipped. Very nice work by the way and am sure you've loads more from the trip👍
Thank you Alister! Great photos from a beautiful area, and they work wonderfully in b&w, so I’m going to try that on some of mine too… In the first photo, I think I would be too fixed on the orange of the rocks and the blue of the reflection on water to even think about doing b&w, which I can clearly see would be a mistake…
I didn't realize the D850 actually discards the excess portion of the RAW file when you crop in-camera. I guess you really have to commit to that composition in the field. Do you ever maybe leave extra room in the composition for possible re-cropping in post?
I'd love to see you use, for example, Capture One for some of your editing. While some of the basic concepts you use here can be translated to C1, not all the PS tools are applicable there, which causes 'gaps' in your processes for anyone using C1 and trying to follow your methodology. I often feel some of these videos are more 'lessons on using PS' than purely editing techniques.
On that first image instead of a "virtual copy" you could have just taken a "Snapshot" I saw a tutorial on it somewhere, I'll look it out for you 🤣😇 The 3rd I was trying to see the sand as the water/foam as I said on the FB post but I couldn't see it, then you flipped it! Bingo! The finished result on all three are 👌👋 Thanks.
Yes, indeed! Lots of tips and I too love the geometry and sculptural textures of the final three images. Fabulous! 🖖
Love the photos
awesome, thanks
That middle image of sand textures is strikingly interesting, I love the monochrome treatment.
Great experience. Loved all but the last frame has taken me into the void...
Thanks for the content! I'm trying to educate myself on more advanced editing skills while at the same time not overcooking my images. I love working in B&W and being able to look at other photographers' editing approach is really helpful. Definitely thinking of going back to some things I shot last summer and felt vaguely dissatisfied with and seeing if I can apply what I've learned.
Great editing! I love when multiple photos just "fit" together. Great images, esp. the one at 19:03.
Great advice.. thanks for sharing 🙏🏽
Love the mono tryptich. Sometimes it is difficult to decide in what direction you are going to process images. If this is the case, it can be helpful to think of (and possibly write down) adjectives that you feel when looking at it. This may help you to decide on the way forward. I recollect that you said a notebook can be useful in the field for noting down what it is attracting you about a subject. Perhaps you could also refer to this to see how you felt at the time? I also take away how a square or 4:5 aspect ratio can contain these intimate photos. Something I need to do better but not always easy when your camera only shoes 3:2 !
Really nice! Simple, powerful, easy. Thank you.
Thanks again, Alister, nice careful editing! The last picture looks real crazy to me, like a background from a science fiction film or a cover of a prog album😉.
The B&W triptych is absolutely stunning, and it's great to be talked through your processing. There are many aspects of the process that I recognise, though to acquire the confidence to close an image for now without having doubts about this or that, or about the technique to achieve it, I imagine, takes many years of experimentation and hard work. Awesome!
Absolutely love it. Thanks for sharing your workflow!
Very nice.... yes, i picked up a lot of tips....
Such a helpful video! Especially exploring colored filters when converting to black and white. I never thought about that. Now to my editing lair to play around with some Spain images!
Hey, welcome home. Hope you’ve had a marvellous time ❤️
Love the render you managed to create on the first in B@W, as i do the second.
The third photo is something , that i do also on occasion just for the artistic interpretation that it can yield, but you have seemed to manage that slight of hand, in that one wouldn't realise that it was flipped.
Very nice work by the way and am sure you've loads more from the trip👍
Thank you Alister! Great photos from a beautiful area, and they work wonderfully in b&w, so I’m going to try that on some of mine too… In the first photo, I think I would be too fixed on the orange of the rocks and the blue of the reflection on water to even think about doing b&w, which I can clearly see would be a mistake…
I didn't realize the D850 actually discards the excess portion of the RAW file when you crop in-camera. I guess you really have to commit to that composition in the field. Do you ever maybe leave extra room in the composition for possible re-cropping in post?
No, I almost always crop in camera. I may make a couple of versions, but generally just commit.
I'd love to see you use, for example, Capture One for some of your editing. While some of the basic concepts you use here can be translated to C1, not all the PS tools are applicable there, which causes 'gaps' in your processes for anyone using C1 and trying to follow your methodology. I often feel some of these videos are more 'lessons on using PS' than purely editing techniques.
On that first image instead of a "virtual copy" you could have just taken a "Snapshot" I saw a tutorial on it somewhere, I'll look it out for you 🤣😇
The 3rd I was trying to see the sand as the water/foam as I said on the FB post but I couldn't see it, then you flipped it! Bingo!
The finished result on all three are 👌👋 Thanks.