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Wedding photography – Retouching & style

December 1, 2009 Neil vN 40 Comments

Wedding photography - Retouching & style

My style in wedding photography veers towards the more straight-forward image - uncluttered and without much Photoshop work done. I really believe that the more you fudge with a photograph, the more likely it would not be as timeless as you might want it to be. Retouching styles become dated. So I tend towards the more straight-forward rendition of a photograph. That said, you can most definitely enhance the original photograph to make it really pop. Here is an example - a favorite image from a sequence taken during the romantic  Read more inside...

Photoshop tips – making your images pop – soft-light layer

November 30, 2009 Neil vN 23 Comments

Photoshop tips - making your images pop - soft-light layer

As much as I am a firm believer in getting it as close as possible in camera, by using proper exposure and proper camera settings, and good light .. most often an image can be enhanced in Photoshop with a few simple techniques. There is an entire industry built around software and plug-ins and add-ons and action sets for Photoshop to enhance and manipulate images in Photoshop.  However, I'd first like to go over some of the simpler ones that you can use in Photoshop without additional software. These Photoshop  Read more inside...

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