Quick Note about Post Production Styling

August 11th, 2009 by Kris

We’re super busy over here this week with 4 shoots and 2 client presentations, but I did want to drop this little note about processing an image post. As much bad press as “fixing it” in photoshop has gotten, sometimes it’s the only way to achive a look or in some cases “save” an image. Take a quick look at these before and after shots…

(Before)

big-john-no-retouch

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Shooting Big in a Small Space

August 4th, 2009 by Kris

One of the greatest assets to photography is, it’s not real.

Let me qualify that statement, not everything that shows up in front of the camera is real, or better yet the stuff that we leave out of the frame maybe more important than the stuff we put in the frame!! That makes me think of that quote from Hemingway, “It’s not what you write that’s important; It’s what you leave out.” Off on a tangent there, sorry, let’s talk about making a little space feel big!

Take a look at this image first.

Sound Haven Control Pannel

This is the control panel of my buddy Chris Havens of The Sound Haven.

This images does the simple task of making the space feel clean and, well, spacious. Let’s talk about the techniques here! I did three things here to help make the space feel larger:

  1. a wide angle lens
  2. directional shadows
  3. negative space

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