Dave Hill’s Adventure Series – DeConstructed!

I’m sure those of you who has an interest in photography would have known who is Dave Hill by now. For those of you who doesn’t, click on his name to get to his site and check out some of his work! One of his more popular series of work is his Adventure series. For a guy who use plenty of lights in his work and multiple work process on site and in his post procesing, this video of what he did was simply amazing!

Wish I have his mad photoshop skills, definitely something that we can learn both his way of lighting his subjects and the way he does his post processing. Don’t you think so? Here’s my attempt at trying to re-create his photoshop style even though he has changed his style alot!

What do you think?

Photoshop Content-Aware

One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, heres an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. How might you use this new capability in your workflow?

After watching the video, with April 1st just around the corner. I do wonder if it’s really a huge elaborate April Fool’s joke or not. What do you think?

Happy 20th Birthday Adobe Photoshop!

As a long time user of Adobe Photoshop from my college days til now. I want to say a HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP!

Here’s an interview with John Knolls, one of the founder developer of the Photoshop software designers and photographers so rely on in their work.

My first foray into using the Photoshop was back when it was still in version 3.0. That was also the time when I first encountered this CPU known as the Mac or the one I used, the PowerPC. It was all part of my studies where I had to learn how to use it along with Adobe Illustrator for my graphic design assignments. I never used it though for photography purposes back then as we had to do it the old fashion way using the Dark Room where we learn how to develop the photos. So in essence, my first experience with Photoshop was more to using it to tweak and design stuff that is used for posters and all. Apart from that, my knowledge with Photoshop when it comes to image/photo manipulation is as good as zero. (more…)

We Built This City

The following series of photos, I decide to turn into a little short unprofessionally edited video. Instead of just a normal set, I decide to turn the photos into tilt-shift but due to the fact that I’m poor and don’t own such lens, I have to fake it all through photoshop. Here’s the end result.

What do you think? The photos was shot, edited and made into a movie over a period of 3 months. But if you were to calculate the hours spend, I only spend an hour each week I work on the photos. Hopefully I’ll be able to capture some using a proper tilt-shift lens and compare the result between one that is photoshopped and one that is straight off the camera.

Real or Fake?

Have a look at these photos, in your opinion before you scroll down past the images, tell me, do you think these images are of model sets or real construction vehicles?

So after the first photo, what do you think? (more…)