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A guide on how to approach dodge and burn, what are you trying to fix?

March 5, 2017Joseph Parry

Dodging and Burning images is something that I see every day in photography and it seems to have two purposes: Artistic character and removing luminosity based distractions. Today I’m going to be talking about the latter, removing luminosity based distractions. I’m going to assume you already know how to do dodge and burn (and if […]

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This is how to get the painterly look in your portraits

July 10, 2016Clinton lofthouse

I recently organised and executed a cover shoot for Uk alternative magazine Twisted Edge. It features the usual alternative lifestyle elements such as girls with tattoos, rock bands, movie reviews and various Uk alt photographers. Having read many alt …

How To Create A Dodge And Burn Photo Signature

February 29, 2016Stefan Kohler

If you want to understand how a photo was worked on, one great way it to generate a Dodge & Burn mask (or a D&B signature). You can then use this signature to learn quite a bit about the dodge and burn that was done on a photo. You get a better “feel” for the […]

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Dodge & Burn – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

November 2, 2015Stefan Kohler

If you split an image into its most basic components, you can look at each pixel as the sum of the following info: Brightness Color Tone Saturation If we look at a black and white photo for example, one only element present in the photo is brightness. So any three-dimensionality is determined exclusively by the (relative) […]

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