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Author: Eric Curry
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Exploring techniques that will work with the materials that photographers already have on hand, the author designs images through thorough planning and creativity that depict his subjects in breathtaking and unexpected ways that would be impossible without the approach detailed in this photography guide. In addition to the inspiration of the artistry itself, photographers will learn how to push digital imaging to its extremes, taking full advantage of a potential that is largely underutilized. The book covers all the materials photographers should be familiar with and have on hand for their shoot and helps construct sessions that will often involve a full night of photography to create a single final image, and then explores the actual camera and lighting techniques used to produce images. Painting with light is a technique that allows photographers to work in areas with no, or very low, light and then either selectively apply "pops" of light to their subject and setting using a variety of different light sources and modifiers, orchestrate a sequence of light pops during a single long exposure, or—most commonly—create a lengthy sequence of digital captures with a single pop of light illuminating a specific feature of the scene in each. Because they are made without moving the camera, these images can then be combined in postproduction to provide the ultimate in creative control. The composites for several final images are included, showing how the individual captures are treated in Photoshop layers and seamlessly blended to create one highly refined final image.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Download Painting with Light: Lighting & Photoshop Techniques for Photographers [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 4677 KB
- Print Length: 160 pages
- Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (September 1, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009K8ZF8K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I was fortunate enough to meet Eric Curry when he spoke to the Santa Clarita Valley Photographers Association in early 2012. About 50 photographers attended that meeting, and were entranced and impressed as Curry demonstrated his complex techniques for painting with light. The combination of dozens (or hundreds) of photographs and tens of hours of post-processing appealed to both the get-it-in-camera purists and the Photoshop geeks.
Curry's richly detailed, painterly images, painstakingly created, are a joy to behold, with a realism that evokes Hockney, an American spirit that evokes Rockwell, and an attention to minutiae that Hieronymous Bosch would have been proud of. While photographers often use the term "painting with light" to describe illuminating a time-exposure subject with a handheld light, in Curry's case, the phrase could also apply to the result, as the images look like a surreal mix of painted art and photograph. Curry's technique of laying down light via multiple exposures is not unlike an oil painter's layering of pigment with a brush or knife.
So, it was with some anticipation that I opened Curry's "Painting with Light: Lighting & Photoshop? Techniques for Photographers."
In the true spirit of information-sharing popularized by Websites and blogs like Strobist, Curry generously gives away the family jewels, the keys to the Bentley, and the secret sauce, describing in extreme detail precisely how he goes about creating, shooting and processing his richly detailed art.
Although Curry has attempted to write the book such that a complete photographic novice could attempt his techniques, make no mistake about it: It may be simple, but it is not easy. Only the photographically rigorous need apply!