September 13, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
If you missed it the recording can now be viewed above.
The Camden Conference and Camden Public Library host internationally renowned photographer John Paul Caponigro, who will share his images from six voyages to Greenland and contrasts them with twelve voyages to Antarctica including his personal adventure stories, conversations with scientists, and facts about the region.
Live via Zoom on September 15 at 6:30 pm.
Find out more about Camden Conference here.
Category: Event - Online Tags: arctic, camden conference, camden library, Climate Change, culture, Destination - Iceland, greenland, ice, Photography, svalbard, zoom
Any image can support an unimaginable number of color variations. So how do you find them? Systematically make many variations. Will it take a great deal of time? It will take a little time but not a lot (maybe five or ten minutes) – and it will take less time and you’ll more thoroughly explore the possibilities if you do this systematically. You’ll find this exploration will be time very well spent. Illuminating more possibilities than you imagined will help you find more creative and personally fulfilling solutions for your images. You’ll deepen your understanding of and personal relationship with color thus your images and by extension yourself. Those who view your works will feel the difference. I can tell you from many years of personal experience that it has made all the difference in the world to me. It will do the same for you.
Before you begin …
Start With Your Strongest Image(s)
When you’re processing a number of related images it’s likely that you’ll find the solutions you choose for the strongest image in the set will apply to the others, with minor modifications. It’s rare to have images in a series with widely divergent color palettes.
Plan To Make Many Copies
Don’t try and remember all of these possibilities; there will be too many to remember.
Instead make copies that you can make side-by-side comparisons with. (In Lightroom make virtual copies. Alternately, in Photoshop duplicate files.) It will help if you organize these copies into Collections in Lightroom or organize them (possibly with folders) in Bridge/Photoshop.
Find The Big Picture, Sweat The Details Later
Ditch your perfectionist tendencies – for now. Worry more about the moves you’re making in color that the tools you’re using to make them with. Don’t get lost in the details, instead focus on the big picture. Avoid getting distracted by one exciting possibility. Instead of rushing to finished results and committing to the most obvious solution too quickly, spend a few minutes exploring more possibilities hoping to find better solutions. More often than not, you will.
So what’s the best way to do this?
Proceed In This Order – Saturation, Luminosity, Hue
With only three elements of color, you wouldn’t think there could be so many possibilities, but the very things that generate them also make finding them manageable. You’ll quickly find the major moves that can be made if you make changes in these three elements in this order – saturation, luminosity, and hue.
Read more
Category: Color - Adjustment Tags: adobe, Color, color palettes, exploration, palettes, Software - Lightroom, Software - Photoshop, variations, virtual copies, workflow
September 13, 2020 | 11 Comments |
The vast majority of resources you’ll find for creating successful color palettes, whether in print or online, will catalog a great number of compelling color combinations with some rhyme but little reason. When you look at them, not understanding the logic behind their choices, it’s tempting to think that anything goes. (And it might in certain contexts and for the specific reasons. But which ones?) Sometimes they drift into color psychology but quickly become so subjective they lose all sense of objectivity or universality. The best of them identify visual dynamics that you can use to exert some influence over the direction takes in and gives to your images.
What I’m offering you here is different. This is a strategy. Not a rule but a principle.
It can be boiled down to one sentence, “Make one element of color dominant by putting more contrast in it.”
With only three elements of color, this rubric offers you three main palettes that you can draw endless permutations from plus two notable exceptions.
When you reflect on your choice of palette, you’ll gain insights into the themes contained of your images.
Before I detail these five palettes …
It helps to understand some of the dynamics of color. Good things come in threes; there are three types of color, three elements of color, and three kinds of contrast.
3 Types Of Color
There are three types of color – ideal, ambient, and synthetic.
Category: Color - Theory Tags: Color, palettes, strategy
September 8, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
Julianne Kost shares tips and tricks for transforming images like a pro in Photoshop.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
Category: Video - Adobe Photoshop Tags: adobe, distortion, perspective correction, rescale, Software - Photoshop, transform
September 2, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
Julianne Kost shares 5 Reasons to use Smart Filters showing you how to edit, mask, stack, move, duplicate, and change blend mode and the opacity of Smart Filters.
Read my 4 Reasons To Use Smart Filters.
Category: Video - Adobe Photoshop Tags: adobe, julianne kost, smart filters, Software - Photoshop
August 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
In this freewheeling conversation I range widely through my life in photography, my influences, and my projects (in particular what I've been doing during quarantine). Seth Resnick, Jeff Schewe, and Michael Newler pipe in profusely. Seth embarrasses me with whacky candids at the end.
Find past Cornicello conversations here.
Find upcoming Cornicello conversations here.
Category: Video - Photography Tags: conversation, Jeff Schewe, john cornicello, michael newler, seth resnick
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