The Moment of Light

Sometimes, or rather very often, I’ve no inspiration on the post-editing for the photo that I took, especially those that do not have strong theme or early planning ahead.

There’s a trick that I’ve learned sometime back on the internet (can’t recall the website) show how the Color Match in Photoshop can be useful to tweak your photo to match with famous art work. I have trial and find it really useful. It really change the photo characteristic and sometime it spike my creativity and bring the photo back to life or give it another level of altitude.

What it does is to bring the color theme from the art painting and match with your photo, that change the mood of the photo dramatically. For example:

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Orginal Photo

Soft: Romance

While I’m struggling looking for my next photo assignment, I took a break tonight and spent some great time consolidate my customise Lightroom preset.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is my ‘current’ favourite digital darkroom, the making of photograph become a fun process and free up my image.

Version 0.1

This version of preset are design to be use on portrait and in very basic form of mood, I’m working on other contemporary and classy theme.

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Recent volunteer work for an exhibition on large size printing work allowed myself better understand of digital files and final print output. There’s more galleries or exhibitions today are acceptance to inkjet printing with it’s fine and flexibility output. While inkjet technology today give a huge advantage over the large scale printing, advanced amateur photographer who want to make the large print may still find themselves trapped in the image size limit of what Digital SLR provide today.

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