Time flies and it's already almost two months since the workshop I held down in Miyazaki. Still, in this case time is making the experience sweeter: I have the excellent memories of a few days spent in the company of an awesome bunch of people and I have pictures to work on.
One of the projects we did down in Kyushu was to produce photos for a CD. An imaginary album of music by one of our models, maybe, or an album of music inspired by the sea, coast and landscape of where we were shooting.
+andrew holian sent me in a collection of pictures, mostly of Natsuki, to consider for the layout. It turned out that Andrew's strongest pictures were of Natsuki, so that's what I went with.
Great fun editing these images and then laying them out. It took me about 30mins to do the lot. Editing-wise I used Silver Efex Pro and a custom filter I have made for it, based on the 'Pull Processing' filter that comes with the plugin. Mine has the grain taken away and the contrast and brightness wound right back. I often use this as a filter to then blend as a 'Luminosity' mode layer in colour images, which helps bring back lost highlights. This time, though, the images seemed to really fit the low-contrast mono feel.
The cover image I wound all the way back on brightness and amped the contrast. I love how it feels now.
Type added, album title and song titles created to fit the feel of the images and go with the album name.. kind of. The rest is just pure imagination on my part.
Fonts used?
NatsukiDoll = AlternateGothic2BT
Shouting Quietly & song titles = 078MKSD Medium Condensed
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Mark Esguerra
November 27, 2012
Looks great! Awesome shooting +andrew holian and great layout +Alfie Goodrich!
Natsuki Doll
November 27, 2012
I received images of Miyazaki shooting from him, I really love them!!
Subra Govinda
November 27, 2012
Brilliant shots +andrew holian and like the layout and editing +Alfie Goodrich. I have shots from recent fashion shoot which are just sitting on my HDD. Inspires to try out something new !
Giovanni Piliarvu
November 27, 2012
+andrew holian 's not a fool!
Nice!
Alfie Goodrich
November 27, 2012
Nope, he isn't +Giovanni Piliarvu. These final images are quite different to what he sent me, so I hope he'll get even more clever for the next shoot by seeing what I did with them all
Dansoy G. Rosario
November 28, 2012
Very interesting!
andrew holian
November 29, 2012
Thanks again Alfie. I would have never thought of processing them like this. I am going to have to add some new techniques to my repertoire. Really like it
Alfie Goodrich
November 29, 2012
Jeff tells me you and he are keen to do this 15hr fashion course from January, +andrew holian. We can look at a bunch of post-pro stuff then. I'm very likely going to be running some other post-pro classes soon as well, as part of which people can provide images for me to process in the class. Stepping back from images – and that's easier if they are someone else's – is a key to seeing something different. It was/is one of the big advantages of shooting film… shoot, leave the roll for a bit, develop it, go back to the contact sheets a little later… then start printing. Plus, as an editor, I have the final use very much at the front of my mind. When I saw your images all laid out on the screen it was clear which ones to use and which to drop. Then, seeing the close-up of +Natsuki Doll screaming made it clear that this was the image to drive the feel of the layout. Processing that one first was the route to getting the others sorted. Thanks again for sending these in.
andrew holian
December 1, 2012
+Alfie Goodrich I am interested in putting some more focus on my post processing and final presentation. I think that is one of my weaker points. I look forward to working on it in January