Photo retouching in Photoshop

Senior portraits post-production and retouching. Before and After.

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:29:30 +0000

Big kids of our friends asked us to shoot their Senior Pictures for Walton High School Yearbook. During the shoot Alex had a chance to test his DIY Vagabond II and I experiment with several post-production and retouching techniques.
For some of the images I used this tutorial: The Double RAW Conversion Tutorial from Calvin Hollywood. I really like the double RAW conversion method and use it often.

Here is the result:

Studio portraits

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Studio portrait photography, Atlanta, GA

Studio portrait photographer, Atlanta, GA

Outdoor studio:-)

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Dramatic portrait photography retouching

Studio lighting for outdoor photography

Studio outdoors portrait lighting set-up

Atlanta photographer location portrait using studio lights

Post-production and retouching in Photoshop

Senior portrait retouching in Photoshop

Portrait post-processing in Photoshop

Thank you for looking. Any feedback and suggestions are very welcome!

Architecture photography post-production and retouching for Vieler International.

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:45:05 +0000

Half year ago we did a product photo-session for Vieler International.

Now Andre Vieler asked us to shoot exterior photos of the whole plant. We used a fork lifter to raise the photographer to a height where was much less perspective distortion. This works much better then any tilt/shift lens, I wish we could have such lifter for all of our architectural projects:-)

Here I’ll show you how I did a post-production, some parts of work flow. Here is the image before and after:

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1. First of all I clean the image using Healing Brush and Clone Stump Tools

2. Then correct perspective distortion using the Adobe Photoshop Free Transform Tool

3. Clone missing parts of grass

4. Making a brand new asphalt:-)

duplicate layer
create new layer and fill it Black
Filter/Noise/ Add Noise (18%, Gaussian, Monochromatic)
Filter/Stylize/Glowing Edges (Edge Width 1, Edge Brightness 4, Smoothness 3)
Blending options – Overlay
Duplicate this layer
Merge last 3 layers
Add Vector Mask holding Alt Key
Pick up a white brush and paint over asphalt, change opacity of this layer as you like:

Architecture exterior photography asphalt retouching in Photoshop

This method works best on a light gray asphalt.

If you have other ideas how to improve architecture photos, please share them here:-)

The Sole Seduction Networking Event! I won the $250.00 Gift Basket from The Avenue.

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:35:02 +0000

Thank you, Maryan (Dash Photography) and Melissa (Mellabelle Designs) for inviting me to a great Sole Seduction Fashionista Networking Event, it was really glorious.

And a big surprise! I won the $250.00 Gift Basket from The Avenue Forsyth!

This a nice blur effect is not Photoshop or any other editing software: direct from a camera RAW, no filters attached Any ideas how we made it?

Images by Maryan Aiken for Dash Photography. Thank you, Maryan!

Fashionista Networking Event

First AKELstudio LIVE! masterclass went well. We did it!

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:19:06 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov

It was not easy for Alex and me, because we are not a public people. But it was fun and gave us a great feeling that we did something useful:-) We are really enjoy every photo-session with water, because you never know exactly what will come up: every drop is unique:-) This is a very creative process with a lot of experiments.

As always, all technical aspects and full length video from the masterclass you can find on Alex Koloskov blog

Now I have some photos to share, including before and after post-production.

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Water splash photography masterclass

Live video masterclass water splash photography

Water splash photography, red apple

No Photoshop

Masterclass, workshop, tutorial water splash photography

Our twins go to school, so I am back to blogging:-)

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:14:41 +0000

We had a very busy month: a lot of assignment work, LIVE masterclass and preparation for our girls first school, Montessori. Eventually we got everyone ready, washed and potty-trained, and Monday was a first day of school for our girls and some sort of beginning of a new life for us:-)

Now I will have more time to describe photo-sessions we do and (my favorite:-) to upload more photos including “before and after” on this blog.

Here, at AKELstudio we have so many plans and ideas:
We are going to change our stock web site www.akelphoto.com to specializing only in water stock photography. We want to re-design our Portfolio and run our LIVE masterclasses to a regular basis.

Also I will fill up my inspirational and motivational collection (www.kapreez.com) with best photographers, designers, retouchers and readings.

Now photos of our first school day:

Editorial photography. Alex Koloskov

Lifestyle photography, Atlanta GA

Family photography

Editorial photography

Family, kids, lifestyle photography

Wooh! Now it is time to go back to work. The work I love. Wish the same for you, my fiends!:-)

Water photography webinar-masterclass (LIVE!) is scheduled for Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:30:50 +0000

AKELstudio glad to announce a date for our first LIVE webinar-masterclass: Saturday, 7th August at 5PM Eastern time.

We’ll be doing our water photography third tutorial, creating photos similar you see below. The lesson will take about an hour, plus some additional time when I can answer your questions.

Water photography master class

The registration is completely free and one click simple, HERE. After registration, click on ‘AKELstudio LIVE’ link on top right menu, you’ll see the video preview; check how it works on your browser if you do not want any surprises when we’ll be LIVE.

For all who registered I’ll send a notification with the next photoshoot date/time.

Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to run it most efficient way: we all open for new ideas.

~Alex Koloskov

RetouchPRO LIVE webinar with Steve Koshlap

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:27:26 +0000

Yesterday I attended RetouchPRO LIVE webinar with Steve Koshlap. Steve is a professional jewelry and beauty retoucher. He demonstrated the diamond and jewelry retouch from start to finish using Photoshop. The information was really useful. Looking forward to see his other webinars.

Exactly in this time Alex was shooting a jewelry:-) And now I can use my new knowledge for this retouching. I’ll show you the result in couple months because now it is a confidential information.

Stay in touch!

Restaurant menu food photography.

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22:40 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov
Food stylist Nan McCulloch

Wing City2City Opening Soon. Wing City2City Take-Out Restaurant Will Provide The Best Chicken Wings In The Gainesville Ga.

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Food photographer, Atlanta GA

Food photographer, Alpharetta, Cumming

Food photographers, Atlanta GA

Food photography studio, Atlanta GA

Restaurant menu photographer, Atlanta GA

Restaurant menu photography

Food and drink photographer in Atlanta

Art product studio photography. Before and After post-production.

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:52:19 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov

Recently we had an enjoyable photoshot of designed and hand made unique products for the artist Doug James.

Doug James is the quintessential product designer whose blended talents as both an artist and engineer have propelled him through many artistic and design challenges to successfully create elegant, appealing and highly marketable objects.

His new redesigned web site with new pictures is coming soon. Please check www.studiodoug.com

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Studio product photographer, Atlanta

Atlanta commercial product photographer

Atlanta photographer, product tutorial

Atlanta photographer, close-up macro product photography

Product photography tutorial, before and after

Art studio photography, Atlanta, GA

Lighting setup, technical details, behind the scene video tutorial for these photos, as usual available on our photographer’s blog: Lighting the lights: Designer’s tabletop lamp product photography tutorial

Water in still life, product and advertisement photography: Episode two

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:10:28 +0000

Location: AKELstudio, Alpharetta, GA
Atlanta commercial photographer Alex Koloskov

Lighting setup, technical details, behind the scene video tutorial for these photos, as always available on our photographer’s blog article:
Water in product and advertisement photography: episode two released!
Today I’ll show you my retouching work. I really enjoyed working with such vivid bright colors. I am a color person, never liked black & white or sepia:-). This is why working with these colorful photos makes me truly happy and positive for entire day.

Hope you’ll feel this energy while looking at our images:-) Have a nice day!

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Sparkling water photography. Tutorial episod 2.

Water bubbles photography. Tutorial episod 2.

Water photography. Tutorial episod 2