Jan Klier's Photo Journey

How about be yourself?

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Some of you may have read an earlier version of this post. After Kevin’s comment I reconsidered what I wrote here, and the fact that I didn’t separate two points that I tried to make properly. So I’m...

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LA – Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:32:00 +0000

So now we finished day 2 of the seminar. Yesterday morning we covered post processing for fashion magazines, which was very insightful. The key point is that it’s not about the tools, but about...

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LA Fashion Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Yesterday was day one of a fashion photography weekend seminar with Melissa Rodwell and 7 other photographers. We spent the day shooting various lighting setups and outfits. The morning was with LA...

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Photoshop – workflow

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

During the workshop in Knoxville we had a session w/ Josh Berardi, professional retoucher, on his work with Photoshop. Everyone has worked out his own little routine with Photoshop, and since there...

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Location People II

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:43:00 +0000

I just returned from my second workshop of the year, Location People II by Bryan Allen as part of the TME workshop series. This is the first time that BA taught the advanced version of this workshop...

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Photos: Fashion & Sage Brush

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:38:00 +0000

I managed to put in one more location shoot before the weather is turning really cold. Went out with a great team to Eastern Washington to take these images. The concept was to use fashion looks on...

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RT @strobist: Consider Your Palette

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:16:00 +0000

(ok, that is Twitter/FB lingo creeping into my blog – but at times I have a slightly longer comment) I really enjoyed reading this post by David. It reminds of an essay on the Luminous Landscape...

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Workshops Are For Everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

If you follow photographers and photography forums, it won’t take long before you run across people talking about workshops. In an industry where few take formal education, and everyone is...

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Photoshop Technique

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Images seem to fall into three general categories: natural (taken w/ camera and lightly retouched), artistic (taken w/ camera and heavily retouched), and designed (created from scratch in Photoshop)....

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Working For Free & Craigslist

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:55:00 +0000

I’ve been watching the Seattle Craigslist postings with amusement over the last few weeks. It actually turns out it’s an interesting platform where the discussion of working for free is taking place,...

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Your Most Important Skill For Success

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:45:00 +0000

There are many ingredients to success, whatever your endeavor is. Technical skill, creativity, organization, ability to prioritize, and on and on. Without them success is impossible. But more...

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Color Themes for Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:19:00 +0000

It does pay off to read blogs, have a Facebook and Twitter presence. On Facebook I’m a fan of Photoshop and Lightroom and as such get occasional items on each in my newsfeed. On Twitter I follow...

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More creative edits

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:29:00 +0000

OK, since I’m on the theme of creative editing in Photoshop. Every once in a while I catch up on new ideas and techniques via NAPP’s tutorials, an excellent resource for taking it beyond the average...

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Crowd Editing

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:09:00 +0000

I got intrigued by a crowd editing project over on Epic Edits. One raw file, many people’s inspiration and creativity. Here’s my take for this round of editing. I immediately took to the big...

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Strobist Magnets

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:57:00 +0000

Here we go, now you can put an ‘OCF’ magnet on your car, if you happen to score one. While Strobist has been instrumental in my introduction to lighting and has lead me down the path I’ve been on,...

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Correct Color Capture Made Easier

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:45:00 +0000

All of us use some form of white balance correction. How far we take this depends on our geekiness, our tendency to perfection, the type of genre we photograph, and many other elements. Most of us...

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Photo Revenue

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:12:00 +0000

Interesting blog post (via tweet by wizwow): How Much Money Do Photographers Make. What I took away from these stats (on a small and potentially self-selecting data sample) are two things: ...

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Match or No Match

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:43:00 +0000

The blogosphere is a-buzz over the latest legal challenge for Annie Leibovitz. This particular case questions whether she used location scout images from Italy without permission as background images...

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Most Important To Success: Under-Promise & Over-Deliver

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:23:00 +0000

It takes weeks and months to build a reputation with others that can open doors which are critical to your success. But it only takes one thoughtless moment of disappointment to undo all of this...

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Being Happy With One’s Work

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:06:00 +0000

I am working on editing images from shoots from the last few weeks. And I’m faced with an old dilemma – I’m not happy with some of the images. After staring at them for a long time, they just don’t...

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In Camera or In Photoshop?

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:14:00 +0000

I was browsing online, and came across something that had intrigued me for a while – a soft focus lens. Reading through some of my recent book additions (from the PopPhoto list of 26 books every...

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Hairstyles & Beauty

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

This weekend we had a hair industry competition at our studio (Studio 105). We had 5 different hair dressers each with their own dedicated model working on the new darker Fall colors and styles. We...

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All Your Services

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:11:00 +0000

Folks may not realize all the different things you can do for them. So it’s good practice to make this part of your conversation, but staying away from a hard-sell approach. Yesterday I delivered...

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A Picture To Remember

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:00 +0000

Last night our studio group provided event coverage for the ball a military brigade put on for its members and their loved ones prior to deploying to Iraq. Part of our event coverage was to take...

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To Keep Detail or Not?

noreply@blogger.com (Jan Klier) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:38:00 +0000

There always is some controversy on how you edit your files in Photoshop, and how to keep the files. In particular, do you stack your layers such that they are non-destructive, or at least...

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