Coloring the Sky and Removing Modern Building
Lesson 45 from: Cinematic Lighting for PortraitureChris Knight
Coloring the Sky and Removing Modern Building
Lesson 45 from: Cinematic Lighting for PortraitureChris Knight
Lesson Info
45. Coloring the Sky and Removing Modern Building
Lessons
Class Introduction
04:29 2What is Cinematic Lighting?
06:42 3Motivated & Practical Lighting
07:41 45 Cinematic Lighting Tips
04:53 5Low-Key & Upstage Lighting
06:26 6Control Your Fill Lighting
05:18 7Show Depth In Your Image
13:24 8Pre-Production for Cinematic Lighting
22:42Grip Tools: Clamps
08:41 10Grip Tools: Apple Boxes, C-Stands & Grip Heads
10:53 11Grip Tools: Pins & Portable Gear
04:50 12Grip Tools: Scrims, Silks, Flags & Tape
13:52 13Grip Tools: Wind and Haze Machines
04:07 14Grip Tools: Unusual Tools
04:47 15Grip Tools: Filters
11:05 16Grip Tools: Q&A
15:04 17Theater Shoot: Concept
08:03 18Theater Shoot: Pre-Production Considerations
08:48 19Theater Shoot: Lighting Gear
04:27 20Theater Shoot: Motivated Lighting Considerations
26:47 21Theater Shoot: Lighting Walkthrough
20:45 22Theater Shoot: Capturing The 1st Shot
27:37 23Theater Shoot: Hero Shot
21:47 24Theater Shoot: Capturing In The Seats
21:48 25Airstrip Shoot: Concept
05:49 26Airstrip Shoot: Pre-Production Considerations
19:31 27The Haircut: Location Specifics and Motivated Lighting
13:17 28Working With Scrims On Location
06:34 29The Haircut: Getting the Shot
24:28 30The Haircut: Shooting Plates
08:21 31Staggered Planes: Location Specifics and Motivated Lighting
08:10 32Staggered Planes: Getting The Shot
08:23 33Capturing Plates With Talent In Background
16:26 34Airstrip: Environmental Portraits
07:01 35Airstrip: Location Shooting Q&A
22:05 36Using Plates to Create a Pano in Lightroom®
16:08 37Transform Tool
04:50 38Post-Processing 1st Theater Shot
09:48 39Retouching Details in Photoshop®
13:09 40Color Grading in Alien Skin Exposure X3
06:27 41Post-Processing Theater Hero Shot in Photoshop®
08:11 42Creating a Spotlight in Photoshop®
05:31 43Adjusting Color for Cinematic Lighting
12:28 44Post-Processing: The Haircut
12:08 45Coloring the Sky and Removing Modern Building
05:10 46Creating a Pano Using Plates in Photoshop®
17:12 47Developing Cinematic Portraits in Lightroom®
07:29 48Retouching Cinematic Portraits in Photoshop®
08:57 49Color Grading Cinematic Portraits in Alien Skin
13:20Lesson Info
Coloring the Sky and Removing Modern Building
This gets my image most of the way there. Unfortunately, there are a couple of small issues. One, I said that I messed up the sky a little bit. I lost a little bit of color right here. I'm just gonna grab a new blank layer. Sample this color here. Option click, right. That paints this over things. I'm just painting this blue color. Right? Change the blend mode to Color. Color's filled in. That one was easy. What about this? This doesn't fit the period. Not great. Unfortunately it's very, too modern of a building. What am I gonna do? I'm gonna steal from this over here. I'm just gonna flip it. Okay? So, I'm gonna select more than I need and I'm gonna copy it. So, I need to Copy Merge. So I can go back through and I can copy the original layer, but I find that when I'm just on any rando layer and I need to copy what's visible, Command Shift C, Control Shift C on PC. This is called Copy Merged. It copies whatever is visible in your selection. So that when I hit Paste even though I had jus...
t a, that other layer selected, it gave me this. So I like Copy Merged a lot. Command Shift C. I'm gonna hit Free Transform. So Command T or Control T on PC. And I'm gonna Flip Horizontal. Bring this right over to the edge and line it up. I'll lower the opacity so you can see it a little bit more clearly. Maybe something like that. Okay. I just want to clean up this stuff a little bit. So nothing's really poking out at me. Let's do a little bit of this. I think that looks okay. Easy enough. I just need it for the ground. That's all I need it for. And I'm going to hold down the Alt or Option key and click on the mask button. That immediately creates a Hide AlL mask. Then all I have to do is zoom in. And this, let's bring that opacity back. I'm gonna give myself a relatively similar edge. Now you can also see that the tones don't quite line up. I'm gonna fix that in a second. This comes across here. I'm just gonna even this up a little bit. That looks good. Okay. So, this replaces, let's get rid of some, a little bit more of that. I don't like that, there we go that's better. Okay. So, this gives me the new edge. But unfortunately, this doesn't match. Our trusty friend the Clipping mask allows us to adjust, undo. The Clipping mask allows us to adjust only that layer that's immediately below it. So what I'm gonna do over here, gonna zoom in a little bit, make it a little bit easier to see. Is we make it a little bit brighter. Something that looks like that. Right? So that got me tonally pretty close. I mean there's just a little bit too much color in it so I'm gonna do one for Color and just bring that saturation down. And now, very easy. Two little quick adjustments blended together. This whole process, me going at full speed, what you just saw. I mean other than waiting for it to load up and copy and paste, this is about five minutes worth of work. To erase something on top of the other thing and swap that background out. And it allows you to go from, you know, here to here or there for the most part, right, to here in a relatively short amount of time. I'm waiting on it to merge it and line it up more than anything else. And I think it totally is passable. Okay? And that would be how I would put that image together.
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Ratings and Reviews
Bruce Walker
This course is simply terrific, and I highly recommend it. Firstly it arrived at the perfect time for me as I am soon to do a studio shoot very much in keeping with a cinematic or theatrical aesthetic. Secondly it's taught by Chris Knight who I swear is like a long-lost twin brother. :-) There are so many parallels in the way he thinks and works to my own style. So I avidly watched this as soon as it was available for anytime streaming. This is the first time I have made extensive use of the CL iPhone app, btw, and I love how it pretty much enabled me to seamlessly switch back and forth from desktop viewing to my iPad that I carry around the house during the day. I was able to make coffee and still carry on taking in the course, uninterrupted. The content is fantastic, delivered succinctly yet entertainingly. Some material and ideas are already in my repertoire and were reinforced and validated by Chris' demonstrations. But he also introduced a lot of ideas and methods new to me and very welcome. I was particularly glad to see how practical it is to stitch a series of tripod shots into a wide pano. I have been afraid to try that but I will now be using that in my next shoot, for sure. As alway, his post production practices revealed all kinds of tips about Lightroom and Photoshop I didn't know. Negatives. The volume level mastering is iffy. It started out at a decent level then midway through one of the early lessons dropped so much I had to turn up my sound system to compensate. And as I write this one lesson (34) is missing and in its place was a duplicate of the next lesson (35). I expect CL will have that fixed shortly though (I sent support a note).
Jeph DeLorme
One of the best classes I have viewed at Creative Live. Definitely worth the investment of time and money. The pace of the class allows you to learn extra tips and tricks throughout the process. Great instructor, highly recommend this class to anyone looking to step up their creative game.
a Creativelive Student
excellent class in all regards. outstanding instructor with experience in complicated cinematic shoots but who also is willing to thoroughly cover the basic nuts and bolts. i wish all creative live classes were of this quality.
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