Contrast And Clarity In Lightroom
Lesson 16 from: Real Estate and Architectural PhotographyMike Kelley
Contrast And Clarity In Lightroom
Lesson 16 from: Real Estate and Architectural PhotographyMike Kelley
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:51 2Step One: Getting The Clients
06:54 3Step Two: Convincing Clients To Hire You
05:30 4Step Three: Successfully Bidding On Jobs
10:48 5Step Four When Shooting
15:58 6On Shoot Day
06:30 7After The Shoot
05:05 8When Things Go Wrong
06:40Portfolio Pictures
07:11 10Image Composition Overview
13:37 11Gear Used To Create Images
12:36 12Edit Lighting In Photoshop
10:15 13Clone Out Problems In Photoshop
06:18 14Fix Moire Effect In Photoshop
03:37 15Finishing Touches In Photoshop
03:05 16Contrast And Clarity In Lightroom
01:25 17Q & A
17:37Lesson Info
Contrast And Clarity In Lightroom
And then go to light room and do some quick global adjustments like contrast and clarity. And I'll show you what I do there real quick. So that's just very simple stuff. Here's our finished file from Photoshop and all I do is to finish it, I add a little bit of warmth. I bumped the shadows just a bit, I thought it was a little too dark. Highlights were fine. A little bit of a clarity adjustment down here. You can go overboard with it very easily but I think a little bit just gives it a little extra special sauce, a little vibrance, a little saturation. And that's it, I don't really sharpen or do noise reduction, I'm always at ISO 100 f/11. I think I've sharpened an image twice in my entire life. Again, makes some people faint but when you're on a tripod with tilt-shift lenses, you don't really need to go overboard with it. And that's pretty much the finished file and I can show you again where it came from. I can just select these two and go back and forth. And that was, you know, prob...
ably two or so hours on location and then I probably spent a good 3 to 5 on that in post. So, there you have it. And that's all my, all my techniques kinda wrapped into one. You can't get it all but hopefully you understand the whole painting with light aspect of it and what it can do for your pictures.
Class Materials
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Mike Kelley is fabulous, so many aspects of his work would make for great classes! I hope Creative Live brings Mike back for many more classes. He's a great communicator with lots of info presented in his class with understandable instructions. . . not that you'll leave the class being able to recreate his amazing images! Although he is very generous in the knowledge he shares on his great techniques. Only issue was not being able to hear/view most of the class as the "live feed" kept cutting out, which was so frustrating. So, I'm purchasing the video. Hope to see Mike in more courses! Excellent!
Victor Zubakin
Firstly this course should be renamed to just Architectural Photography. There's very little information here about shooting real estate photography. Mike Kelley is more of a fine art architecture photographer and the techniques he shows are not really relevant for real estate photography. Kelley's well-known for his blue hour shots and with these he often sets his camera up for a few hours and documents the changing light to later blend into one image. His work is very Photoshop intensive and each photo could require a few hours post-processing in PS. Real estate photography generally requires a complete house to be shot in less than an hour and delivered to the realtor in 24-48hrs. The course is more of interest to those wanting to shoot high-end architecture or interior design projects. Kelley gives some great tips on the business side - how to do marketing, attracting new clientele, how to maintain a healthy relationship with your clients, what to do when things go wrong. Kelley also discusses what gear he uses including the very useful tilt-shift lenses, geared head on his tripod for fine control, shooting tethered, and also some of the lighting he uses. The course features a photoshoot that Kelley did of a historic theatre, and he discusses the techniques he used to capture the images as well as how he processed them in Photoshop. The course was enjoyable & informative, and Mike Kelley is an engaging & fun presenter, with a laid-back style.
a Creativelive Student
Enjoyed this class. Took it to learn more about architectural photography because I know little to nothing about that area of photography. I feel Mike gave a solid introduction in the how-to's of getting into this business, offered some good outside sources, gave good supporting personal stories. Would have liked to lean more about balancing light color and to be referred to some outside sources on learning more about that. Overall, I feel this was a solid intro to architectural photography.