Light painting is essentially taking several photos of the same object with lights capturing each specific part of the object. Then stacking the images in Photoshop and blending the desired parts of each image together to create the final product. Its the same as HDR photos, only instead of focusing on colors all over the photos, your focusing on lighting in specific areas of each photo.

These are my top 5 favorite photos since January.

The link above should lead you to a PowerPoint I did on this topic.

Black and white photos are fun and easy to do. In photoshop, you just make a bunch of adjustment layers relative to brightness/contrast, black and white, and curves. If necessary, add a vignette to the edges of your photo, and your done.

Smoothing out the skin and bringing out the color of the pupils in the eyes is a very minor edit that can make all the difference. Even if its not noticeable at first glance.

Creating a cinematic affect was a little bit challenging for me at first. Its so hard to get everything looking exactly the way you want it to. It was, however, extremely fun.

i admit this photo is a little too dark and vibrant for my tastes. But I also think it looks really cool.

Antlers And Shared Apex

when you have objects aligning with your focal subject, or it is protruding out of the subject in a weird way, that’s bad. shift the focal subject so it is on its own.

Fused Edge Frame

basically the goal is to keep your focal points completely in the picture, or at least make sure the object fused is placed partially out of the photo with purpose.