Afternoon Rant

From behance

After a request from some of my students on how to get their photos with that nice old aged effect so used by current photographers i have decided to put a few photos up that I have done like this to give you few pointers.

Photography pointers: Forget all the rules you are supposed to use when taking photos. This type of photography is not about structure but about spontaneity. Use a flash and it doesn't matter if you have shadows on your images, it is part of the appeal. If you do have access to one use a ring-flash if you can. Don't worry about slight movement of the camera or the person. The blur ads to the effect... (you wont get published in Vogue this way).

Photoshop Pointers: Once you have your images that has been perfectly exposed you need to lighten all your images just a tad to make sure the software that we are going to use wont make them too dark. Now go to the website Action Central and download some of the actions there. the ones I used for these photos were the Muted Fashion action and the Editorial action.

Download the action. Open photoshop and your image. Double click on the action that you have downloaded. it will now be in your photoshop Actions panel.

Go to Window in the Photoshop Command bar and choose Actions (alt f9). You will now see that these actions have been added to the standard actions that photoshop has. All you need to do now is run the action by pressing the play button on the bottom line of the Action-window. The computer will now do the work for you.

Easy-peasy. Now you just need to take some more arbitrary photos and send them off to some hip indy magazines and publishing is in your future!

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