EX141 Teach a processing technique
One of the lovely things that happens in Len’s Club is that we all learn from each other. Sharing skills and knowledge is a cornerstone of the learning community we have developed. Teaching others requires us to rethink what we do and break it down into steps for others to follow.
There are huge benifits to slowing down and doing this. For it makes the steps clearer to ourselves. Verbalising what we are doing and how reinforces what we are doing and deepens our understanding.
For this weeks exercise I ask you to share a technique you love to use. To break it down into smaller steps, with screen shots, and showing the starting point. Writing down the steps helps us understand them better. And of course everyone else benefits as well.
So find a photograph you have created that you love and admire, that you worked on with processing to change it from the original to something else. Now go back and do it again slowly, taking screen shots and writing your own workflow out for others to follow. Your goal is to make it clear so that others can follow.
Shift Command 5 gives you a full screen shot in a mac, and shift command 4 allows you to draw the area you wish to screen shot. On a PC use the print screen (PrtScn) key on your keyboard. Here is some other ways on a pc outlined here.
Example
Raw photograph taken into lightroom
Played with the crop in lightroom
Opened the image in NIK Analog and chose wet plate camera, and then Wet Plate preset 7
I changed the basic settings to bring out more contrast. I changed the amount of vignette, and the opacity of the scratches and wet plate layers
Back in lightroom I added my sepia toning. Decided I didn’t like the white scratch on the figure and then did the whole thing again.
Upload your steps and screen shots, beginning and final image into our forum, and we will discuss the process you used next week.
