a mini tutorial - before&after of a british short hair

i really enjoyed taking photos of this fellow. i love british short hair anyway. for sometime i've been trying to capture a cool pose of this feline and i think i got one.

post-production of this photo was really fun and not really complicated. as you can see on screenshots, steps are really simple. hopefully it may be an inspiration to you.

raw shot itself is not really fancy, plus it's kinda under-exposed.

final result is this.

god knows what she was up to. but that short moment of thinking, gave me a chance of taking this shot.

equipment&settings, nikon d700 + nikon 105 f/2.8 Macro + nikon sb700.
f/3, 1/100 sec, manual exposing, flash bounced through ceiling. whitebalance auto, iso 200.


- after some cropping, main step was masking eyes and nose.

-after selecting right areas, used invert selection so we can modify the rest. reduced the saturation of rest for around -64, and reduced the saturation of whole photo for around -15.

after this step all you need to to is paint the chair leg off with the brush of color i used, which was grey-ish. and some vignette-ing to the right side.

thats pretty much all actually. thanks to nikon 105 macro prime lens, raw shot itself was sharp enough.

well the point is; as i always say, you can boost your shots with some post production eventhough they might look dull at first.

have fun.

incense-smoke photography tutorial

tutorial.. well, at least thats what it looks like to me..

once upon a time, i came up with the photo below. i wasn't really into smoke, incense type of photography
but as i find myself, secretly searching for these kind of shots and also trying to learn how to take them..
i thought to myself, well might as well give it a try.

so im gonna share the story behind this photo,
hopefully you'll be taking similar or better shots.






stuff you'll be needing;

- an external flash ( i should add, its a must)
- a black background (so smoke can pop in the shot) 
preferably something can absorb the light
- a reflector like a piece of white paper to the otherside so it can reflect the light from flash (this is actually up to you. not mandatory)
- incense and its thingy
- and a piece of paper to block the light reaching to the background, should look like this:



there will be some annoying minor problems but im sure you'll sort them as you go.

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my setup was somewhat like this



and theres the external flash on the left with a blocker as i mentioned.



it should look like this once you're done with the setup

well this was my final shot.

take like hundreds of shots and pick the one you like. 

since you won't be able to control its form, you will need some luck aswell to capture the shape you want.

use negative effect on photoshop if you like to get the white background i used.

mine got some coloring and retouch too, nothing else really.

thats pretty much all.

have fun!

lomography - analogue photography

last few days been really boring as i have dislocated my arm after a minor cycling accident.
also can't really use this freaking keyboard but gotta think positive right?

well it was like a year ago.. i've visited Lomography Turkey Istanbul Store.
I myself am not really into analogue photography,but lomography is certainly something else!

all these cameras look fun even smell fun!

well they ain't cheap but they sure show some uniqueness.

after this amazing iphone device,
its also possible to share your
negatives via social apps like
instagram, facebook, twitter.

Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner























"It began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when a group of students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat – a small, enigmatic Russian camera. Mindlessly taking shots from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded with the mindblowing photos that it produced – the colours were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot – it was nothing like they had seen before! Upon returning home, friends wanted their own Lomo LC-A, igniting a new style of artistic experimental photography that we now know as Lomography!"



and some shots i took during my visit. enjoy!

another "before-after" starring some dinnerware

well.. after these kind of editing, i really wish i was a living pixel in a photoshopped house of mine..crop this, clone that..  would be healthier economy-wise as every month i end up "having too much month at the end of my money".
meh.. housewares always been lowest in my priority list.

anyways, like most ecommerce websites, need to make items pop, so they can sell better.

- prepared some dinnerware for shooting. obviously these are simple and cheap but they are ok.

as well as shooting these dinner sets, i had to assemble them by myself. took few shots and searched for some stock kitchen photos.

- after some isolation, embedded them into some suitable kitchen photos.

not really handsome, splendorous tables but hope you like the work, which was obviously the point of this post.

laters.

more photoshop, less trouble

hiya!

we have been organizing a give away and the prize is a car! (e-commerce)
naturally it should look like a gift. but instead of setting up a gift ribbon for the car which would be really hard, we came up with an idea;

-prepare a gift ribbon on a toy car
-take a picture of it
-isolate the ribbon
-cover the real car image with isolated ribbon
-enjoy the result!

so the process was interesting and hope you guys like it too.
note: green ribbon was for a try-out. used red one, once we figured its doable, we started using the red one. 
(compressed pics, anything is possible quality-wise :))

peace.