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.

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.