Studio Lighting with colour ~ pictures

January 12th, 2009

Last week I gave a masterclass on shooting colourful studio pictures using grey or white backgrounds. The delegates of the 4 hour session were on our Evolve business development programme. I want to share these pictures with you because the webpage was created with Adobe Lightroom and integrated with my website CSS. Are you making the most of the resources you already have to share pictures with your clients?

Take a look at the proof pictures here.

The rest of Katie Younger’s test shots from Thursday’s shoot are here. These pictures were taken as part of a 1:1 shooting session using off camera flash. The various looks were a result of batched Photoshop actions. These are only proofs and a few are a bit red for my liking.

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1. Eric | January 13th, 2009 at 8:50 am

What kind of post processing do you apply to get such colourful pictures?
2. Stuart | January 13th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

The slideshow option within lightroom is great for firing out quick slideshows with very little fuss. There are also some great plugins for LR that allow clients to view and select the images. Once chosen an email can be fired off providing a list of images they want.

Slideshow pro as an additional plugin is great also allowing you to create different slideshow and very slick. Small cost attached to that one though.
3. David Golding | January 13th, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Check out http://www.lightroomgalleries.com. Here you can download additional web galleries for Lightroom, and in particular they do one that integrates with paypal, so you easily create galleries that allow your customers to order and pay for prints online. Best of all – it’s free.

Note for Damien – there appears to be a problem with the comments form on your blog. A horizontal scroll bar appears in the email and url boxes when the text overflows, causing the contents to be obscured. Just thought I’d mention it.
4. damien | January 13th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

Hi Eric, I used coloured gels on the lights and in combination with the grey background I got deeply saturated colours in camera. When you add colour to a white background you get pastel shades at best.

The files each had their contrast boosted in Lightroom and then the Lovegrove post production looks (xpa, xpb, xpc and xpd) were applied via a batch command in Photoshop. I then chose a selection of the resulting images for the preview process. Images that get get bought and chosen for print get further work in the form of skin retouching, spot and dust removal and a careful reworking of the actions in 16 bit if required.

Kind regards,

Damien.
5. damien | January 14th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

Hi Karl, Sorry about that. They work for me. I think the site may well have been in transition from one server to the other at the time you tried to access the pages.

Please try again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Damien.