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Fresh of the presses. I just put up five sweet new Before and After’s in the CJ portfolio. The Interview magazine images are up as well and the late breaking national ad campaign, “Pierre Again.”  Check em’ out

Another fun interview shoot with photographer Stephen Rose for the August 2009 issue of INTERVIEW mag.  I was on the streets slinging hard drives and laptops (aka. digital capture) and back in the retouching suite before you can say pesto gnocchi.  Stephen stopped by the studio to go over some color idea’s and the rest [...]

This Popphoto magazine article recently ran, a rather candid interview that I did a few months back and I thought it would be fun to post it here for those of you who don’t know me personally.  It says a little about how I got evolved in retouching / digital capture and wee bit about [...]

We spent a day on the beach working with the talented Stephen Rose, for this awesome swim story in Interview Magazine. (see above.)  Stephen had us join the team to help carry over and refine his film based style  using digital capture.  We set up a great location tether and download station on location for [...]

 
 
 
 
April 22nd, 2009 - 6:30pm
For all you lurking blog readers out there……  ASMP as invited me to do a Lecture in NYC.  It’s this Wednesday night, it should be a good one so come on out and say hi !
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RAW Talk is an insider look, “under the hood” of RAW processing tools giving photographers both [...]

The often overlooked split tone adjustment tab could be just what you were looking for. Sure split toned black and whites can look nice, especially when used sparingly, but I have to say that i find split tone adjustments in Lightroom/ACR far more useful for creating unique color looks and simulating film stocks.
Although the adjustments [...]

Creating  depth, better separation, and detail can be accomplished a number of ways.  Most retouchers use multiple curves and other dodge and burn techniques.  But by teaming your curves adjustments with channel mixing you can get a lot more from your images. 
Without a solid tonal structure to begin with, your creating a lot of extra work for yourself. [...]

In my lectures and one-on-one retouching sessions I like to say,  ” you’re only as good as what you change and how you change it.“  It’s important to think about what should not be retouched.  Usually botched commercial retouching is just plain sad but in this case… it’s hilarious!  Our friends over at Photoshop Disasters [...]