Category Archives: Tech Info

Basic Retouching & Skin Softening Tutorial Part-3

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Thorsten

In 2001 I spent 2 years as a part-time digital retoucher for a very large commercial lab. During that time, I learned a great deal from the expert retouchers, those with 10+ years of experience. Later I learned color management … Continue reading →

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Working with Film Curves Part-2

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Thorsten

The film curve video clip is actually the final step of my 3-step digital workflow. I understand that everyone has a different way of retouching, so the retouching clip will be in Part 3. Essentially, I expose, light and process … Continue reading →

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Digital Camera & RAW Processing Setup-Part 1

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Thorsten

Six years ago I stumbled on this camera setup technique on the Moose Peterson website. He discovered that by changing the sharpness, saturation, and tone (contrast), to the lowest values, the camera histogram displayed additional room at the shadow and … Continue reading →

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Lens Resolution & the Sensor

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Thorsten

The second trick is from the days of school. We had these two CIA tech guys give us a lecture on film and lens resolution. They took a $20 plastic Kodak 110 Instamatic film camera and a custom cut 110 … Continue reading →

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Camera RAW & the Histogram

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Thorsten

We use our camera histogram to verify that the exposure is correct when shooting raw files. We shoot RAW to get the greatest dynamic range and image quality from each file. Houston, we have a problem, camera histograms are slightly … Continue reading →

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Big Landscape Images Part2

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Thorsten

I am glad that you continued reading this article because the rewards of these images are great. Multi-row stitches open additional possibilities for both the commercial photographer and also the fine art landscape photographer. The multi-row image stitch has a … Continue reading →

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