A Note on Photoshop
From a previous version of this blog
When I started working on this, a few years ago I wanted to use different film stock and different processes for different areas of a piece. If a building was old or neglected, I would shoot it on really cheap, old or preferably well out of date film and have it processed in the cheapest, worst looking one hour photo stand I could find. If a building looked new or trendy I would shoot it on good film processed properly. I would also use different films with different characteristics, cross processing, filters etc... all to bestow many different visual feels to a piece.
Now of course I shoot digitally. I had aesthetic reservations about this at first but nowadays I print all the photos less then half of the original 6x4 size and I find it hard to tell the difference when they are so small.
Which brings me to photoshop...
I get questions all the time about how much photoshop I use on my pieces?
Well... very little actually. They are all run through photoshop and sized so that I can put together a quick model in the computer... just to see if the piece works or not. I do use photoshop to simulate the look of various films and processes as I explained above and if there is a random leg or hand that has found its way into a picture then i clone it out... but Im usually very careful about that when Im shooting. In a few rare cases, when there is a large object that is moving quickly;And it is important for the composition I will size down part of it (almost always the front surface) from a larger picture and then put it in. Once I`m happy with the piece then I resize the pictures for printing and arrange them for the printer.
When I started working on this, a few years ago I wanted to use different film stock and different processes for different areas of a piece. If a building was old or neglected, I would shoot it on really cheap, old or preferably well out of date film and have it processed in the cheapest, worst looking one hour photo stand I could find. If a building looked new or trendy I would shoot it on good film processed properly. I would also use different films with different characteristics, cross processing, filters etc... all to bestow many different visual feels to a piece.
Now of course I shoot digitally. I had aesthetic reservations about this at first but nowadays I print all the photos less then half of the original 6x4 size and I find it hard to tell the difference when they are so small.
Which brings me to photoshop...
I get questions all the time about how much photoshop I use on my pieces?
Well... very little actually. They are all run through photoshop and sized so that I can put together a quick model in the computer... just to see if the piece works or not. I do use photoshop to simulate the look of various films and processes as I explained above and if there is a random leg or hand that has found its way into a picture then i clone it out... but Im usually very careful about that when Im shooting. In a few rare cases, when there is a large object that is moving quickly;And it is important for the composition I will size down part of it (almost always the front surface) from a larger picture and then put it in. Once I`m happy with the piece then I resize the pictures for printing and arrange them for the printer.
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