Posts by Author: Stefan Kohler
Stefan Kohler is a full-time retoucher. He’s from Germany and likes bacon. In the last years, he built up a broad community around his retouching classes at the Infinite tool’s website.
Dodge & Burn – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Nov 2, 2015
Stefan Kohler
If you split an image into its most basic components, you can look at each pixel as the sum of the following info: Brightness Color…
High Key, Low Key, Or Just Badly Exposed?
Oct 29, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Here is Wikipedia’s definition for Low-Key Lighting: Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating…
Gear Does Matter, But Not How You Thought It Does
Sep 8, 2015
Stefan Kohler
The most popular (and worn out) “advice” given to aspiring photographers is probably “It doesn’t matter which camera you use”. But is that really true?…
The Peter-Coulson Look – A Lighting Exercise
Jul 17, 2015
Stefan Kohler
As someone who describes himself a “Facebook Enthusiast”, I have a lot of photographers in my timeline. Probably 100 are constantly popping up, some of…
If You Want To Make Things Hard, Combine 4 Mirrors, Ground Fog And A Light Blaster To Create An Image
Apr 20, 2015
Stefan Kohler
There are these moments I have, lying in bed, closing my eyes and there it is: that idea that won’t let me sleep. Most of…
set.a.light 3D Is a Studio simulation for photographers
Jan 22, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Sometimes I wonder why I can’t sleep that good. It happens often is a big shoot is on my plan for the next day, I…
Well Of Creation: Inspiration Of 10 Images Explained
Jan 16, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Every once in a while people ask me: “Where do you get these ideas from?”. Usually I say “They just pop up”, but I’ve having…
An Exercise In Dodge & Burn: Turning A Golf Ball Into A Pingpong Ball
Jan 14, 2015
Stefan Kohler
Dodge & Burn (fondly called D&B) are one of the simplest and most powerful techniques that you can use in retouching. One of the interesting…
Photostealers, Please Take My Images Or Why It Sucks To Fight Copyright Infringements From Overseas
Dec 16, 2014
Stefan Kohler
This is a sad story about image thievery (again), and why I think it is so common on the internet. It is coming from a…
The Ride of your life – Centrifuge Brain Project
Dec 15, 2014
Stefan Kohler
When I first saw “The Centrifuge Brain Project,” I was kind of confused. Is this real? The next thing was excitement—and I had to watch it…