Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time
One may think that NFTs are not all the rage anymore after their massive drop reported earlier this month. But it looks like one may be wrong, at least when it comes to some artists.
After selling his first NFT collection, artist Damien Hirst destroyed the original, physical copies of his artwork. He streamed the event live on Instagram as he burned a thousand of artworks in a controlled environment. And as expected, his performance sparked a lot of reactions.
Dodging and Burning images is something that I see every day in photography and it seems to have two purposes: Artistic character and removing luminosity based distractions.
Today I’m going to be talking about the latter, removing luminosity based distractions. I’m going to assume you already know how to do dodge and burn (and if not you should check this tutorial), so we’ll skip the baby steps and jump straight ahead to the point of the article!
Many of the tools inside of Photoshop use various color models and techniques to alter color. If you are not familiar with them you might be creating a lot of trouble for yourself.
A lot of retouching tutorials online will teach you to use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with -100 saturation to remove the color information from an image (this should eliminate color distractions when Dodging and burning). If you are following this advice, then you are working with Lightness in the HSL color model, which is very different from how our eyes perceive color…
Here is a quick example why it is a bad idea:
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 uses of D&B is the answer to the following question: “How can I get blemishes off my model?”.
If you break this down to the basic components this is a very easy question to answer.
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