- All right guys really quick,
a little video about some of my favorite photos that I took
and this was in Kokomo Beach in Curacao in the Caribbean.
I've always heard this song,
♪ There's a place called Kokomo ♪
♪ That's where you want to go ♪
Well, here it is.
They have this sort of playground for kids here
and the sun was pretty high.
I took so many photos.
This is the one that I like the most,
so I tried it with different characters
and so the sun was pretty high on this one.
Then the sun got lower on this one
with these two beautiful ladies
and then there was this other lady that was there.
The sun was really at the horizon.
And then no one was there, so I tried different things.
So let's see here ...
I'm going to use my signature presets,
which you can get for free if you click--
I mean, some of them for free
if you click the link on Messenger right below Zero.
You have to be logged into Facebook
and you can get them right away.
I'm going to try on this one, I'm gonna go crazy,
I'm going to go Sunset Linear Dark.
Something like this.
One click, and boom.
Look at that, it's crazy.
It's a little over the top,
so I'm going to lower down the saturation.
Don't need to be so much saturated.
I think on this one--
See, I don't like when there's too much blue in the sky.
Remember?
I'm going to take this little spot out.
A preset is only a starting point.
I think that I'm going to use a little grading here.
I have a little grading in my centerpiece.
I'm going to add a little more blue.
There was always some blue there,
but I want to get more blue.
Let's see...
That's too much blue.
You've got to be very subtle
because if you add too much color that was not there
you can really see it afterwards.
I just wanted to add a little bit more
because there's a bit of a lag,
yeah, that's too much of a difference, see.
Gonna back it down, I just wanted to add a bit more blue.
Okay, that's kind of cool.
On this one, I'm just gonna make this, that's alright.
I'm gonna take my radial circle,
if you use my preset, you will see you have to click
there is circles, you have to put this one over the sun.
And then you have to go here to range mask,
you don't have to do that, it's an optional step,
but if you have light from sea, see the radius,
and you have this new beautiful luminance slider,
you can use that, and you move this to the right,
then this way, whatever it's doing on the sun,
you see, check out the difference.
See how the color of the sun is spilling over on the boy,
and everything.
And if I do that, it's more around the sun,
because it creates a mask, so if you press the option key,
you can even see what the mask looks like,
which is really cool, so,
black conceals, white reveals,
see the boy's black, so he's not gonna get influenced
by that radial circle.
If you want to get the signature preset,
just download it here for free,
and you can have a new way to deliver
the false view from messenger, it's much faster.
You just click, and you get the files.
Okay, and maybe this one I'm gonna crop,
but before I do that, I'm gonna select all,
and I'm gonna synchronize what I did on this one,
on the other ones, cause I think it will do
most of the heavy lifting.
So let's click on this one,
this one, the sun was coming down,
a little bit, again, the preset is just the starting point,
like I find this one really lacks of contrast.
And maybe add a bit more contrast on this one,
maybe add a bit of vibrance, I didn't add any vibrance
on the other one cause it was so bright.
And then let's say this one,
I love to take photos when the sun
is right at the horizon, and the two pretty girls left,
and I got an old lady that came, but, you know, that's life.
But she had an interesting hat.
So that's kinda cool.
And then the last one is this one.
So I always work like this with preset,
it goes really fast, you know.
So which one do I like the most?
I'm gonna press "N",
"N" is going to put me into survey mode,
Okay, Shift + Tab, to go really full screen.
And I can see all the photos,
which one I think will do best on 500PX,
I think the one that's gonna do best is this one.
Is the one of the boy, because I want,
the expression of the boy's cool,
but I don't like so much the water down here, on this one,
it's a bit blurry cause it's lagging.
So I think I'm gonna crop this one.
So let me go back on this, Shift + Tab, to go back,
and I'm just gonna use this one,
I'm just gonna crop it,
I don't want to distract it with something else.
So I'm just gonna come here, and cut this,
and then I'm gonna post this on 500PX,
and I'm gonna go get, a 95.7 reward,
be on the home page of 500PX, you know, I hope, maybe not.
You know, usually I don't like photos
when the sun is too high,
but in this one, because of the boy was so awesome,
I think it works really the best.
You know, I think I like more the light here,
you know, when there was this lady there,
but, I don't know, the fact that the boy's there,
you see, for me, what makes a really cool photo,
is having like a full ground,
a back ground, and a middle ground,
and I think, you know, he is just so awesome,
you know, the way he does with his arms,
it's just more cute, and voila,
so that's just, you know, sharing some of the little tricks,
download my signature presets,
right down below, I hope you like this, guys,
see you in another video.