Hello I'm Gavin Hoey and your watching
Adorama TV. Brought to you bt Adorama the camera store that has
everything for us photographers. And your watching another fifteen-minute
photo challenge. Adorama TV presents
take and make great photography with Gavin Hoey
where you'll learn how to take stunning photos and then polished them
in post-production. So your joining here in New York. I'm in New York
I'm gonna spend 15 minutes wandering around this little small area
to see what photos we can take. behind me is the flat iron building
and hopefully we'll find some good shots of that and the park across the way here
so
let's get going. okay so for my first shot
well I'm gonna do the clock here it says everything about the place
Fifth avenue building we're gonna have to be the flat iron behind it
okay let's come in here I'm gonna do a reasonably tight close shot I think as
well because
well I think it look's good so there is a bit of a problem with the the lamp shade
coming through the streetlight but there's not alot I can do about that it's just
just there's isn't it will have to live with that but what I will do is try make
sure the clock
is between the two buildings so it
fills that gap in the sky good but I reckon is a really wide show in here as
well so
just come down a little bit lower. get a wide shot
now looking back at the camera I can see it look a bit shadowy
on the clock but not a lot I can do about that
that something will have to try and fix in Photoshop and as we have only got
fifteen minutes
lets go on and take more pictures
okay so I think there is a panno here
just to really establish the scene just to give you a feel of how much there is
here to take in its incredible
so let's grab my camera, now pano's if you wanna see really detailed
information how to shot panoramas
go check out Adorama TV's Learning Center a check out my very
first video no my second video. Video 102
were I do Pano's in more detail but for a very quick overview
I'm just gonna start in aperture priority mode I'm gonna choose
f8 as my aperture and I'm gonna take a meter reading
which is telling me at 200th of a second ISO 200
f8. I'll dial those numbers in to manual
so all of my panno shots have the same settings, turn my camera on it's side so I'm in
portrait format
and away we go. So doesn't matter whether you start left to right
but the first picture, picture of my hand so I know that's the beginning in my pano
and around we go
one, two , three, four ,
five , six. wait for the lorry to go through
Sevan. There we go. okay so there's my little pano
and I'll stitch that together in Photoshop we should have a much more dynamic shot
with that huge 180 degree
field of view
random shots but
it's very New York
well it's a bit of a cliche but
one thing you notice when you're in New York is the sheer number of yellow cabs
well sort of orangy yellow cabs. I've got to get a picture of those
and I think just over here is where I'm gonna do it
don't forget to check out Adorama's latest contest
and your chance to win amazing prizes
so we've got cars taxis whizzing past me cabs
whizzing past me all the time lets get a shot now first of all I need to come
of manual and back into aperture priority mode so
I'm gonna choose a setting that's gonna give me a shutter speed
thats gonna give that motion in fact I'm a work in shutter priority mode so
on my Canon 60d that the TV setting and I'm gonna dial down my shutter speed to
well I dunno
I'm guessing about a 30th of a second should give me some motion blur cuz I
want these cabs to be
slightly blurred to give that terror that you're about to get run over
cos that's what I've got every time I stepped into the road since I've been
here
okay so lets just take a quick shot. There we go so
ok brilliant so we've got a couple of great shots there let's go find somewhere else to take
some more pictures before we run out of time
so
we just come across to the park right across from the Flat iron Building and
there's all sorts of great little shots
in here some people, some objects but these things
these have really caught my eye and their a little bit of actually i dunno what way are
everybody's been looking under neath so I'm gonna just
have a sneaky look under there see if it's a good photo
you can see what I can see if you could see if you could see this you'd you'd be
grabbing your camera
you be taking exactly the same shot that I'm gonna take which is
a brilliant self portrait
well it's a self portrait that's pretty
incredible thats just great fun so couple things I'm gonna look for here
i'm looking at a shot that seems to have a massive depth the field so I'm gonna
dial up my
aperture to f8 it's one of those depth of field things where if you're not quite
sure f8
is a great place to be because just it just generally doesn't matter
but F8 is giving me a shutter speed that's a little bit on the slow side
so I'm gonna increase my ISO to compensate
all the way up to 800 ISO
800 ISO yeah i mean that that looks , that's incredible
I really love that, that's great
right okay so well time's running out fifteen minutes a pretty much done
and
I'm no doubt gonna stay here for ages more taking a few pictures but for this
challenge
I want one more shot looking up fifth avenue because as I look out there
I can see a rather tall building, it's the Empire State Building and I've gotta get
a picture that is one of those pictures you gotta do
I've got to do this without getting run over by cabs
wish me luck, here we go
look there's a gap in the traffic
I'll be honest is not my best picture but I'm a tourist
and I'm enjoying myself here's and it's one of the must have shots
and that's one of my little memories from New York
but when you look a little bit closer sometimes you see things that
the touristy shot will miss, So I'm just gonna
go in a little bit closer I'm gonna go with a nice
wide aperture so F4
and I'm gonna get this shot
bet you didn't see that one
so there you go fifteen minutes have come and gone
I'm still in one piece and I have been run over
which is fabulous but what we gonna do now is to get these pictures
back onto my computer and we'll see what we can do with them inside of
Photoshop
I'm gonna do that right now
well it was absolutely freezing in New York so I'm back in my office and
warming up quite nicely
and I had chance to look at the pictures the one I want to edit
is the first shot it's a great raw file with bags of potential
it's the picture of the clock with Fifth Avenue in there
the Flatiron Building behind and I'm gonna stop by deliberately
under exposing the image now if I'd have done this to the picture in camera if
either deliberately or accidentally under exposed the image
I'd have looked at it and thought I've messed that one up and
technically I have but were gonna use raw to really maximize
the potential in the picture we're gonna push this as far as I'm comfortable
to take the raw file which is possibly a little bit too far for some people but
that's okay
it's my picture so what I'm gonna do next is to say okay more highlighted
detail please by reducing the highlights but then open up the shadows
by increasing the shadow slider so I get something out of the shadows to.
little bit under exposed there's a bit of a hint of a gap there on the the histogram
so
let's just bring up the whites just to fill in that end, now
obviously this picture needs clarity say obviously I do use clarity lot but
these pictures got some great texture and that's what clarity really picks up on
now color this picture could work as a black and white
I think, or it could work a color image and in fact if I increase my saturation
the colors really hold up well so another nice little tip is if you're
saturation can go really high and you don't fall down
then you can sort out your colors and just mute them back a little bit
by pulling back the vibrance like so now if you choose to
go down the color route or and the black and white route and want to find out
more about how to be black and white work
then check out the Adorama Learning Center has a brilliant tips and
techniques
on shooting in black and white and editing your pictures in black and white
okay now I like that I like the hint of color
but also the hint of monochrome but the monochrome gives me the ability to do a
few things
for example I can jump into split toning and I can split tone my
image and I'm gonna do it by adding 50 to the highlights
230 to the shadows, let's start with the highlight color
I chosen my color as warm tone by adding fifty
but the amount of warm tone is governed by the saturation slider
and you can see how it picks up on that black and white sky that we created
by reducing vibrance and put a nice warmth into the
the highlights in the sky same with the shadows
when I increase the saturation on the shadows were putting some blue
into the shadowy areas in the picture and thats split toning
different tone in the highlights and the shadows okay while we're here we're
gonna come into the effects as well
and put a little bit of post crop vignetting just to darken the edges
and that will make that center feel darker notice I said feel
doesn't actually change the center just feels like it does
well one of the great things about the raw editor in Lightroom and Photoshop
is you don't have to make
just global changes that changes to
all of the picture equally you can make local changes as well
so you can be much more selective about what you do
to small parts of the picture now here in Photoshop
it's the adjustment brush its on the Options bar on the top
so let's go grab that and I'm gonna increase my exposure
by about a stop, we'll make my brush a little bit bigger
and we'll just paint an extra stopof light over the clock face
because it was feeling a little bit dark and a little bit gloomy
lets make the brush a little bit smaller and I'll just tidy up. Put more light
down here too now you don't have to stop there you can have as many these brushes
you like
so I'm gonna get another new brush and this time what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to increase the clarity and I'm also gonna increase the contrast
and we're just gonna paint over the face of the clock and you will see how much
cuts through that haze and gives me a much clearer picture of
the clock face finally I'm also gonna add some temperature to the area
just to warm it up a little bit so it's not a cold looking
clock face it has some warmth in there and there you go
that's it that's my final picture completed
now if you enjoyed this video don't forget to click on the subscribe button
to keep getting more videos from myself
and the other amazing presenters here on Adorama TV
I'm Gavin Hoey thanks for watching
Do you want great-looking prints at low-cost? be sure to visit our
easy to use online printing service Adorama
pics has professionals to treat your images with the utmost care that you can
count on
for a quick turnaround on photos cards for albums
use adoramapix.com