In the first part of the coverage on the RoyalBLUSH production, I talked about the shoot and the lighting technique. Now let’s have a look at the post processing and retouching.

We had a very tight schedule to shoot and process with only a few days to get everything printed up for a show at GREENshowroom in Berlin. So I had to find a way to speed up the retouching on the 9 images which the client selected. As you may know a regular retouching process on a fashion image can easily consume a day’s work or more. Clearly we did not have this kind of time here. So I decided to work exclusively in Adobe Lightroom 2 and see what I can achieve using only this single powerful tool. I figured I could still take the shots into Photoshop if things wouldn’t come to a satisfactory result… But let’s start at the beginning!

Continue reading after the break…

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Posted by nicolas_henri on July 6th, 2009 :: Filed under Making Of, Photography, Post Production, Technology
Tags :: Fashion, Nicolas Henri, Post Production, Retouching, RoyalBLUSH

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I recently shot another installment of promo images for the Swiss handbag label RoyalBLUSH. Things were a bit rushed, because the images had to be ready for the GREENshowroom, part of the Mecedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. All in all we had little more than a week to shoot, process and get things printed.

In this post I’ll cover the speedy shoot and in part two I will explain how I used the powerful tools of Adobe Lightroom 2 to process and retouch 9 images in less than a day! We’ll have behind the scenes video and a free Lightroom Preset for download!

Continue reading after the break…

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Posted by nicolas_henri on July 2nd, 2009 :: Filed under Lighting, Making Of, Photography, Uncategorized

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