Add Grain to Images in Alien Skin
Lesson 32 from: Powerful Portraits using Mirrorless CamerasMiguel Quiles
Add Grain to Images in Alien Skin
Lesson 32 from: Powerful Portraits using Mirrorless CamerasMiguel Quiles
Lessons
Class Introduction
11:07 2What is a Mirrorless Camera?
06:30 3Mirrorless Camera Advantages
07:30 4Mirrorless Compatibility
13:12 5Live Shoot: Mirrorless vs. DSLR
07:56 6Live Shoot: A7R II, A6300 & A7ii
29:27 7Compare Mirrorless & DSLR Images
21:37 8Posing Techniques Overview
15:46Lens Choice for Mirrorless
10:59 10Savage Collapsable Backdrops Demo
11:36 11Client Portrait Shoot Overview
04:00 12Importance of Tethering While Shooting
12:40 13Lighting Set-up for Client Portrait Shoot
08:46 14Live Shoot: One-Light Client Portrait
11:58 15Live Shoot: Modifier Client Portrait
14:33 16Live Shoot: Side Lit Client Portrait
11:51 17Communication with Client
12:05 18Specific Portrait Techniques
03:43 19Fashion Beauty Shoot Overview
11:22 20Live Shoot: Beauty-Dish
23:09 21Live Shoot: Octabox
18:10 22Live Shoot: Umbrella
31:21 23One Light Set-Up for Male Portrait
07:33 24Live Shoot: One Light Male Portrait
15:50 25Live Shoot: Two Light Male Portrait
17:54 26Live Shoot: One Light with High-Speed Sync
16:29 27Live Shoot: Two Lights With High Speed Sync
17:39 28Retouching Workflow Overview
03:00 29Culling Images in Capture One
18:05 30Basic Alien Skin Exposure Workflow
17:57 31Image Editing in Alien Skin
12:56 32Add Grain to Images in Alien Skin
04:52 33Skin Retouching in Alien Skin
10:36 34Exporting Images in Alien Skin
06:42 35Cull Images in Capture One
22:51 36Skin Retouching in Photoshop
22:16 37Draw Hair in Photoshop
04:53 38Finish Skin in Photoshop
23:51 39Change Backdrop Color in Photoshop
11:14 40Alien Skin Exposure Overview
15:20 41Sharpen & Add Grain in Alien Skin
09:05 42Exporting Images for Clients
06:09 43Mobile Workflow with Mirrorless
15:51Lesson Info
Add Grain to Images in Alien Skin
Grain. This is something that, for me, this is powerful. Like this is it. And it's very weird because a lot of people kind of look at me sideways when they're like, Miguel, you add grain to your image? You spent all this money to get this super-expensive camera, and then you add grain afterwards? And I say, yes. Because part of the magic of film, back in the days, were the different types of grain, and the quality of the grain. And if you look at ad campaigns, and you look at images on fancy designer brands, and you see the pictures on their stores, you may not notice that there is grain that has been added to images. And for mine, I would say 95% of the images that I shoot in the studio, I add grain in post. And I do it using Alien Skin Exposure. 'Cause it's very powerful for you to be able to customize and add grain to your shot. So for this I usually look at a part of the image where there's mid-tones, highlight and shadow. Because the program actually is able to add grain to specif...
ic parts of the image. So if you wanted to, for example, this is the overall grain strength, so you can kind of tweak and customize the amount of grain that's in a particular shot. So if you click here, by the way, you can just type if you are with your pen and it's kind of hard sometimes to get like 101.05. You can just type that in. So looking at this particular shot, and I'll actually ... Let's go back here, and let me open this thing up here. And I just always make sure that I do kind of like a before and after look to the shot. So let's see. Did I switch images here? Did I just do the old okey doke? I did. All right, let's go back here. So let's go with reela, and so I'll zoom in. And looking at this particular shot, let's go back in here, sorry. My palm is touching the tablet so it's undoing everything that I'm doing here. All right, so if you look at this particular shot, If I wanted to remove the grain just from the shadows, I can kind of play with just the shadow slider. So you can see that if I go here, there's no shadows in the grain, or no grain in the shadows. Or I could go ahead and I can add a ton of grain into the shadow area. So it's very powerful, in that, I can customize where I want that grain to be. I could go ahead and increase the grain just in the mid-tones, or I could take it away. So usually in a portrait, I want the grain to be very subtle in the highlights and the mid-tones. And also in the shadows. I want it to be a very subtle-looking grain. But for your own taste, you may decide that you want to add more or less in different areas. The other thing you could do is you could change the roughness or the roughness of the grain. So if you wanted to make it more rough, so that it appears more grainy, you could do that just by sliding the roughness up or down. So these are all things that, again, the grain tool for me, in Alien Skin Exposure, is super powerful, 'cause you can customize it exactly the way that you want it. So I'm kinda cool with the way that this grain looks in this particular shot. You have infrared bokeh, which are features that I don't use for portraits. But if you wanted to get kind of a ... Let's fit this on the screen. You can get different IR looks, which, again, for landscapes and things like that, these are very cool effects to add to them. Bokeh basically gives you a blur to the image. So if you have a shot that you want to add that magical type of blur to it, they have a bokeh tool that you can actually customize the blur on an actual image. We shot this one wide open at F 1.4, so I'm not gonna adjust the blur, 'cause it's already looks pretty good with the blur. You also have the metadata tab where if you want to basically add your copyright to the photo, so people ask me about watermarks, and I don't watermark my images. Well, what I will end up doing is I'll go into the metadata, go into copyright, and put Miguel Quiles Photography. Put my name, address, email, and that will be in the file. So I don't really need to add something. Because if I add my watermark to this image, it's going to take away from the look of the shot.
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a Creativelive Student
I want to commend you for hosting Miguel Quiles. He is beyond competent and knowledgeable. Light is Light, but It is encouraging to see incredible minority photographers on your platform and to see diversity in the presenters. It is inspirational for minorities to see themselves on the center stage. I sincerely thank you for that. I am buying this course although I am not a mirrorless shooter because of my support of Miguel and the quality of his instruction of which benefits all photographers. He is a great addition to the Creative Live Family of Presenters that I have supported as well. Kudos Creative Live!
Danae Khan Jones
Wow! As a Newb and someone looking to get into portrait/studio photography, this course was perfect and comprehensive. SO MUCH GOOD CONTENT. Miguel is so approachable about questions, positive, and thorough in his explanations. This course broke down the gear and technical side very well. I recommend going to a class live. It was a great experience with food and beautiful facilities. The facility has a positive vibe and really encouraged me to be creative. Thank you for the experience and knowledge!
Sharon
WOW!!! I LOVED THIS CLASS!!! I learned so much. He made lighting soooo simple, I finally understood. I liked the way he explained the why of his camera settings and how to overcome ambient light. he explained and made everything simple!!! I liked the way he talked about connecting with your clients. I am so happy I purchased this class. I finally understood lighting What a great teacher!! Thank you!!
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