Evolution of a Glamour Image in Post
Lee Varis
Great Glamour Starts with Light but Finishes with Luminosity One of the concepts I stress most with my students is that photography is all about the play of lights and
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Lee Varis is a Boston based photo-illustrator whose career in commercial photography spans four decades. His work includes movie posters (Star Trek,) albums, CDs, and magazines (Nat Geo, Fortune, PDN.) Lee is the author of the best selling Photoshop book “Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing and Retouching Faces and Bodies.”
Build a Better Background for a Glamour Image
Lee Varis
Sometimes we get stuck with a plain background that we’d have preferred to be more interesting. The solution is often to dress it up in post I want to share
Its All About the Square
Lee Varis
Why I love Instagram & Hipstamatic Like every photographer nowadays, I have been shooting with my iPhone more—it has virtually replaced the pocket point & shoot! The one camera that
Cambo Actus + FUJIFILM GFX-part-2
Lee Varis
Testing the Ultimate Technical Camera – part 2 This 2nd part of my examination of the Cambo Actus GFX system focuses (literally) on the lens tilting functionality. The tilting lens
Cambo Actus & FUJIFILM GFX – part-1
Lee Varis
Testing the Ultimate Technical Camera – part 1 Cambo USA recently contacted me with an opportunity to test the Cambo Actus technical camera with the FUJIFILM GFX—this was very exciting
Fujifilm Meets Pixelstick
Lee Varis
Pixelstick meet Fujifilm… now lets create! While we were on our photo tour of Venice Carnival, Bobbi Lane and I had a great opportunity to test out a prototype of
See Like a Camera – Part-2
Lee Varis
Shoot Mode Tone Control Picking up where I left off last time. Besides the Film Simulations themselves, The Fuji-X cameras offer additional controls for customizing the look of the in-camera
See Like a Camera – Part-1
Lee Varis
Don’t just pre-visualize—see the shot! My “Re-Thinking the Raw File Workflow” post stirred up quite a storm of protest from photographers so thoroughly invested in a raw-file workflow that they
Fujifilm GFX – Medium Format Gets Real
Lee Varis
An Adventure in Venice, Italy for Carnival Bobbi Lane and I had the great fortune to shoot with a prototype GFX 50S on our tour of Venice Carnival 2017 this past
The Magic of Venice with Fuji-X
Lee Varis
Photographing Venice during Carnival with Fuji-X cameras I recently had the opportunity to attend Chromasia’s Venice Carnival photo tour led by my wife Bobbi Lane and our friend David Nightingale. All three of
Adventure in Color and Tone – Lightroom vs Photoshop
Lee Varis
Editor’s Note: This is an advanced tutorial. For a detailed explanation of these techniques, Lee is sharing see his post on LAB Masking. Everyone would agree that a great photo starts with
Lab Luminosity Masks
Lee Varis
Editor’s Note: Lee presents a very powerful way of enhancing color and sharpening an image in this post. The video that concludes this post is an excellent tutorial with step
Two Heads Are Better Than One – How to Deal with Bad Expressions
Lee Varis
How to deal with the unfortunate facial expression in group portraits Ah… it’s that time again! The time when we are challenged to capture the idealized family portrait to send
Apple’s Automator – The Ultimate Workflow Tool
Lee Varis
Imaging Workflow Beyond Lightroom & Photoshop Most of the time, photo-imaging workflow can be completely managed within the familiar applications of Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, Photo Mechanic, etc… but occasionally it
How to Use a Digital Projector as a Glamour Spotlight
Lee Varis
An Alternative to Focusing Fresnel Spot Light with the Benefit of Easy Custom Shapes I have been experimenting with digital projectors as a light source in my Glamour Photography Workshops.
Architecture Interiors — The Broad Stage
Lee Varis
Creating Panorama Scenes in Photoshop I did an exterior shoot for the Broad Stage back in 2011 (see the blog post here) and the next assignment was to document the
Oben TT-100 Table Top Tripod
Lee Varis
There some times when even a travel tripod is just too much to lug around, and sometimes you need to get really low, or switch quickly between tripod steady, and
How to Light Close-up Flower Photos with a Flashlight
Lee Varis
Summer is Here – Time for Flower Photography I just thought I’d share a quick little lighting technique for your flower photography. Now that spring is past and summer is
Gear Review: Oben Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod
Lee Varis
Just Enough Tripod & Then Some At some point every photographer needs a tripod. How much tripod depends on the specific needs of the photographer—are you a landscape photographer, portrait
Lee Varis’ 10-Channel Workflow – Part-3
Lee Varis
Picking up where we left off in part-2… Now for the really fun stuff… make a new empty layer at the top of the layer stack. Then select Image-> Apply
Lee Varis’ 10-Channel Workflow – part-2
Lee Varis
Picking up where we left off in part-1… Now lets look at enhancing the color saturation. Of course this could be done with a Hue/Saturation adjustment, but we will do