Black and white portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- In this session, portrait photographer Ivan Weiss walks you through a typical workflow for portrait retouching and conversion to black and white using Affinity Photo.
Ivan will be available on TH-cam’s Live Chat for this session’s premiere on Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 4pm BST.
As well as shooting full-time for private and corporate clients, Ivan teaches photography and mentors photographers looking to improve their work, their business and their understanding of portraiture.
You can see his work on his website ivanweiss.london and his Instagram feed / ivanweiss.london
See Ivan's previous Creative Session, on colour grading here: • Colour grading for dra...
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"Back it off a lot" - good advice! Bit of a David Bailey theme, you've pulled it off.
I'll happily take that comparison :)
absolute top class teaching, thank you Ivan :)
You have a great eye for light! The use of inverted curve adjustments screen and multiply blended for non-destructive dodging and burning is brilliant! I am going to copy your workflow of exaggerating adjustments to see the effect location more clearly, then reducing the opacity to the desired effect level. Oh, and tone mapping then changing the blend range to enhance the shadow detail is really effective! I really learned a lot watching you work! Thank you!
Absolutely, a masterful splendid effort. Well done; the portrait brings out the essence of her beauty and grace.
Thanks, Ivan. That was so interesting and informative. I love your delivery - it's so clear and understandable which makes me think I can do this! I've learnt so much.
You absolutely can do this, Nicki!
Another great tutorial from Ivan Weiss. We need more!
Thanks, Koldo! I'd love to make some more videos with Affinity.
Fantastic. Brilliant tutorial on face work.
Thanks! Verry inspiring tutorial. :)
Splendid work, Ivan. Your tutorials are always a treat. Very classy portrait as well.
Cheers!
thanks a lot!! one of the best tutorials I have seen for AF!
Thanks, Armin!
Awesome and inspiring, thank you
Incredible class I learned a lot.
Thanks, I particularly like the Tone Mapping step and blending .. neat trick
Yeah, one of those things I stumbled across by accident. It just adds a bit of grit to the shadows that I particularly like in b/w.
This is wonderful. Thanks Ivan!
Great lesson and some very interesting techniques I might have a play with. Great stuff Ivan.
Give it a go and see!
Great session. Thanks.
An intensive method for the b&w conversion. Show up the power of this software. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Italy
Grazie, Pino!
Thanks Ivan and Affinity for this informative video👍🏻
My pleasure, Marc.
great, very appreciated!!
Another excellent addition to the series, thank you!
There's more to come. Stay tuned!
@@IvanWeiss-london Always a treat to know more is on the way....thanks for your teachings!
awesome, thank you!
Excellent walk through, thanks!
Glad you liked it, Steve.
Watching year later - still usefull! Well cooked Ivan.
merci pour la video , tres jolie rendu , je vais m en inspirer pour mes prochains portraits
merci patron ;-)
Thanks Ivan very informative and thought provoking, I have a couple of portraits that just didn’t seem to cut the mustard but I’ve just found another way to skin a cat ! Can we have more please, your method is easy to follow . 😃
I'm sure there will be more in future. Stay tuned!
Wow learnt so much thank you
Glad you found it useful, Michael.
Thanks. Learned stuff!
That makes me happy :)
Thank you very much for teaching and sharing. I have learned a lot. It has been so interesting and useful !!
Ivan, this is a really great masterclass. With the first portrait, would it be possible to achieve a similar effect with the beauty dish as a main light and a reflector? I'm a hobbyist, but I'd like to get more serious about shaping the lighting, caveat being a limited budget. Also, as a side note, do you ever work with constant artificial lighting sources? I have this thought that flash photography causes the subject to tense up (I could be wrong, since many photographers such as yourself achieve phenomenal results).
love your approach and am incorporating some of those tricks (exaggerated BW for blemish removal). Would love for you to post some sections of the final image magnified (I am trying to find a balance between blemish removal and retention as this is what establishes the balance making image look real)
That's always a tricky one. Ultimately it comes down to a balance between your personal taste and how/where the image is going to be used. A good rule of thumb is to get to a point where you think it is finished, reduce the opacity of your skin retouching layers by 50% and then take a break. When you come back to it, ask yourself immediately if it feels overdone.
That was wonderful! Doing the skin retouch on layers *under* the high frequency layer finally made perfect sense to me. Don’t know why it took so long for that to click in my head. Can I ask what raw processor you use to get the low contrast “technicolor“ rendering?
Glad you enjoyed it, Steve. I do my raw conversion in Canon DPP, which allows me to use the Picture Styles (profiles) that I use in camera. The Technicolor profile is available online from various colour grading websites/forums.
@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you for taking the time to clarify. I live in a Nikon/CaptureOne workflow, but I'll investigate to see what similar profiles exist for my tool set. Your final version of the portrait was very powerful but I honestly loved the look of the image at the starting point, too!
@@stevenelson43 I'm certain there is a way to do something similar in C1.
@@IvanWeiss-london No doubt. C1 profiles and styles abound. The profile you install in your Canon camera itself, though… I've never entered those waters, so it's unknown territory for me.
@@stevenelson43 It's the same thing - a profile that converts the raw data into a readable image format (jpeg or tiff).
I cringed while watching this AMAZING tutorial, I have been doing this for quite a number of years and it just drove home the point of how little I actually know... Dunning Kruger is alive and well. Please keep these amazing tutorials coming...
Ps. Is there any chance of getting the original raw image so we can apply your techniques to a known result?
We are all always learning!
Are the luminosity adjustements on the HSL layer based on anything other than personal preference? I know there are luminosity values for RGB and CYM when converting to BW from Color based on Television standards when using a BW adjustement layer.
It's just my personal preference based on trial and error. I'm not necessarily trying to create an accurate b/w representation, it's more about creating the mood/feeling that I want.
Nice
i need help creating my own camo prints that can be repeated. i can only find help on photoshop on this topic
Try asking in the Affinity forum.
Check out this article on Affinity Spotlight, there's an accompanying video too:affinityspotlight.com/article/create-repeat-patterns-with-a-live-pattern-preview-in-affinity-designer-for-ipad/
Any chance you guys will do one of these for darker skin tones? This technique seems best for lighter skin tones. That would help me out a lot. Thanks for this regardless!
I use the same techniques regardless of the skin tone of the subject. Techniques are just tools, you have to use your eye to judge.
@@IvanWeiss-london I learned that cameras are default calibrated for white skin tones and that editing in post is the best way to get around this, save for making cameras that can adjust for dark skin tones. If you'd like I can link some videos explaining this awful habit that continues.
Having said that, I also learned that using the same techniques for editing dark skin tones as light skin tones is no good (and may be considered racist, actually). There are many photographers with many videos talking about this.... For Photoshop and Lightroom. I can't find one that talks about this using Affinity.
Thanks anyway!
@@shinkisoushi You can see plenty of examples of different skin tones in my work on my website and Instagram. The point is that we as artists have to make the decisions about how we apply the techniques to get the results that we want.
@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you for taking the time!
where do u develop the raw file ? and wich tablet?
I use Canon DPP for tethered capture and RAW conversion. I use the Wacom Intuos S tablet.
@@IvanWeiss-london thnx. any reason not using AF Photo for conversion ?
@@autoauto2000 I create my own colour profiles in the Canon software so that what I see in camera is exactly what I get in my converted TIFF
What do you mean by “flat profile” \? Profiles have zero impact on the raw file, it only affects the jpg preview...
I use a flat profile to convert my raw file into a TIFF for editing.