Mastering Affinity Photo - 11: No Tripod, No ND Filters, No Problem!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
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In this video series, I'll be demonstrating all of the features of, and how to use, Affinity Photo.
In this video, I demonstrate how to get the soft, blurred, flowing water look when you don't have a tripod, ND Filters or both by simply taking multiple images and doing a trick in Affinity Photo.
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Hi, Anthony, I just switched from Photoshop to Affinity Photo, and your tutorials are the best I can find, I really mean it.
Regards from Taiwan.
Hi Anthony - I'm a big AF fan - very powerful and a very reasonable one-off price (a great piece of photo editing software from a UK company btw...) and I think your Mastering Affinity Photo series is really excellent; so thank you for creating the series. This particular episode on emulating a blurred moving water non-tripod ND shot, especially the wheeze of duplicating one of the images and putting it on the top of the layers to eliminate incidental movement is absolutely genius!! Great stuff - more please!!
Wow Anthony that was a truly masterclass video, my compliments to you. I have come across that situation a few times and after this video I know I can capture the scene I had in my head . The video was precise, absolutely able to follow and a credit to your presentation, well done. I have seen a few of your videos and happy to subscribe to your knowledge. Thank you again from England, Pete.
Outstanding tutorial Anthony. Will be using this technique in the future. 👍
Super helpful and very well explained.
Very nice technics, thanks for sharing it
You´ve got a talent to teach
Thank you very much for sharing.
Wow, realy great - Thank you !!
Great stuff 👍👍👍
Excellent, thanks!
"It's MUCH easier to do" (than PS) and that is yet another great reason to switch to Affinity.. Why strain your brain and fuddle around with minor adjustments when you can get the exact same results in a much easier and faster process in order to accomplish the same end result? AFFINITY just makes better sense!
Very nice ! I never imagined before this technique. Do you think that taking several photographs with a greater interval you could blur the clouds if nothing else is moving ?
I am not an affiliate for Affinity Photo and they are not paying me to do these videos. I make no money if you purchase the product.
Please read my Code of Ethics Statement here:
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In this video series, I'll be demonstrating all of the features of, and how to use, Affinity Photo.
In this video, I demonstrate how to get the soft, blurred, flowing water look when you don't have a tripod, ND Filters or both by simply taking multiple images and doing a trick in Affinity Photo.
All the videos in this series can be found here:
bit.ly/2p7LEjX
For more info about me, visit this page:
bit.ly/2K2wQLU
If you're interested in helping me keep creating free photography how-to videos and improving the quality of those videos, please visit this page:
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oh great, I don't know well about Affinity photo but looks like a good alternative
Great title.
Vey cool
Hi Anthony, thank you for this great tip 👌. Affinity Photo works great. But I found that it lacks features with the Sources tab. For example: working on focus stacking can be very time consuming. After closing and opening AP the referenced files are gone and I have to manually re-add them. Depending on the the numbers of photo’s, this can be time consuming. Also, ordering of Sources files is not an option. Which makes it even more time consuming. Do you have experience with that?
Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱
Anthony, since Adobe is raising their price on Lightroom/Photoshop subscription, I am seriously consider and researching a replacement, preferably one - that had editing, organization, layers, masking, and selection included. But, two products would be ok, and one would need to contain the organization.
The editing and layer work would need to cover the most used, practical functions that PS does, replacement of a section, selection, as well as painting in and out of a layer.
The organization would need to include the abilities of LR such as collections/albums - smart if possible, color-star-and pick/favorite rankings, and keywords.
The organization of the software would need to be able to import from the LR catalog and read the metadata, keywords, and the current editing as best as possible.
I have been reviewing Capture One, Luminar, and Affinity Photo so far. Haven't determined a catalog and importing from LR in Luminar or Affinity so far. Layers in Luminar seem to be only painting in and out of a layer, but not replacing.
Any opinion? I like the professional reputation of Capture One, but don't see some features. I like the Photoshop features of Affinity.
Michael Miller - you’re not gonna get the exact same whatever you choose as an alternative; even once you find something with the same or similar features, there’s always a learning curve, the shock of the new; if you’re pressed for time, it is easier to just give in the what you know and is comfortable with.
Personally I come from using Aperture, which I was happy with, and though I tried to like Lightroom by switching exclusively to it for a time to force myself to learn it, I just wasn’t happy with it, I didn’t enjoy using it and it’s modular system and poor metadata management.
Long story short, I’ve tried all the various Raw developer alternatives, and came to the conclusion that a combination of Photo Mechanic and Capture One gave me what I wanted. C1 felt a lot more comfortable coming from Aperture, and Photo Mechanic gave me all the import, renaming, metadata management and fast sorting and rating I needed (hunt: Learn to use variables and set up keyword lists and templates). Also, a lesson I learned from the demise of Aperture (and later the Adobe rental model) is not to have your metadata tied to a proprietary database like Aperture or Lightroom, which makes Photo Mechanic integral to my new workflow; it uses Exiftools to embed all metadata, and having worked with Exiftool in the terminal for years to batch embed metadata for manual lenses etc (I have a set of Automator scripts set up, so all I do now is right-click a folder and choose a script), I trust it implicitly. Bonus with this is that they get indexed by OSX, and you can search any keyword in the Finder directly, and of course the metadata is available to any damn DAM or photo app you care to use, be it Lightroom, Capture One, Luminar, Affinity Photo, etc. Capture One gives me everything else, esp as I use both Canon and Fuji cameras.
I'm loving how widespread Affinity is becoming and how more and more people are dropping Adobe software. May this be a harsh lesson to Adobe not to add a dumb subsciption service that stings you more the less you use the software.
Flowing water looks good to me frozen not blurred.
I'm curious... (and I have never tried what I'm about to propose - so I don't know if it will work or not) since you are stacking several images, how about taking say 3 or 4 shots to insure a clear focused surrounding, then holding the camera for several time exposed shots ( one second, two second, whatever). Composite the long exposure "flow" shots under a clear focused shot, then erase the mask to the flowing water - much like you did in the video. There is no flowing water anywhere near me, so I can't try this to see if it will work - maybe you or someone else can and let us know. I'm speculating the "flow" will be more dramatic......
Burt Brown - you mean, take one long exposure for the water, and one normal exposure for the surrounds, and blending with masks; sure. For instance, it is used a lot in nightscape photography, where you expose for the night sky and foreground separately, or stacking images of busy areas, say the Louvre, to remove people by averaging them, while you may want to keep areas without blurring, like the clouds, trees, etc.
Why would it look better blurred. Just because everybody does it doesn't make it right. Keep it natural no bullshit. The best pictures where the ones straight out of the camera. IMHO!
#IShootjpeg
Personal preference; blurring gives a sense of movement as we see water, freezing it’s motion looks unnatural, since we never see it that way. It’s the difference between purely recording a snapshot in time, and taking a photo and editing it to evoke the mood and feeling of that moment in time. Neither is the only right way, just different ways of seeing and conveying that moment.