Serge Ramelli Photography

Here are the 4 tricks to speed up Lightroom Classic in 2019

 

1. Make sure your catalog is on an SSD drive

2. Use the Build Smart preview

3. use Embedded and side card options when you import

4. Make sure that your GPU is being used

 

Voila hope that helps!

In this video I share with you my tips on food photography and you can find the list of the props that I used for this photoshoot:

Light:

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Backgrounds:

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The Wheat:

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The Cloth Red Napkins

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The Cloth Blue Napkins

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Recommended macro for

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Nikon: https://amzn.to/2yUv7F5

Sony E mount: Rokinon 100mm F2.8 E

Have fun!

In this video I will show you how to create a depth map in Photoshop. The easy way is to choose 3 levels of depths:

1. The background usually the sky select it and make it black on a new layer

2. The middle ground select it and fill it with 50% grey

3. The Foreground select it and fill it with pure white

Export that file with the name of the photo of your choice and add plus _depth.jpg at the end.

Go to Facebook, search Facebook 360° and like the page!

Then load the two photos, for example, arc.jpg and arc_depth.jpg. Facebook is automatically going to make it in 3D for you.

With the iPhone it is even easier, just take a portrait photo and load that into facebook by 1st choosing the 3D photo option and you are done!

A cool way to get more exposure on Facebook and attract more attention for your work

Also if you haven’t heard, I released a course on fine art photography, you can get it here: https://www.photoserge.com/fineart

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Here are my 5 tips:

1. Dodge and burn slightly your photos

2. Police Border your photos

3. Close the curtains if you have great interior lights

4. If you want to show outside wait for the blue hour

5. Use existing element for White Balance

In this tutorial I will show you how to erase anything even if it is really hard in photoshop. The workflow is as follow:

1. Find a texture similar to put instead of the object you want to erase

2. Make a selection with the pen tool of the texture and put it on its own layer with CMD/CTLR J, feather the selection if needed

3. Adjust with Level the texture luminosity

4. Reconstruct the scene bit by bit

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Check out the 3 things that have helped me the most as a photographer: http://bit.ly/SergeRamelliWebinar In this video, I cover the 5 biggest mistakes to avoid when retouching your photos

1. Too much Clarity, contrasty and Textures

2. Too Obvious Dodge and Burn

3. Colors from another planet

4. Not using the standard crops or Horizon not straight

5. Oversaturated photo

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1. We are going to add some clouds

2. Make the luminance match

3. add some Rain

4. make it into a dramatic black and white, check out my video on how to create dramatic black and white check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me5o8qhXJsc

In this tutorial I will show you a workflow that I like to do when I do composite:

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1. I open as smart object the two photos I want to blend.

2. I do a temporary development of the raw file to help the software do a better cut out

3. Then I use the Quick Select Tool for the rough selection

4. I use refine Edge tools for the hair part and the auto detect features to help with the selection

5. I add some Feather and smooth out my selection VERY slightly

6. I use a brush that has 85% of hardness and 100% of opacity to refine my selection

7. If they are fridges left in my subject I select the area with other Lasso tool and then I do a Level adjustment ON THE MASK to get rid of the fringe

Here are my 10 rules for photographing Epic landscapes:

1. Go to a beautiful place. That seems simple but it is the base for a nice landscape photo

2. Find the Right Composition during the day. you can see better during the day and it easier to find the right framings

3. Balance the Right foreground element This is probably the most important point for me in composition, finding the right foreground not too small not too big that helps communicate a strong story and give a sense of depths and from where to look

4. Follow the Leading lines Again this helps direct the eyes and to give depth and interest to a photo

5. Avoid High Frequency textures. probably the most frequent error I see, lots of sands and rocks that are confusing to see

6. Shoot Manual it is a great way to be sure your exposure is right on, and you can easily synch a retouch from one photo to the next in Lightroom that way

7. Use a tripod with a self timer Make sure you are at 100 iso and your photo is sharp

8. Manual focus on the Middle Ground At night the focusing can be off by focusing on the main subject manually and zooming in with you lens to be sure you are sharp is super important.

9. Play with Long exposure When you have Clouds and water long exposure is a cool effect. I recommend .5 second for waves. 10. Slightly under expose your photo The best way to get the best sky while still having enough light for your main subject

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In this video I will show how to use basic exposure technics to take a photo that was really underexpose and turn into a work of art. using the next texture feature, clarity and Dehaze we are going to have fun and try to make this into a cool grungy photo

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