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Kelby Training – Intimate Landscape Photography

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Kelby Training – Intimate Landscape Photography
English | Size: 492.28 MB
Category: Photography


Bill is currently a Nikon Professional Services tech rep for the Southern U.S. and Nikon’s liaison person for the Nature Market. In the past Bill has been a High School teacher and football coach, AP rep, Medical photographer, and Marketing Public Relations person. In 1991 he and his wife Sherelene founded the Great American Photography Weekends and for 12 years he ran the field events for the company, running over 250 events in every major national park and in Africa and the Galapagos Islands. Bill is the author of five photography books, including his newest – America From 500 Feet II [Read more…]

Kelby Training – Freeze Motion Photography

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Kelby Training – Freeze Motion Photography
English | Size: 547.97 MB
Category: Tutorial


Photographing a moving subject requires the right balance of shutter speed, aperture, and lighting values. In this course, photographer Frank Doorhof shows viewers some techniques for freezing a subject in motion. He travels to an outdoor skate park to shoot a BMX bicycle rider and then goes into the studio to photograph a leaping model. During the shoots, Doorhof talks about how he adjusts his lighting setups and camera settings. He also discusses the importance of changing perspective, how to use strobes and flashes to achieve high contrast effects, a white balance trick for colorizing your images, and how to use scrims and flags to eliminate lens flare. Photographing moving subjects can yield some exciting and dynamic images so follow along with this Kelby Training course and learn how it is done. [Read more…]

Kelby Training – Concert Photography

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Kelby Training – Concert Photography
English | Size: 1.19 GB
Category: Photography


There are many challenges to shooting concerts. Photographers have to deal with variable lighting conditions, moving subjects, tight spaces, and a limited time to get the shots they need. Concert photographers Scott Diussa and Alan Hess share some of what they have learned during their years of experience. They talk about their choices for camera gear, their shooting styles, how to anticipate shots, how to get a photo pass and signing releases, working around obstructions, lighting considerations, and the importance of shooting in spot-metering mode. The bad news is that it’s tough to make a living as a concert photographer, but both of these instructors agree, it is a very rewarding hobby as a photographer. [Read more…]

IDG Female Figure Fusion II Drawing And Painting Body Tutorial

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IDG Female Figure Fusion II Drawing And Painting Body Tutorial
English | Size: 90 MB
Category: Tutorial


The most requested tutorial after the release the the First Female Manga Fusion. Now, here come the sequel (part II). This tutorial will show you more about anatomy for artist and how to intuitively apply them to refine you art work. If you are trying to improve your female drawing, rendering, and coloring skill, this tutorial is for you!
In this feature tutorial, you will learn to construct and paint a hybrid (fusion) style of anime/manga & semi- realistic painting sexy female figure/characters. In this tutorial , I will show you how to draw and paint a sexy female character. The main focus will be around rendering the frontal upper body (Torso), how to create action poses or gestures, and draw and render female’s back. In this tutorial you will find yourself further into the right mindset of how to create right feminine posture to accentuate the female attraction vibe. [Read more…]

Hollywood Camera Work The Master Course v1-6

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Hollywood Camera Work The Master Course v1-6
English | Size: 1.42 GB
Category: Tutorial


The primary goal of The Master Course in High-End Blocking and Staging is to do the most effective blocking with the highest production-value, and to build a vast repertoire of techniques to make Directing more expressive and ultimately more fun.
The course also deals with the problem that blocking often grabs so much of our attention that we’re forced to choose between doing camera work or nurturing great performances. If we choose acting, the camera work suffers. If we choose camera work, the actors are often left to direct themselves. One of the key goals of the course is to have great camera work become so automatic that we can do both at the same time. [Read more…]

HIGH-END INDUSTRY RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES VIDEO

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HIGH-END INDUSTRY RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES VIDEO
English | Size: 2.53 GB
Category: Tutorial


Text from the back cover:
As you already know, the high end retouching industry has been very tight lipped about the techniques they use to produce world class results for magazines, advertising campaigns, displays and billboards throughout the world.
The only techniques that have been readily available to the public have been the so called �smooth or soft skin� methods that simply blur or smudge the skin texture into an unrealistic plastic doll mess.
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Gnomon Workshop – Lighting and Rendering Series – 7 New Tutorials with Jeff Patton

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Gnomon Workshop – Lighting and Rendering Series – 7 New Tutorials with Jeff Patton
English | Size: 732 MB
Category: Tutorial


Included Video Tutorials:
Material Basics
Displacement (Duration: 52 min)
Lighting Basics
3ds Max Light Basics (Duration: 44 min)
Area Light Issues (Duration: 32 min)
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Gnomon Workshop – Dynamic Figure Drawing: The Body

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Gnomon Workshop – Dynamic Figure Drawing: The Body
English | Size: 3.6 GB
Category: Tutorial


In this DVD, David Finch reveals his step-by-step process for drawing the human body. He starts with simple tube form shapes, and then covers the placement of muscle throughout both the male and female bodies. David demonstrates how to pose a simple tube form effectively, allowing you to block-in and draw a figure in perspective and in a variety of poses. He discusses balance, posture and presentation, emphasizing line weight and lighting. Finally, David puts everything together and draws fully realized bodies with a variety of intricate poses, and a variety of proportions and details. This constructive drawing process teaches you to draw convincing human bodies without the need for tracing or using reference. [Read more…]

Gnomon Humanoid modeling

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Gnomon Humanoid modeling
English | Size: 3.24 GB
Category: Tutorial


In this polygonal modeling DVD, Sean Mills shows you how to create a bipedal humanoid model. Sean begins with a set of primitives for different body parts – arms, legs, torso and face – and refines them into muscle masses, primary contours and silouhettes. He then shows you how to refine those masses, establishing preliminary edge loops around musculature and areas of major deformation. Sean concludes by integrating these primary forms onto a contiguous character mesh.
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