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where you'll learn how to take stunning photos and then polished them

in post-production. So your joining here in New York. I'm in New York

I'm gonna spend 15 minutes wandering around this little small area

to see what photos we can take. behind me is the flat iron building

and hopefully we'll find some good shots of that and the park across the way here

so

let's get going. okay so for my first shot

well I'm gonna do the clock here it says everything about the place

Fifth avenue building we're gonna have to be the flat iron behind it

okay let's come in here I'm gonna do a reasonably tight close shot I think as

well because

well I think it look's good so there is a bit of a problem with the the lamp shade

coming through the streetlight but there's not alot I can do about that it's just

just there's isn't it will have to live with that but what I will do is try make

sure the clock

is between the two buildings so it

fills that gap in the sky good but I reckon is a really wide show in here as

well so

just come down a little bit lower. get a wide shot

now looking back at the camera I can see it look a bit shadowy

on the clock but not a lot I can do about that

that something will have to try and fix in Photoshop and as we have only got

fifteen minutes

lets go on and take more pictures

okay so I think there is a panno here

just to really establish the scene just to give you a feel of how much there is

here to take in its incredible

so let's grab my camera, now pano's if you wanna see really detailed

information how to shot panoramas

go check out Adorama TV's Learning Center a check out my very

first video no my second video. Video 102

were I do Pano's in more detail but for a very quick overview

I'm just gonna start in aperture priority mode I'm gonna choose

f8 as my aperture and I'm gonna take a meter reading

which is telling me at 200th of a second ISO 200

f8. I'll dial those numbers in to manual

so all of my panno shots have the same settings, turn my camera on it's side so I'm in

portrait format

and away we go. So doesn't matter whether you start left to right

but the first picture, picture of my hand so I know that's the beginning in my pano

and around we go

one, two , three, four ,

five , six. wait for the lorry to go through

Sevan. There we go. okay so there's my little pano

and I'll stitch that together in Photoshop we should have a much more dynamic shot

with that huge 180 degree

field of view

random shots but

it's very New York

well it's a bit of a cliche but

one thing you notice when you're in New York is the sheer number of yellow cabs

well sort of orangy yellow cabs. I've got to get a picture of those

and I think just over here is where I'm gonna do it

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so we've got cars taxis whizzing past me cabs

whizzing past me all the time lets get a shot now first of all I need to come

of manual and back into aperture priority mode so

I'm gonna choose a setting that's gonna give me a shutter speed

thats gonna give that motion in fact I'm a work in shutter priority mode so

on my Canon 60d that the TV setting and I'm gonna dial down my shutter speed to

well I dunno

I'm guessing about a 30th of a second should give me some motion blur cuz I

want these cabs to be

slightly blurred to give that terror that you're about to get run over

cos that's what I've got every time I stepped into the road since I've been

here

okay so lets just take a quick shot. There we go so

ok brilliant so we've got a couple of great shots there let's go find somewhere else to take

some more pictures before we run out of time

so

we just come across to the park right across from the Flat iron Building and

there's all sorts of great little shots

in here some people, some objects but these things

these have really caught my eye and their a little bit of actually i dunno what way are

everybody's been looking under neath so I'm gonna just

have a sneaky look under there see if it's a good photo

you can see what I can see if you could see if you could see this you'd you'd be

grabbing your camera

you be taking exactly the same shot that I'm gonna take which is

a brilliant self portrait

well it's a self portrait that's pretty

incredible thats just great fun so couple things I'm gonna look for here

i'm looking at a shot that seems to have a massive depth the field so I'm gonna

dial up my

aperture to f8 it's one of those depth of field things where if you're not quite

sure f8

is a great place to be because just it just generally doesn't matter

but F8 is giving me a shutter speed that's a little bit on the slow side

so I'm gonna increase my ISO to compensate

all the way up to 800 ISO

800 ISO yeah i mean that that looks , that's incredible

I really love that, that's great

right okay so well time's running out fifteen minutes a pretty much done

and

I'm no doubt gonna stay here for ages more taking a few pictures but for this

challenge

I want one more shot looking up fifth avenue because as I look out there

I can see a rather tall building, it's the Empire State Building and I've gotta get

a picture that is one of those pictures you gotta do

I've got to do this without getting run over by cabs

wish me luck, here we go

look there's a gap in the traffic

I'll be honest is not my best picture but I'm a tourist

and I'm enjoying myself here's and it's one of the must have shots

and that's one of my little memories from New York

but when you look a little bit closer sometimes you see things that

the touristy shot will miss, So I'm just gonna

go in a little bit closer I'm gonna go with a nice

wide aperture so F4

and I'm gonna get this shot

bet you didn't see that one

so there you go fifteen minutes have come and gone

I'm still in one piece and I have been run over

which is fabulous but what we gonna do now is to get these pictures

back onto my computer and we'll see what we can do with them inside of

Photoshop

I'm gonna do that right now

well it was absolutely freezing in New York so I'm back in my office and

warming up quite nicely

and I had chance to look at the pictures the one I want to edit

is the first shot it's a great raw file with bags of potential

it's the picture of the clock with Fifth Avenue in there

the Flatiron Building behind and I'm gonna stop by deliberately

under exposing the image now if I'd have done this to the picture in camera if

either deliberately or accidentally under exposed the image

I'd have looked at it and thought I've messed that one up and

technically I have but were gonna use raw to really maximize

the potential in the picture we're gonna push this as far as I'm comfortable

to take the raw file which is possibly a little bit too far for some people but

that's okay

it's my picture so what I'm gonna do next is to say okay more highlighted

detail please by reducing the highlights but then open up the shadows

by increasing the shadow slider so I get something out of the shadows to.

little bit under exposed there's a bit of a hint of a gap there on the the histogram

so

let's just bring up the whites just to fill in that end, now

obviously this picture needs clarity say obviously I do use clarity lot but

these pictures got some great texture and that's what clarity really picks up on

now color this picture could work as a black and white

I think, or it could work a color image and in fact if I increase my saturation

the colors really hold up well so another nice little tip is if you're

saturation can go really high and you don't fall down

then you can sort out your colors and just mute them back a little bit

by pulling back the vibrance like so now if you choose to

go down the color route or and the black and white route and want to find out

more about how to be black and white work

then check out the Adorama Learning Center has a brilliant tips and

techniques

on shooting in black and white and editing your pictures in black and white

okay now I like that I like the hint of color

but also the hint of monochrome but the monochrome gives me the ability to do a

few things

for example I can jump into split toning and I can split tone my

image and I'm gonna do it by adding 50 to the highlights

230 to the shadows, let's start with the highlight color

I chosen my color as warm tone by adding fifty

but the amount of warm tone is governed by the saturation slider

and you can see how it picks up on that black and white sky that we created

by reducing vibrance and put a nice warmth into the

the highlights in the sky same with the shadows

when I increase the saturation on the shadows were putting some blue

into the shadowy areas in the picture and thats split toning

different tone in the highlights and the shadows okay while we're here we're

gonna come into the effects as well

and put a little bit of post crop vignetting just to darken the edges

and that will make that center feel darker notice I said feel

doesn't actually change the center just feels like it does

well one of the great things about the raw editor in Lightroom and Photoshop

is you don't have to make

just global changes that changes to

all of the picture equally you can make local changes as well

so you can be much more selective about what you do

to small parts of the picture now here in Photoshop

it's the adjustment brush its on the Options bar on the top

so let's go grab that and I'm gonna increase my exposure

by about a stop, we'll make my brush a little bit bigger

and we'll just paint an extra stopof light over the clock face

because it was feeling a little bit dark and a little bit gloomy

lets make the brush a little bit smaller and I'll just tidy up. Put more light

down here too now you don't have to stop there you can have as many these brushes

you like

so I'm gonna get another new brush and this time what I'm gonna do

is I'm going to increase the clarity and I'm also gonna increase the contrast

and we're just gonna paint over the face of the clock and you will see how much

cuts through that haze and gives me a much clearer picture of

the clock face finally I'm also gonna add some temperature to the area

just to warm it up a little bit so it's not a cold looking

clock face it has some warmth in there and there you go

that's it that's my final picture completed

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