Sunday October 30, 2011

HDR Video Tutorial

Trey Ratcliff’s Photography, HDR, and Post-Processing Course

Welcome! This is my most complete product to date and contains everything you need. Just watch the video below for a little preview!

The Post-Processing and HDR Video Tutorial

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$97

Best Value – Total Package with Bonus!

Full access to private Clubhouse forums
BONUS! Free copy of the Top 10 Mistakes in HDR Processing eBook!
Over 130 RAW Working Files
11.5 hours of video instruction
- 9 classes – See below for topics
- Fully downloadable & Immediately available

$96

Total Package

Full access to private Clubhouse forums
Over 130 RAW Working Files
11.5 hours of video instruction
- 9 classes – See below for topics
- Fully downloadable & Immediately available

$87

Basic Package

11.5 hours of video instruction
- 9 classes- See below for topics
- Fully downloadable & Immediately available

Testimonials

“Trey inspired me. Opened up a whole new world and made me believe that, hey, I can do this.” – Peter Lemieszewski, New York

“Best value per session of training I’ve ever received.” – Eddie Clark, TX

“Even if you think you know everything about HDR it is still worth to attend the course.” - Adam Jurgilewicz, Poland

“I think the course was a brilliant mix of HDR skills, PS skills, and a better approach to photography.” - Cliff Scott-Williams, Illinois

“Everyone should take this course. There’s plenty there for beginners and for ‘experts.’ I am an ‘old school’ photographer. I started 55 years ago. I loved learning these new techniques to use in my digital darkroom. It sure beats the old darkroom with all the chemicals equipment.” – Kaz Ochi, California

“A wonderful experience – challenging, educational and fulfilling. As the last session concluded I felt a sense of loss knowing we would not be visiting with Trey again in a “next session”. The experience was, at least to me, what many must have felt listening to the WW II “fireside chats” with Roosevelt. While I do not intend to copy Trey I do intend to take what he has shared and expand my photographic style in an added direction with HDR. My take-a-way has from the outset has been to be yourself, open your mind to new possibilities, be sensitive to what you may not have seen before and be creative in a way that is satisfying to me personally.” – Richard deGolian, Illinois

“I have been doing HDR for over 3 years and now I’m ready to go back and reprocess some of my favorites using the techniques Trey shared with us.” – Debi Beauregard, Texas

“I was initially uncertain as to whether to ‘attend’ this webinar. I had purchased Treys’ DVD and wondered why I should spend more money on this. I must say that I enjoyed the webinars even more than the DVD’s & was surprised in how much I learned. Thanks again for an excellent presentation. I did & will continue to enjoy and learn. It was money well spent!!!’ - Jon Barney, Virginia

“In addition to a tremendous leap forward in my HDR photography, he helped me redefine the focus of my photography. I would like to thank Trey for his generous, giving nature. His unselfish attitude about sharing and his confidence that sharing would not diminish his personal potential is extremely refreshing.” - Keith Bradshaw, California

“It was really amazing to get 9+ hours of Trey’s time to learn how he does what he does. Priceless.” – Jeanine Moore, Pennsylvania

“It was well organized, but not ‘slick.’ There was a feeling of being in a classroom with a great prof.” – Ken Parker, California

“This is the best photo editing webinar or course I have ever taken. Trey thank you so much for the info and for the encouragement to express my creativity in new ways.” – Tad Wade, Texas

“Trey has a magical way of teaching that is fairly non-traditional.” – Cliff Baise, Texas

HDR Video Tutorial

Below has all the information you need about how to do not just HDR, but many other innovative and fun post-processing techniques.

Course Topics and Details

You can consume as much or as little as you like! Even though the whole package is a little overkill in terms of content, it’s nice to know that there is more depth there when you are ready for it. Below are the topics discussed in the various lessons!

Over 11 hours of video instruction
For beginners and moving into intermediate and advanced topics
Over 130 source working files included (in best packages)
Available for immediate download!

The Lectures…

I think it is important for you to understand the “thinking process” as well as the “photography process”, so I spend the first part of every session talking about the thinking that goes into everything I do, from composition to critiques.

Andrea, who helped me out with the event, got a lot of positive feedback about these sessions. She sent me this little quote to include here: “While the training on photography and post-processing with Trey are inspiring, and are certain to take your photography to the next level, I think the lectures in the beginning of each session are even more valuable. To be able to hear from an artist, in his own words, the thought processes behind his work is a mind & eye-opening experience.”

Lesson 1 Topics Discussed:

- Challenging your photography premises

- The importance of a deep knowledge of photography so there is no fragility

- Overcoming the unknown problems and a different approach

- Why I don’t teach in a step-by-step way

- Getting outside of the photography bubble

- The magic of this sort of photography and how people experience the magic

- Demos – The overall workflow. A quick demo that shows all the steps I go through when making a photo.

- Q&A – What mistakes do you see people commonly making when creating an HDR photo? JPG vs. TIFF in workflow?

Lesson 2 Topics Discussed:

- The forums and the experience of learning together.

- Autobracketing

- How to set up a NIkon

- How to set up a Canon

- Taking the photos – settings

- When to use 3+ brackets

- Bracketing versus RAW files

- Demos – 3 different Photomatix processing examples

- Q&A – Composing for HDR photos, color space, the importance of megapixels in cameras, the histogram

Lesson 3 Topics Discussed:

- How and why to share your photos online

- How to take criticism and how what to expect

- Don’t let the technical side of things over-influence the artistic side

- Demos – Critiques Critiques Critiques. Also how to make short cuts. Plus double-tone mapping demo.

- Q&A – Do I need a wide angle lens? Chromatic aberration fixing?

Lesson 4 Topics Discussed:

- Layers and post-processing

- The Pixel Peeping SS, the CA Police, and the Noise Gestapo

- A new way to think about Chromatic Aberration and Noise

- How the eye works and how Photomatix gets some of it right

- Where Photomatix breaks down

- How we remember Impressions rather than photos

- Demos – Layers in Photoshop and Layers in Elements + some Silver Efex Pro and Photomatix

- Q&A – Are you afraid of your images getting copied online? How do you take photos without people in them? When you go out, do you plan to take HDR Photos? How can I get my photos to have that WOW factor?

Lesson 5 Topics Discussed:

- Composition and setting up for shots

- Using color in composition

- Wide angle and lens choice for composition

- Demos – Creating and cropping a too-wide photo from London

- Q&A – How do you get rid of noise at night (2 demos shown)? What about getting releases? How do I hide/show layers?

Lesson 6 Topics Discussed:

- How to not be intimidated

- How most people in the world are pretending

- What Photomatix is good and bad at

- Demos – Countless Photomatix processing sessions including several single RAW photos. Also a full alpha to omega single RAW file.

- Q&A – How do you make a blog post (a full example shown)? Extreme low light situations? How do you get into the “flow” of photography? The idea of oversaturation vs. rich colors? How do you get press passes? What do you do in extremely low light situations?

Lesson 7 Topics Discussed:

- Learning by guessing, trying, and making mistakes

- My forest image and a challenge to guess how it was created

- Many many tools

- Demos – Three complete demos, and demos showing several different tools

- Q&A – What should be the next thing I buy for my camera (wide-angle or flash)? Batch processing in LR? Putting a Nikon lens on a Canon body?

Lesson 8 Topics Discussed:

- The business of photography (discussed a bit in the Q&A period)

- Sharing your work with the community even though you are not sure about what you are doing

- The good kind of stress

- Demos – Three more complete post=processing demos of various lighting conditions and issues.

- Q&A – What is the purpose of Lightroom? How do you do backups? How do you create a collection? Color correction after Photomatix? How do you pay for travel?

Lesson 9 Topics Discussed:

- Breakdown of the forest photo

- Correcting the Louvre photo

- How to find new thoughts by examining and studying other photos.

- Demos – Three new photos that show advanced techniques.

- Q&A – Lightroom and Bridge… He uses a LOT of keywords – does he just create those on the fly or use some other technique? Was the shuttle picture an HDR or single picture? Why doesn’t Trey just use the Dodge tool to lighten it up rather than mask in another scene? What camera does Trey recommend nikon D3X or D3S? Please keep in mind this is for an all around photographer and not just landscape, but also for stuff like weddings too? why does Trey use Bridge as part of his processing regime?

When you “combine” the layers, is it the same as to “flatten” the image? Why would noise reduction help hand holding, rather than “align images”? Why doesn’t he simply drag the photos into Photomatix? How many catalogues does Trey use in Lightroom? Does he create a new catalogue for each trip or location?

Images Processed During Class

Below represents a small sampling of all the images that were processed during the class to give you an idea of the range.