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Source files for this image are available so you can follow along with the tutorial if you wish. Links to the RAW source files are on the left at the bottom of the chapters list. The Main RAW image is the one I do almost all the editing on. The second RAW image is the one I took a part of to combine into the main image.
This image was taken while my wife and I visited friends in Swindon. This small fairground was so beautifully maintained and painted that it was a joy to photograph, especially because I was using my new camera - a Canon 5D with the 17-40 f/4.0L lens. I was able to go very wide indeed and shot a collection of 13 images. You can see the collection on flickr.
In this tutorial I spend quite a lot of time talking about approaching photography with a real intent and direction. I also talk about collections and consistancy. And in the image editing and selection I talk about reducing and simplifying in order to provide a concept and a focus for your images.
There are a couple of new techniques here. Chapter 1 covers a lot of discussion of collections, selection and scoring as well as RAW extraction. In chapter 2 I combine 2 images together by using the head from one shot on the body from another. I also cover a technique for dimming down strong highlights in order to move tones closer together in brightly lit images. I finish by adding a strong brightening and contrast curve. Chapter 3 finishes the tutorial by addressing some of the images faults in light and dark areas and adds dodging/burning and a vignette to help focus the viewer's attention.
As usual I talk pretty fast in order to keep file sizes down and I'm settling at last on MOV files encoded using H264. This seems to be something that plays well on MacOS, Windows and Linux given the right players - Quicktime is all you need.
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