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This is another of Rice and Zen tutorial coming to you from Kyoto, Japan to show you one way to deal with photos of figures in front of windows by taking exposure bracketed shots and then blending those exposures using a layer mask in Photoshop. This can be preferable to using a flash because of the depth and colour range it offers, whereas flashes tend to flatten and over-brighten an image, especially when they reflect off of the bride’s foundation.
If you have any specific photography questions please get in touch and let me know what you’d like me to cover. In the meantime you can take a look at my photoblog here:
http://www.ofriceandzen.org
or my online hub here:
http://www.andyheather.com
The music was provided by 1GK, who can be found here:
http://www.andyheather.com/1gk
If you find this video useful or interesting, please feel free to Tweet it and share it with your shutter-happy friends. Thanks for watching, see you next time!
This is another of Rice and Zen tutorial coming to you from Kyoto, Japan to show you one way to deal with photos of figures in front of windows by taking exposure bracketed shots and then blending those exposures using a layer mask in Photoshop.
If you have any specific photography questions please get in touch and let me know what you’d like me to cover. In the meantime you can take a look at my photoblog here:
http://www.ofriceandzen.org
or my online hub here:
http://www.andyheather.com
The music was provided by 1GK, who can be found here:
http://www.andyheather.com/1gk
If you find this video useful or interesting, please feel free to Tweet it and share it with your shutter-happy friends. Thanks for watching, see you next time!
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Of Rice and Zen is a multimediography studio based in Kyoto, Japan. In this tutorial, one of a planned series, I hope to answer some of the many questions I’ve been asked about how to prepare photographs for sale on microstock photography agencies like iStock, Big Stock and Shutterstock.
In this video I’ll be talking about how I treated a model’s skin to maximize her beauty without sacrificing detail or creating an unrealistic image.
I hope you find it useful. If there’s anything specific you’d like me to address or answer please get in touch and I’ll do my best. Thanks for watching.
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A fish photographed at the Art Aquarium installation in the Daimaru department store in Kyoto in 2010.
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Katsu jumps behind the kit mid-rehearsal for the band he masterminded, 1GK. Katsu is a breakdancer, DJ, rapper, producer, vocalist and more. The tattoos on each of his arms represent his mother and father’s family crests.
To hear some of his music check out http://www.andyheather.com/2010/06/introducing-1gk
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The Heian Jingū was built in 1895 for the 1,100th anniversary of the establishment of Heiankyō (the old name of Kyoto). The shrine is dedicated to Emperor Kanmu and Emperor Kōmei. The former moved the capital to Heiankyō, and the latter was the last before Emperor Meiji, who moved the capital to Tokyo.
The Heian Jingū hosts the Jidai Matsuri, one of the three most important festivals of Kyoto. The procession of this festival begins at the old Imperial palace, and includes carrying the mikoshi(portable shrines) of Emperors Kanmu and Kōmei to the Heian Jingū.
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Otenmon is a majestic and colorful building which has reproduced Daidairi, a part of the imperial palace that once stood in Heian-kyo in Emperor Kanmu’s time; it is reduced to about two-thirds in scale but it is still vast. Daidairi was the center of government in the Heian era. In Heian-kyo, the nobles named the gates which they governed after themselves. Otenmon was governed by an official named Otomo, and “mon” means gate, so at first it was called Otomomon. Long afterward, people came to call this building Otenmon. When public officials visited the Imperial Court, they led their men and took up their positions beside the right and left hallways of the gate. In 866, there was a fire in Otenmon and it burned down. This incident, called “The Affair of Otenmon”, involved arson and was connected to a government plot. A man named Fujiwara took the helm of government after he banished Otomo from politics for his arson. Otenmon was reconstructed in 871, but when the Onin Rebellion broke out in 1467, Kyoto was drawn into a vortex of war, and Otenmon disappeared. The current Otenmon appeared four centuries later.
Learning About Kyoto
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