Colour grading for dramatic portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2020
- In this session, portrait photographer Ivan Weiss walks you through a typical workflow for colour grading and adding texture to enhance a dramatic portrait using Affinity Photo.
Ivan also gives you access to a custom LUT and two custom colour and texture overlays that he uses in his session (for personal use only). These are available at: affin.co/LD2020IvanWeiss
As well as shooting full-time for private and corporate clients, Ivan teaches photography and mentors photographers looking to improve their work, their business and their understanding of portraiture. You can see his work on his website ivanweiss.london and his Instagram feed / ivanweiss.london
Fantastic tutorial! Loved the advice about resting your eyes and looking at the image from a different perspective while editing.
Eye health is important!
I really liked how you walked the viewer through each step explaining your process, as well as the motivations for each adjustment. Very informative!
There's more: ua-cam.com/video/FBEwVixkFXE/v-deo.html
Thank you for the deep insight. Your calm and precise way to show what is your aim and how to achieve this is awesome!
Glad it was helpful!
Gorgeous work. Subtle yet VERY effective!
This video is first class, Ivan. The subtleties of each stage work together for the overall effect. Quite inspiring and motivational! Thanks for sharing the LUT and overlays too!
Glad you found it useful!
I've been looking for someone who does colour grading using Affinity Photo for so long now, I'm so glad I found your channel! Thank you!
Happy to help, Alyssa!
Thank you for sharing your philosophy and style. The video was very informative. I've always looked at photography as a medium to create art and what you just showed us is how to create art from photography. You're a great inspiration.
Thanks, Gavett. That's very kind of you. Glad you found it useful. Keep creating!
Hello from Ecuador. Thank you for making your art accessible all over the world! Excellent video!
Thank you for the appreciation.
This is absolutely spectacular! Thank you so much for sharing your workflow and techniques. I've often wondered how you achieved these results and this feels as though we have been given the secret sauce! Absolutely masterful!
No secrets here!
Excellent and very useful tutorial, thank you. I love this style of colour grading and think your portraits are outstanding!
Thank you!
Wow. Well this is a whole new world!
Your work is amazing and so are you!
Amazing tutorial! Thanks for sharing this!!!
Love your work!
Thank you Ivan for sharing the magic with us! Now I'm curious how to create a film grain overlay!
There are 3 options: 1 Use the Add Noise filter. 2 Search online for a scan of genuine film grain (you will likely have to pay for this) 3 If you have access to the necessary equipment, use your favourite film stock to create an image that is exactly 50% grey and then scan it.
I just found your channel and Wow! Very good, very nice!
That is beautiful and with Affinity 👍
really enjoyed this. learn a couple of things. great job
"Pop" is the favorite word of photographers on social media.
If we were good with words we probably wouldn't be making pictures
@@IvanWeiss-london Touché. And if I were a good photographer, I wouldn't be a keyboard warrior.
@@Daniel_Ilyich 🤣
Oh...so talented💕
This is fantastic Ivan! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it, Mark!
@@IvanWeiss-london All of your content is top notch, more please!
Great Tutorial Ivan! Hope all is well! Really enjoyed your insight and thought process on your colour grading. BTW- Dan Winters is awesome! Be well and keep up the great work!
Thanks, Ted. Be sure to check out the others in this series over on the Affinity channel - ua-cam.com/channels/AYTwFk4xCES4-AaYus9yZA.html
Nice Ivan!! These portraits are 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you 🙌Glad you like them. You can see more on my Instagram page: instagram.com/ivanweiss.london/
Great work! Thank you very much 😎
It's great. thanks for sharing.
Ivan, this is phenomenal. Finally, a chance to see how a real artist edits an image. I really like your WinterGreen Lut. Can you do a video where you explain your approach to working with colors? For example, how to harmonize colors or how to come up with color themes?
I don't take a scientific approach to colour. I just go with what looks and feels right to me at the time. But that is based on spending a lot of time observing light and colour in the real world. Possibly when other people are expecting me to be paying attention to other things 🤷♂
great next level stuff
Great work Ivan, the colour grading reminds me of an old Kodak neg film I used in the 80's. I used to shoot portraits on 4x5 sheet film and light them in a similar manner to what you are using. As soon as I saw your image I was suddenly reminded of using that old Cambo.
Do you still have it?
@@IvanWeiss-london I sold it about ten years ago. As soon as the guy collected it I wished I hadn't sold it but I hadn't used for at least three years before then so when I got a half decent offer it had to go.
@@paulsaxby7579 Sounds like you really miss it.
@@IvanWeiss-london I'll probably get another one at sometime, if the media is still available..
Thank you so much!! Amazing video
Glad you liked it. More coming soon. Follow my Instagram for announcements - @ivanweiss.london
Great work and really well explained, thanks. Just need a cigar to complete your Castro look 🤪 Thank you also for providing the assets for LUT and colour overlays that is great 😀👍
Close, but no cigar?
Brilliant !!!
thank you so much !
Can't say how amazing this is. I've always wanted to know how to get that dramatic painter type look and you nailed it. Adding this tool to my tool belt.
You're awesome.
Great vid. :)
If Affinity Photo gets something like PS's newish Subject, Sky, and Object selection tools...I'd switch to Affinity in a heartbeat. For me the AI selection tools just make my workflow much quicker. Also, there are some great plugins for PS that aren't available with AF. This is also, not to mention, the fantastic masking tools in LR.
Ty so much for lesson ,lut and everything. Is so much for a nub like me who want lern 😇😅
Hi Ivan- great stuff you do! What kinda lighting did you do for this shot? Thanks
Thanks, Zarco. I think it's mentioned in the video - 70cm beauty dish + ringflash.
@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you for answering, Ivan👍
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this, I love this style of portraiture they really rock, even if you look like Fidel Castro’s Double, 😃👍
Thanks. I wouldn't normally shoot self portraits but this was produced during lockdown so I had no choice.
At the end he said EASY!!! 😵
what makes it look so much like an oil painting?
I'm never sure how to answer that one. Some paintings look like photographs, some photographs look like paintings. Maybe try to say a bit more about which specific characteristics remind you of an oil painting. Is it the pose? The light and contrast? The colours? The depth of the shadows?
I would like you switch on and off the adjustments you make, as I cannot see much diffence when you make them.
That's a limitation of making a 1080 video of a 5k photo. I'll bear it in mind next time but I suggest trying out the techniques to see how they work and, more importantly, whether they work for you and what you want to create.
@@IvanWeiss-london That is very kind of you.
I am starting to notice that when real pros-like yourself-show their workflow, it’s not quite a clearly-defined linear process. It’s much more nuanced. I like to write down the steps of a workflow and found it difficult to do for this tutorial. I don’t think that is a negative, it just shows that you are presenting at a more advanced level. Instead of jotting down the steps, I plan to watch it again and follow along with a photo of my own. I think that will work better because it’s not so much about a series of clearly defined steps; it’s knowing where you want to go with the photo and using any or all tools that can help you get there.
That's a very good point, Greg. The final image is the thing and it really doesn't matter what steps you take to get there. The aim is to be able to identify what you like and don't like about the image and then to have the techniques and tools to hand to bring your vision to reality.
@@IvanWeiss-london Well I just finished going through the steps of your tutorial with a portrait shot I took while at a birthday party this week and the results are amazing. I learned so much following along with you step by step. Thanks again for sharing your expertise.
The photo reminds me of Fidel Castro. A red star on your jacket and a cigar in your hand would be perfect.
I'm sorry
But with all these colour grading tutotials
I'd like you to show the original photo, and tell us what you think is wnorg with it, and what you want to achieve, so that we can see your progress and how you do it.
You can see the original photo at 01:44. It's not that there is anything wrong with it. I'm just sharing some techniques that I use to manipulate colour and contrast in order to make things that look pleasing to me.
Fidel Castro vibes!
Siempre!
Fidel Castro did it first!
And probably a lot better