by Dennis | Jan 21, 2011 | Case Studies
The other day I was browsing through the APANet discussion list and came across a question from a photographer about banding issues they were seeing in the skies of some images. After responding there I thought this would be a great topic for a Blog post so here we...
by Dennis | Oct 7, 2010 | Case Studies
One of the more common techniques retouchers use is named for an old darkroom technique, Burning and Dodging. Back then we’d use our hands or some other device to either expose a part of an image longer (Burning) or to keep the light out of an area on the image...
by Dennis | Sep 16, 2010 | Case Studies
Last month I worked with the good folks at Arsonal, www.arsonalla.com, to create the final artwork promoting Bravo’s new cooking show, “Top Chef Just Desserts”. In addition to the usual magazine ads this campaign entailed a tie-in with the current...
by Dennis | Jul 20, 2010 | Case Studies
I became a fan of D.A. Wagner’s work when I came across his website last year. Balancing deliberation and spontaneity with great concepts D.A. creates some fantastic still life images of food. To see for yourself just take a quick visit to his website here:...
by Dennis | Jul 16, 2010 | Case Studies
In reading various blogs and articles by and about retouchers I see lots of folks focus on the dramatic before/afters as proof of a particular retoucher’s skill.Sure, that can be pretty impressive. But on some level that seems like we’re focusing on the...
by Dennis | Jun 24, 2010 | Case Studies
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Brad Johnson and all the great folks at Arsonal Design in Los Angeles creating images for the ad campaign promoting TV Land’s latest new show “Hot In Cleveland.” With three women featuring long, wind-blown...
by Dennis | Jun 18, 2010 | Case Studies
Next week the ‘other Avatar’ movie, “The Last Airbender”, is due out hoping for a big debut weekend. Here in Los Angeles one of the local ad agencies I work with, BLT & Associates (www.bltomato.com), did a great job with the print campaign...
by Dennis | Apr 2, 2010 | Case Studies
A recent discussion on ASMP’s email list touched on creating realistic shadows so I thought I’d post a quick tip here describing one of my favorite ways of creating realistic shadows when creating composited images in Photoshop.The most important things to...
by Dennis | Mar 6, 2010 | Case Studies
Here’s a recent image I worked on with the good folks at BLT & Associates. This version is a poster sized crop of the overall image which was built to also accomodate billboards as well.Just to give you an idea of the work that went into this image...
by Dennis | Feb 15, 2010 | Case Studies
As a digital artist/retoucher I love collaborating with photographers producing beautiful images like this one from Jeremy Cowart. From the dramatic backlighting he used to the inviting look in her eyes Jeremy created a great shot and it was a pleasure to work with...
