Senior Ideas by John Hartman

What You Get

Your photography and your post-production technique will be more creative.

Here's what Senior Ideas 1 & 2 contain:

• Over 550 different senior portraits featured on two electronic books containing a whopping 1673 pages of easy-to-use information. Photos are shown as shot and then at various stages of production, including retouching, color adjustments and filter enhancements.

• Both books are in hi-res PDF and QuickTime format, and the pages are hyperlinked for easy navigation to the various sections.

• Topics include:
IMAGE CAPTURE—discussion of cameras and lenses used, efficient studio lighting, (including a homemade ringlight that seniors just love), a system of dozens of cheap and replaceable backgrounds, outdoor flash lighting with high speed sync.

POST-PRODUCTION—discussion of current computer hardware, RAW converters, easy skin retouching and eye enhancement, filter effects and workflow steps for maximum efficiency.

IMAGES—550 in all, Volume #2 is categorized by Studio, Activities, Downtown, Outdoors/Park, Infrared and Tilt-shift styles

• Video demonstrations and tutorials. Thirteen professionally produced and narrated high-resolution videos show various step-by-step production processes as well as set-ups showing easy lighting and background systems. (Videos are 1024x768 on Senior Ideas 1, and 1440x1050 on Senior Ideas 2).

• 85 new image overlay files that can be used for your seniors or any other portraits. These overlays create an entirely new dimension to any work that gives your images a look that stands way above your competition. A detailed video tutorial shows how to use these overlays for maximum variety with the least effort possible.These new looks could easily pay for the entire learning kit on your very first sale!

• Three action sets designed to minimize your Photoshop time. Two sets have automated some of the more dramatic looks from Nik Software's Color Efex Pro 3 and Silver Efex Pro filter plug-ins. If you have these tools, the actions included with Senior Ideas will provide excellent (and user-modifyable) effects simply by playing a an action instead of having to enter the plug-in each time.

• Also included is a printed Senior Ideas book containing 200 finished senior portrait images, to be used as a reference guide in your camera room or on location (the small 6x6 size fits easily into your camera bag). This book contains only photos, and no text, so you can use it to solicit ideas from your seniors during your shoots. This book will help keep your work fresh when you mine it for posing, lighting and location ideas right while you shoot!

200-page idea book can be used as a reference guide right during your session. You'll never run out of posing, lighting and background ideas again. Get out of your rut with Senior Ideas!

 

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First photo with no enhancements.	Click to next page to see retouched and color-corrected version.
Click again for overlay showing what was done.	Many images show additional versions.
Version changes are also noted.