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 02/24/2006 02:48:41 PM · #1


I learned this technique after searching a month on how it works. It is a combination of photography and painting. It looks 10 times better on canvas.

I've been a member here for almost 2 years now and I think I'm ready to go pro with a photography studio in Kansas City. This technique will be my Kicker. Please tell me if you think I'm ready, and how much I should charge. Will you also look at my newly refurnished website www.lokiscreativedge.com and tell me how I can approve it?

Thank You,
Loki

02/24/2006 03:40:18 PM · #2
Bueller...Bueller...
 02/24/2006 04:26:44 PM · #3
Hi Jeff, I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 and can't get the galleries to load. Love the pics and yes, they do look professional although too smooth (NI?) to me.

As for being ready, photographically I'm sure you are but if you've not worked out prices yet then imho your not ready business wise - best of luck :)
 02/24/2006 04:31:17 PM · #4
Originally posted by Loki:
I learned this technique after searching a month on how it works. It is a combination of photography and painting. It looks 10 times better on canvas.

I'm guessing the girls look 10 times better in person than on canvas. LOL!
 02/24/2006 04:36:06 PM · #5
Checked out your website...

I think you need to put more example photographs on there that you can click on and view at a bigger size. After all....that is the most important thingl your photography. So I think it should be the main point of your website.

As for the photos you do have, they look stunning...

Oh, and are you coming to the get together in KC in March?
 02/24/2006 05:04:23 PM · #6
Cool - what's the technique? :)

02/24/2006 05:13:57 PM · #7
Teach us... and yeah, I'm a KCEr here.... the prices here are not terribly high so get your business plan ready. I mainly do freelance and on-location only. (avoids the studio thing) but if you must do studio work, photographix in the northland lets you rent their studio for like 30 bucks an hour. So.... make sure you'll make the money it will cost you to have a place of business.
02/24/2006 05:44:14 PM · #8
I get out of the military on March 1st (Wednesday), and I'll be back in Kansas City by March 3rd (Friday). If I can, I'd really like to go on the shoot. I'll bring my wife for a model (She's the one in the pictures).

Under prints on my website .www.lokiscreativedge.com there is a pulldown menu. That is where I will be putting all of my clients portraits. After I give them the password, they can buy more pictures there, or direct family there.

About the gallery, they aren't clickable links yet, but I'm getting there. I'm trying to find a Javascript that will let the viewer roll their mouse over a thumbnail at the bottom, and a larger picture will popup.

The technique is simple to do, but hard to master. The computer doesn't do the picture too much justice.

Message edited by author 2006-02-25 09:58:19.
 02/24/2006 05:46:54 PM · #9
cool idea to get out there, thanks for sharing it! (another thing to keep me busy). What have you found to be the best "coloration" effect. Do you paint or desaturate? AND... where are you looking to plop in KC?>
 02/24/2006 06:13:05 PM · #10
I will be moving to Kansas City, MO. I am going to UMKC this fall for Studio Art. I have the experience, now I need the Degree. My family is from Wyandotte in Kansas City, KS.

I have never painted a color in, I always desaturate the stuff around it. Three techniques I use for colorization are:

1. Make a second layer, Desaturate it, then erase the part you want in color. After you do this, you can change the color of the part you kept in color by going to the Hue/Saturation menu and changing the hue. Or give it that old time look by taking the saturation down a little.

2. Go into the Hue/Saturation menu, Select all the colors you want b/w from the pulldown menu, take the saturation for those colors all the way down. (you have to have a specific color you want colorized for this to work)

3. Use your marque tool and slowly go around the part you want color, after you select it, use the feather tool under selection and add about a 2px-5px feather, select inverse under selection, then hit desaturate.
 03/24/2006 02:58:57 PM · #11
good luck jeff.

Message edited by author 2006-03-24 14:59:12.
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