Another attempt at That Pro Look

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Originally Posted by Colin Southern

Hi Vladimir,

I thought your boarder in the above example was 100% perfect -- no issues with over-bright areas what-so-ever. In fact, if you'd be so kind as to tell me how you do them I'd love to copy it!

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It's Picasa! :eek:

Their latest versions have this "edit", which is SO easy to apply! They give you two sliders for the inner width and outer width, and two eye droplets - for the colors. It's called "Museum Matte" if I remember correctly. I use it after I export jpeg for the web - the very last step.

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Originally Posted by speedneeder

Vladimir, looks great to me. I agree with Colin on the lighting, this is a very nice light. I can't imagine this setup would work with glamour shot lighting :)

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I got this lighting setup because of you, mister! :eek: You probably don't know this, but it's the shot of your son here, that made me go get a softbox and reflectors. That's when I realized I had to have those things. :D
And that's all it is: a softbox (26x32 - I think. Forgot exact size already) on the left at 45 degrees, and a white reflector on the right, a black blanket as a background and a black foam display board on the floor. Inside the softbox - one flash Sunpak-383 at 1/2 power (so it recycles faster).

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Originally Posted by jcuknz

... beautiful dog ... and he knows he is special!

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...Wanted to address this, but almost forgot...

No, he doesn't. I am glad I managed to make it look like he does, but in reality - this guy has 0% self-respect, 100% love for his humans, full tolerance for all other humans (children included) and almost no interest in other dogs.

Somebody told me back when he was a little puppy - "English Springers have hearts of gold". After 4+ years living with this guy - I agree completely.