![]() ![]() I started with the DeNoise preset RAW Moderate (I’m mostly using RAW Light and RAW Moderate in my images, unless the amount of noise is very high, in which case I may use RAW Strong or RAW Stronger). Don’t forget to use it.Īnother thing to keep in mind is to always duplicate your layer when you open the image in a plugin so the result can be saved in a new layer. ![]() You will find this very useful especially when working with plugins you are not very familiar with. Every function of the program is explained in detail in a pop-up text that appears if you hover over the respective slider in the plugin interface. Let me first give you a very good tip about all the Topaz plugins. One of the Topaz plugins I’m using firstly in an image, a tool I’m using in all my images to remove the noise, is Topaz DeNoise and you can see below my settings in the image Fluid Time II. This is the color RAW file of the image after having made a few adjustments to it in Lightroom. There are a few other plugins I’m regularly using in my processing, including DeNoise, Clarity, Detail and ReMask.īut let’s see my Photography Drawing workflow step by step now. The software I use most of all in processing my black and white images through the method of Photography Drawing are Photoshop, Lightroom, and the Topaz Plugins, especially Topaz B&W Effects. I have chosen 2 objects that are somehow similar as shape so the parallelism can be more easily noticed. Here is an example of how I draw an architectural object using black pencil (as an architect, I used to make a lot of drawings like this one in the past and I’m still using drawing in my work) vs how I process an image of an architectural object, following the same principles of using light and shadow and applying them on my object by means of either a pencil, or a processing software. You can read there many more details about this method and how to apply it, plus a general extensive insight into B&W photography, long exposure, architectural photography, explained from a theoretic and a practical/processing point of view done by me and my co-author. I am dedicating an entire chapter to Photography Drawing (principles, rules and processing steps) in the 424 pages book From Basics to Fine Art – B&W Photography, written with co-author Joel Tjintjelaar, award-winning B&W fine art photographer. The method of Photography Drawing is related to how to shape the objects by using light as a tool, and the concept I developed is about how to process and render an image the same way you would draw it, using the same principles of shaping the light as in classical and architectural drawing, only this time putting them in practice by using different tools than in drawing: processing software instead of paper and black pencil. ![]() The innovation of this method is that I am incorporating in the processing workflow the basic rules and principles used in the case of classical and architectural drawing in black pencil, principles that can stand also for other kinds of drawing and even for other visual arts and that I adapted here to photography, especially to black and white architectural photography. Photography Drawing is a personal processing method that I developed and that allows me to express my vision in the most creative, correct and impressive way. The image was shot with 8.5 degrees tilt at 45 degrees rotation of the lens, so to create the characteristic tilt-shift blur on specific portions of the image (upper and lower side of the image, diagonally disposed), and it was realized with the technique of long exposure (121 seconds exposure). To create the long exposure effect I used two stacked ND filters – 10+3 stops in total, the Formatt-Hitech ProStop IRND Joel Tjintjelaar Signature Edition.įirst of all let me explain what is Photography Drawing. The image I will demonstrate my workflow on is Fluid Time II, from the series Fluid Time which is an image of the Prudence Plaza building, shot in Chicago using a Canon 5D Mark III camera and a Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II tilt-shift lens. In this tutorial I will make a demonstration of how I use the Topaz plugins in my Photography Drawing™ (PhtD – in short) workflow and what I consider as the best plugins and features to use when processing a B&W image, a long exposure architectural photograph in my case, so you can get the results I’m getting in my work and that brought me numerous awards and distinctions. ![]()
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