I needed a printed portfolio. It was my first time attending the PhotoPlus conference in New York City this year, and it was my first time going through an intense round of portfolio reviews. After reading all the popular blogs, I opted for the Portfolio Presentation Case from Pina Zangaro, but the very thing that brought me to this case-style portfolio is going to drive me away to a more triditional book-style portfolio.
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I spent a few hours on the plane ride to Oregon last week hanging out with Clint Davis. Not really, but he did keep me company while I watched his Mastering Compositing DVD produced by Slickforce Studio.
I’m not huge fan of compositing images, mainly because I don’t like spending that much time behind a computer. I would rather be building sets, shooting and chatting with people. I get bored quickly when I’m editing pictures, even if I am listening to music. My goal has always been to get things right at the time of exposure and not later in Photoshop. Sometimes though, that skill is necessary and when it is I’ll be prepared.
Clint’s DVD isn’t about correcting things in Photoshop that you messed up during the shoot and just to be clear, it’s not a lighting or portrait DVD either. It’s a Photoshop tutorial about compositing images. In this DVD Clint takes the images from open to close. He goes all the way from how to cut something out of a background to creating a movie poster using multiple images.
The first thing I noticed about his tutorial was
