The photography website CLH just published my first tutorial (written in Spanish language) on how to create retro effects on digital images.
It is a very easy to follow tutorial and all you need is about 10 minutes to turn a “normal” picture into something more retro and “analog”.
Take a look at the tutorial HERE and learn how to create a yellowish vintage effect like the on the image below:
Some weeks ago I started working for the online photography site QUESABESDE. It is one of the top notch, most respected and most visited sites worldwide about photography in Spanish language, so it is pretty important to work with these guys.
Today they published my first written text. It is an interview I conducted with photographer Ricky Dávila and it was very interesting to talk to him. The text is in Spanish and you should read what this guy has to say if you understand the language. You will be surprised, believe me.
Hopefully, I will keep publishing articles on this site and I hope readers really enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
You can take a look at the interview here or clicking on the image below.
Today is my first day working for the photography blog “Cómo la hice“. I’m the new coordinator and I’m also an editor for the blog. That means I select and decide what images get published on the site.
This blog is about photography and about the photographers explaining how they take their pictures. It is a cool place to see some nice images and learn some new techniques and tricks from the photographers themselves. You shouldn’t miss it.
Today’s article features a picture I really wanted to publish by Mikko Lagerstedt. This young photographer from Finland is able to capture stunning and weird beauty in such desolated and minimalistic places that sometimes you can’t avoid wondering whether it is real or not what you’re seeing.
We publish at least a picture a day in “Cómo la hice”. Be sure to come often to see some cool and interesting shots along with some interesting explanations by the authors. And if you’re a photographer yourself and you think you should be published in our blog, do not hesitate to send us your images along with your text.
Although the blog is in Spanish language, you can send your text in English and we will translate them to Spanish. No problem about that.
I went to a bookstore last saturday and I headed to the photography section. I always do the same. I always visit bookstores because I love to be there, surrounded by books. Just stay there. I don’t even have to buy anything to be happy and I wasn’t planning on buying a thing the other day.
But then, then I saw this small but thick book called The Great Life Photographers (Life Los Grandes Fotógrafos, in Spanish) and I grabbed it. It wasn’t really expensive, 25 euros. Photography books tend to be a bit expensive, you know it. So it took me about 3 second to decide whether I was buying the book or not.
To tell you the truth, I still don’t know whether the book is good or a piece of crap. I’m sure it’s awesome, but I will not know until I unwrap it. Sounds crazy, I know, but I never unwrap a new book until I’m 100% sure that I will have enough time to read it or watch carefully. The thing is that I enjoy watching and reading photography books very much and I never unwrap a book just to take a look and leave it on the shelf for weeks or months until I pick it up again.
That translates into having lots of unwrapped photography books on the shelf but also lots of brand new great books like William Klein’s Retrospective, a couple of Robert Capa’s books, War is Personal by Eugene Richards and The Americans by Robert Frank, among many others. I’m sure I will soon find the right time to read all these wonderful books.
Images used on this post are copyright of Calvin Dexter. Ask me first if you want to use them in any way.
Some months ago I did a shooting with a model from Belgium in this lovely place that is just 10 minutes from my house. There is a wonderful waterfall and a small lake and it is a really nice scenario to do a fashion shooting.
So, we did indeed a fashion shooting there. It was an editorial for a swimsuit magazine from Belgium. It was great, even though we had some rain at the end of the shooting. Here’s a sample photo of that day.
Anyway, these last days it’s been pretty cold in my town so we went to this waterfall place again, my girlfriend and I, just to see how were things. And everything was absolutely frozen. To be sincere, I prefer to shoot in the summer…
Images on this post are copyright of Calvin Dexter. Use them without asking me first and I will kick your ass.
I only use prime lenses because I actually own only prime lenses. But yesterday a friend of mine let me play with his Canon EF 24-70mm and I used it with my 5D Mark II. It was a lot of fun and I also realized how much I miss working at 24mm. The widest lens I have right now is a 35mm.
We went into the woods and to a lake and we spent the whole morning visiting, taking pictures and filming (my friend brought his 60D and recorded some video) on different locations. We even visited and old dam that I will use in my next shooting ’cause the place was stunning.
I took some analog pictures also but until I develop them…
A few weeks ago I decided that Saturdays would be the day to learn something new. I don’t have much free time during the week, but I try to have a couple or more hours on Saturdays available to learn from others and follow some tutorials that I find on the Internet.
Today I learned how to integrate a 3D render of a cute and small robot into a macro photography using Photoshop. It was a lot of fun. The tutorial teaches you how to blend the two main pieces together using displacement filters, layer masks, custom brushes and lots, lots, lots of layers.
When I finished with the tutorial (about 2-3 hours of work) I couldn’t stop tweaking the image so I added some film, grain and color leaks that I think give even a more realistic and great look to the image.
Here’s the picture I got today. Hope you like it.
The tutorial I followed is from the PSDTuts site. If you want to take a look at it, here’s the link. You will find this tutorial and lots others along with great articles and all kinds of cool tips about Photoshop. Great place to learn.
