{"id":2523,"date":"2015-02-13T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-02-13\/2523"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:09:36","slug":"fantastic-video-for-photographers-get-inspired-from-stu-maschwitzs-artisticlightroom-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-02-13\/2523","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Video for Photographers: Get Inspired From Stu Maschwitz’s Artistic\/Lightroom Agility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/a>\nScreen capture from the video, mid-crop\n<\/div>\n\n

This<\/a> is a fantastic<\/span> video for photographers.\n(Note: I couldn't<\/span> get the original Adobe Connect version<\/a> to work in Firefox; it worked for me in Safari. In any case, there's now a YouTube version<\/a> for easy viewing, though the video quality doesn't seem as good as the Adobe Connect original.)<\/small><\/p>\n\n

In the video, visual artist Stu Maschwitz<\/a>\nsits down to a blacked<\/span>-out Lightroom catalog loaded with a couple<\/span> dozen\nphotos submitted by strangers, and one by one he unveils and processes them\nas the whim strikes him, providing a running<\/span> commentary about his artistic\nreasons for doing things, or technical comments about how to achieve in\nLightroom whatever look he's going for.<\/p>\n\n

There are some amazing transformations, but whether a particular<\/span> result\nis or isn't your cup of tea is not the point. The point<\/span> is to see that\namazing transformations can be made so easily, and sometimes so subtly. The running<\/span> commentary on the hows and whys provide ample little seeds that may\ngerminate ideas when processing your own photos.<\/p>\n\n

Foremost this video is about artistic interpretation. Secondly it's about Lightroom,\nbecause all the “<\/span>hows”<\/span> are shown in terms of Lightroom. But let me<\/span> be clear, it's not an instructional video. It's not a<\/span> “<\/span>how-to”<\/span>\nvideo, and it's not a demonstration<\/span> of the “<\/span>right way”<\/span> to process photos.\n(The only time “<\/span>right way”<\/span> comes into photo processing is in journalism,\nwhere it's a synonym<\/span> for “<\/span>nothing”<\/span>.)<\/p>\n\n

It's just Stu looking at a stranger's photo and instantly deciding what\nthat photo's “<\/span>story”<\/span> is to him, and then proceeding to crop and adjust the\nphoto so that as far as he's concerned, it better tells that story.<\/p>\n\n

I found it highly entertaining, and I came<\/span> away both with new artistic\ntechniques and new Lightroom techniques.<\/p>\n\n

If you're a photographer, I highly recommend it whether you use Lightroom or not.<\/p>\n\n

Update: Photo-Development Challenge!<\/span> \nTry your hand at developing a few of my raw images, and compare your results with others for yet more ideas and inspiration.\nSee here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a fantastic video for photographers. (Note: I couldn't get the original Adobe Connect version to work in Firefox; it worked for me in Safari. In any case, there's now a YouTube version for easy viewing, though the video quality doesn't seem as good as the Adobe Connect original.)<\/p>

In the video, visual artist Stu Maschwitz sits down to a blacked-out Lightroom catalog loaded with a couple dozen photos submitted by strangers, and one by one he unveils and processes them as the whim strikes him, providing a running commentary about his artistic reasons for doing things, or technical [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}