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White Crane - Shoot BTS

Here's a super rough assemblage of BTS clips from a little shoot I did involving some big paper cranes and feather hair. Always fun to try and come up with visually impactful ideas on a $20 budget. Sorry its so low quality/short but the shoot itself was kind of thrown together so a big video wasn't really on my mind.

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New Video, Retouch Time Lapse

      Getting back into making some videos after saying I would and then kind of forgetting about it for months.. Here is a quickie of me retouching a simple portrait, sped up to about 10x real time. I don't give detailed descriptions of the process but there are little notes during various parts of the video that mention kind of what is going on. Hopefully I'll stay motivated and come up with some more cool tutorial videos soon. 

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Video: Retouching Time Lapse

     Here is a simple new video I've recorded that showroom basic portrait retouching. Essentially just a recording of my screen while I work in Photoshop played back at 500% speed, you can get an idea of what it looks like when I'm retouching skin and color. 

     I'm still sorting what kinds of things I want to do detailed tutorials on but I thought it might be cool to see something like this. 

     As I note in the description on Youtube, the "final" image isn't really done but it is probably 85 or 90% done. I'd probably do a bit more detail work and of course some sharpening. 

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