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What surprised me the most was
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Trey's teaching
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methodology in terms of
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the exploration. It's not about, "Do step one, step two, step three; now look at the result."
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It's about experimentation.
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Hello. I'm Trey Ratcliff.
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Here at Stuck in Customs we get thousands of requests from people all around
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the world who want to take better photos, whether they're landscape photos
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travel photos.
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Maybe you're in these amazing places, and you
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take photos, and they come out just kind of "blah," and you want them to be more magical and more interesting.
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Well, this is the tutorial for you.
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Basically we went all around New Zealand, and I set up in many different kinds of
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situations - everything from sunrise, to the middle of the day, to sunset.
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And we show you how to set up your camera.
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We show you how
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to compose different kinds of shots,
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and then later
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we get on the computer, and in post-processing
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you'll also see how I spend time massaging the shot
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to make sure that I get the right light levels,
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that it has the right feel in the end.
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And as I go through the steps
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you'll get to know these tools very well.
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We have many tutorials for various levels, whether you're a beginner or quite advanced.
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We do start out very slow, and the first tutorial kind of
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goes in slow-motion,
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where I show you all the basic tools that you need to process a photo and make it look magical.
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And I make sure that I take time on each of the sliders
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so you understand where to click and what to do.
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Then we jump into more intermediate and advanced techniques.
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Maybe you're going to go in this direction someday.
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I think you'll really surprise yourself with how easy this is, once I show you how these tools work.
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It'll basically allow you to take a photo which is kind of "blah" and make it really magical,
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so that when you share it online you'll impress your friends and your family, whether you're sharing it on Google+, Facebook, or wherever.
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Most importantly I think you'll really impress yourself with how easy this is
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and how this adds a really nice layer of art and photography into your life.
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This is my second workshop of Trey's.
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In this experience
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I learned an awful lot
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in post-processing. It was a great time,
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a great learning experience.
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I really wanted to improve on my landscape photography.
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That's always been a weakness. I've learned so much.
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It's one thing to see it with your own human eyes and take the picture yourself,
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but to then see the magic that Trey creates
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and being able to apply that same magic to your own photos,
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it's just a rare opportunity.
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I stumbled across HDR,
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found Trey's free tutorial, and it really just grew from there.
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I religiously go to his website every day to look at his next photograph and things like that.
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So when I saw this opportunity, it was just too good to miss.
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Wow, One word, really.
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I'm pleased with what I took away, not only on-site and with camera, but also in processing as well.
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Trey may be one of the best photographers in the world, but he doesn't make you feel he is.
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I took a lot of great notes, too.
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It's almost like flash cards that I can go to in those weird situations, should I ever
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encounter a fire dancer
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on the side of the road. From sunrise to sunset and from mountains to no clouds to
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wildlife,
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All of these things are all different, and they're all great, and they're all so
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unique. But it really helps you become a better photographer
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I feel that's probably the biggest shock:
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getting better the whole week. Maybe I was looking at the downside and thinking, "Ah, it's never going to happen for me,"
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but sure enough, it did.
