Photography, Retouching, and Life.
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Gene Bresler the founder of Catchlight (http://www.catchlightdigital.com/), a retouching studio/house located in Brooklyn, NYC. Putting it simply, he knows his shit. This podcast on the platform, “The Photo Banter” by Alex Gagne, goes into Gene’s beginnings, what it’s like being a great retoucher (and what makes it different from just having a strong skillset), making serious money, and work with high end brands.
What if there was something that allowed you to see an infinite amount of ways you could color grade an image? People always know what they don’t want, but figuring out what they like is the hard part. With the sheer amount of possible color variations that an image could lead to, the choices are almost infinite! And in that moment of realization, I came the idea for Infinite Color. It was born out of necessity for me. I was curious to see what it could do to my life and to others.
Tonight we had a retouching challenge. Tina Eisen was visiting Bella Kotak and myself and we decided to have a retouching challenge on a whim. Since each of us have our own styles, we figured to see what would happen if we each worked on the same image! We may have left a few things here and there but ultimately our styles came through.
Here's some recent retouching work and video work I did for Bella Kotak's "The Kiss". Also, some detail crops from the Phase One XF100!
Dogs in Food is perhaps one of the strangest Photoshop trends I've seen. However, it's oddly very fascinating too. I can't seem to look away! It's probably why the account nearly has 100k followers.
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As you can see from this conversation shared by David J. Crewe, they sent a message to him asking if they can share his work. The problem isn't permission or compensation for David, it's that they want to get paid to do it. The approach seems completely backwards, but based on them saying they are the "cheapest on Instagram" it begs a few question:
