Visual Artistry—Course Preview
Tony SweetDescription
Visual artistry in contemporary photography involves creative images enhanced through editing software. In this photography tutorial series, professional photographer and editor Tony Sweet takes you to Charleston, South Carolina, for some amazing visual artistry. You will visit the tree boneyard on Edisto Island, street scenes in historic downtown Charleston, the woods in Battery Park, the pristine Magnolia Gardens, and an old, majestic plantation home.
Tony will show you long exposure techniques, how to compose panoramas, mirror images, and infrared photographs. You will learn about in-camera multiple exposures, digital sandwiching, HDR or high dynamic range, and black & white conversions. Tony will also take you through the complete process of digital editing.
See all of the videos in our Visual Artistry Course:
- Visual Artistry—Course Preview
- Using Long Exposure to Photograph Water
- HDR Photography: Capturing a Water Scene
- Close-Up Photography: Capturing the Details of Shells
- Photographing Scenery with Multiple Exposures
- Black and White Conversion
- Capturing the Beauty of Downtown Charleston
- Infrared Photography: Tips on Shooting and Editing
- How to Mirror an Image Using Photoshop
- How to Photomerge to Create a Panoramic Image
- Creating a Digital Sandwich
- Capturing Unique Shots in Drayton Cellar
- Capturing HDR Images at Drayton
- Capturing and Editing Infrared Images
- Mirroring Images at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Charleston Gallery
- Drayton Hall: Stitching and Merging Photos
- Assembling a Digital Sandwich at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Trees with Multiple Exposures
Hi, I'm Tony Sweet and welcome to visual artistry. We are in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the most beautiful cities in the country at one of the best times of year, which is springtime. The flowers are incredible and the trees are blooming. It's just a very bountiful place to photograph. We will be taking you to Edisto Island, which has this great boneyard, and downtown Charleston, the historic part, which is just numerous photo ops down there.
Detail stuff. Just great color in the houses and the old structures, et cetera. And Drayton Hall, which you see behind me right now, and Magnolia Gardens. We're gonna be talking about pre-visualizing your final image based on software use, plug-in use. Some little Photoshop thing.
Nothing too complicated that I do. The more that we use software, the more that we start pre-visualizing the final image based on what we're gonna do with it. Now whether that's like a neg plug-in, which I use all of them, or Lucis Pro, which I use, or Topaz, which I also use quite a bit. And the way that these work together, with your photographic eye, the way you create an image, is very important. Doesn't need to be very complicated Photoshop stuff.
These plug-ins are very cogent, very powerful, what I call mini apps, and they're very easy to use.
Like to see use of new software tools.
Always looking for new perspectives.