WOW! – Films designed to create great images no matter what the location or lighting.

In this film you get to see Mark Cleghorn shooting model Rachael in a Dublin Hotel bar with just 2 speed lites and a couple of stands. Slow shutter speeds, high ISO, wide open aperture’s to capture detail in the scene as well as modelling and fill.

Mark explains why and how he sets out to get the shot, including ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speeds, Off Camera Flash, Radio Triggering.

In this film Mark Cleghorn takes us back to his roots in portraiture by shooting in a simple black and white style , with minimal lighting and black backgrounds, just as he started in his first studio in 1985.

You get to see what each light does in the setup as well as how to develop a simple 2 light studio style with impact through simplicity as well as how to add inreflectors to lift shadow areas on the subject. Mark also discusses pose,the light to subject position, as well as how to separating the subject from the scene .

Retouching is an essential skill in portraiture and if you want to make a big client look thinner than they really are, you will want to master the Liquify tool. In this film Mark Cleghorn guides you through the “How too’s” and “What Not To Do” in a very powerful utility that lives within Photoshop.

So if you want to learn the art of plastic surgery with Photoshop and the ability to give you subjects a Nip and a Tuck no matter what their size, you have to watch this film and learn the key skills of the Liquify Tool.

This film Covers – The Liquify Tool and how to use it.

Shooting young children can be a daunting task even for an experienced photographer so in this series of films following one child from new born. During 1 year Through The Lens you get to see the variety that MarkCleghorn shoots of one child as they grow.

In this film, the second session of Baby Evie’s 1 year TTL, you get to see Mark Cleghorn shooting real and raw in the studio .

This sesson sees baby Evie by her self with Mark shooting a variety images using simple backgrounds to give Low key, High key as well as images with red netting, he even gets to use his Angel Wings as a final prop.

Mark also discusses what he expected to get during the session, the basic studio setup and sales expectations.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, as you get to see how a working photographer copes under the pressures of a real wedding day, nothing fake here, as even the images have only been touched by camera RAW in conversion, so no Photoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White or colour boosted

In this film, the first part of a wedding day series, Mark Cleghorn starts shooting at the hotel were the bride is getting ready and leaving from.

Initially Mark talks about his setup for the day as well as the equipment he will be using during the day including how he uses and sets up simple speedlite flash.

PT4U Master Wild Life Photographer – Andy Rouse

World renowned wildlife photographer Andy Rouse has long since had a passion for wild things. He has built his reputation on getting close, in fact very close to some of the world’s largest and most dangerous animals; in doing so, capturing some of the most exciting and evocative photographic images of wildlife found today. With a style all of his own, Andy is equally passionate about the message that his images convey and sees his work as contributing to the general appreciation of our precious wildlife, hopefully stimulating us all to act on their behalf.

Every month using a combination of images and teaching films you will get to see the Master at work and an insight into the exotic animals as well as those closer to home.

In this 2 part film, Andy discusses getting close up photography, so portraiture is apart of his repertoire when shooting.

PT4U Master Portrait Photographer And Elements Guru- Kenny Martin

In this series of 25 short video tutorials, Kenny will explore from the ground up what Elements 7 can actually achieve. This inexpensive piece of software can produce stunning images and although is lacking many of the automation features and advanced tools of it’s big brother Photoshop, Elements can pretty much cope with anything that can be thrown at it including RAW files.

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USING A GREY CARD IN RAW Film 6 in this series of video tutorials on Elements 7 shows how to achieve perfect colour by using a grey card in your shoot and correcting in Camera RAW

Running Time 4.58

PT4U Master Portrait Photographer And Elements Guru- Kenny Martin

In this series of 25 short video tutorials, Kenny will explore from the ground up what Elements 7 can actually achieve. This inexpensive piece of software can produce stunning images and although is lacking many of the automation features and advanced tools of it’s big brother Photoshop, Elements can pretty much cope with anything that can be thrown at it including RAW files.

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B&W DIRECT FROM RAW In this 5th video for PT4U Kenny shows a quick and very easy way to create excellent B&W images directly from within the Camera RAW interface.

Running Time 4.28

MaskPro – Easy, professional quality image masking in Photoshop

In this film Andy from onOne software shares his Ten Top Tips for using Mask Pro to cut out images in Photoshop.

Make the time-consuming process of image masking quicker, easier and more effective with onOne Mask Pro. An award-winning Photoshop/Elements plug-in, onOne Mask Pro simplifies the difficult process of masking objects with thin or semi-transparent areas, such as human hair, and makes edge halos of background colours a thing of the past.

NEW FocalPoint 2 – The easy and effective way to add realistic lens blur and presets for the ultimate depth of field control after the shot

In this film Andy from onOne software demonstrates with one of Mark Cleghorn’s images selective blur techniques using the new Focal Point 2 plugin for photoshop and how it can be used creatively to adjust an image for more impact.

Covered in this film – onone software, focal point 2, software, plugins, photoshop, depth of field, blur