The Studio: Creating a quality composite group shot

You might think this sort of shot needs a large photography studio and expensive lighting rig... think again.
In this episode of 'The Studio', we bring you a tutorial on the whole process used to create this quality, group portrait. We cover the initial design stage, the photoshoot in my small studio space and the techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop needed to creating the final composite piece.
All the techniques used in Photoshop are non-destructive - I believe this is the best way to preserve maximum quality, and flexibility... at the expense of file-size of course.
NICK CHURCH PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION:
Nick Church Photography Education provides workshops on all the techniques used in this tutorial, as well as a suite of business coaching for photographers looking to take their work and their business to the next level. More details here:
www.nickchurchphotography.co....
MUSIC:
The music featured in this video is 'Tramadol' by me (Nick Church). You can download the full track here:
www.nickchurchphotography.co....

Пікірлер: 38

  • @peteristvanphotography
    @peteristvanphotography3 жыл бұрын

    "F-ing million ways...", love it. This video was very timely, upcoming group composite.

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha - thanks Peter, glad it was f-ing useful

  • @peteristvanphotography

    @peteristvanphotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NickChurchPhotography Ya, really helpful. Gave me F-ing million things to consider and think about and plan for, awesome.

  • @iamsomebodyfacesofhomeless3618

    @iamsomebodyfacesofhomeless3618

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NickChurchPhotography I hollowed! Hilarious!

  • @drewonaiyekan
    @drewonaiyekan3 жыл бұрын

    Great workNick, thank you for the details

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Drew’s my pleasure. Let me know what you want to see featured next

  • @bmkq2007
    @bmkq200711 ай бұрын

    Very refreshing, you have ignited my interest again in making one for my family. Been away from compositing for a real long time as its not my main photographic work but alway appreciate it when its done right. Thanks Nick

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    11 ай бұрын

    My pleasure, glad it was helpful 👍🏼👍🏼📸

  • @Andru.
    @Andru.3 жыл бұрын

    Great breakdown and process. Thanks for sharing

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure Andru

  • @Spencer_White
    @Spencer_White2 жыл бұрын

    Cool walkthrough Nick, thanks for sharing 🤓👍

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    Cheers Scott, thanks for taking a look

  • @chrisfrancis18
    @chrisfrancis183 жыл бұрын

    VERY USFUL. Thank for sharing and posting

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad it was useful. Cheers

  • @stevechong65
    @stevechong653 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic! You deserve more subscribers and views!

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are no wrong my old chap

  • @tahvean
    @tahvean3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    You’re welcome

  • @yahweheventcaptures6709
    @yahweheventcaptures67092 жыл бұрын

    Cool ❤️❤️🙏

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @Grom59
    @Grom59 Жыл бұрын

    superbe. merci pour ce tuto ;)

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    Жыл бұрын

    de rien!

  • @michaelsales2143
    @michaelsales21432 жыл бұрын

    F-bombs left and right lol awesome.

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know - can't help it! Haha. Hopefully the message still comes across :-)

  • @mariobryan5466
    @mariobryan54662 жыл бұрын

    I greatly appreciate the time and effort in this post. Not only step by step but the thinking prior to the shoot is often overlooked. Can you send a link to the free overlays?

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m really pleased it is valuable. Sure. I’ll provide an updated link in the description… I’ll reply again when it’s updated

  • @mariobryan5466

    @mariobryan5466

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NickChurchPhotography Thank you

  • @robwisken3030
    @robwisken30303 жыл бұрын

    Great video thank you 🙏🏻 what would be the best way to learn PS on my Mac? I’m literally starting from scratch so watching that was very daunting

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi - thank you for the feedback, really appreciate it. Photoshop has almost unlimited capability, but you need to grasp the concepts of layers and masks and all the tools before you can start to unleash all that power. This is especially the case if you’re coming from Lightroom where the whole method of processing is totally different. There are two options to get this knowledge, depending on whether time or cost is the priority. If you want to save money, then ploughing through KZread tutorials will do the job eventually. If you want to ramp up more quickly then a workshop/training is the best way. I do run a one-day workshop (in one chunk or split up) via zoom on ‘all things Photoshop’ aimed at photographers. This would give you all the underlying concepts and once they were on board we could walk through this example which would suddenly make a lot more sense. If you’re interested in that head to the ‘About’ section and my email address is there. Thanks again for the message 👍🏼

  • @davidbailey1689
    @davidbailey16893 жыл бұрын

    Superb, but way beyond my current skills.

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you’re interested in a zoom workshop, I run a course called Photoshop Essentials which gives all the skills you need to ease into this sort of project. Give me a shout if interested nick@nickchurchphotography.co.uk

  • @grahamharris5241
    @grahamharris52413 жыл бұрын

    I found the music overpowering.

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    3 жыл бұрын

    As I wrote and performed it myself, I’ll take that as a compliment 💪🏼

  • @graememacdonald1088

    @graememacdonald1088

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NickChurchPhotography I was going to say how useful and interesting the process was, but instead I'm going to say how cool and zen-like the music is :) Great stuff!

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@graememacdonald1088 Thanks Graeme. That’s very kind sir!!

  • @HemantKumar-ot3er
    @HemantKumar-ot3er2 жыл бұрын

    For a British person, you are having a hard time pronouncing "lasso" properly. There's only one "O" in there, mate.

  • @NickChurchPhotography

    @NickChurchPhotography

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, it’s how we say Lasso in the UK. The English language is full of unusual quirks like this… Everyone in Australia pronounces it Lassoo too

  • @Taylordessalines

    @Taylordessalines

    Жыл бұрын

    What an a$@holey thing to say.