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Lightroom Presets

Posted in: Lightroom Presets

 

I only work in light room only for my personal shoots. That includes pictures of my family and few landscapes usually taken with Fuji E1 and  Nikon D3s.  My photographs were lot and editing them took lot of time to edit in photoshop. I wanted to find a way to save time.  I began creating presets (preset alterations to lighting and coloring) to speed up my workflow and to be more efficient. My goal is to save others time so that they can balance their time with their families and their long term work goals.

You May ask when there are other 3rd Party Plugins from Nik Software, Topaz Adjust and Onone Perfect effect why use this? Well there are many who dont use these 3rd party plugins as they cannot afford to buy it  or create one so I did the work for them.Taking about these presets, these work well with portraits and landscape. I would suggest you try different pictures for these effects as they will look different on each shots.

My recommendation though is to use a 3rd party filter but for those who cannot afford to get one, here are my first series in the free version. Please note that i have tested these presets only for Light room Version 4 and above. Let me know if it works in lower versions also. If you provide me the pictures that you applied these filter, i would gladly put them in the review section. Your reviews will help me develop more presets.

Kindly share this link to others.

There’s actually 5 of them.

1. VS-BW-Rustic

2. VS-Details

3. VS-High Contrast

4. VS-Brown Tint

5. VS-No Light

Samples

Here is few samples for the presets

VS-BW-Rustic

VS-BW-High Contrast

VS-BW-Details

VS-BW-Brown Tint

VS-BW-No Light

Download

You can download the presets below

Reviews
Neerajmurali-”of all i loved the brown tint”

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Detail Extractor

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Rustic

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Brown Tint

Installation

How to Install Presets in Lightroom 4
  1. Click the link to download your preset.
  2. Choose a location on your hard drive to SAVE the zip file. You need to be able to access the location again, so make sure you know the file path to the folder.
  3. After download is complete, go to the zip file (if your download window is open you can right click and choose ‘open containing folder’).
  4. Right click (or double click on a Mac) on the file and choose ‘Extract All Files.
  5. Click on the folder that holds the set of presets and press ‘control’ and ‘c’ (‘command’ and ‘c’ on a Mac) to copy the folder.
  6. Open your Lightroom program.
  7. PC users— go Edit in the top menu, then to Preferences. Mac users – click on Lightroom word (top-left corner of screen), then to Preferences.
  8. In the Preferences menu, click on the Presets tab, then click on “Show Lightroom Presets Folder” button.
  9. When your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder opens up, double click on the Develop Presets folder.
  10. Press ‘control’ and ‘v’ (‘command’ and ‘v’ on a Mac) to paste in the preset folder.
  11. Restart your Lightroom program and the presets will now show up under the Preset panel in the Develop module.

 

FAQ

How do I install my presets?

Mentioned in the installation section

How do I know if I shoot RAW or jpeg images?

Read the Camera Manual.

Do you suggest RAW presets on jpeg pictures? Or jpeg presets on RAW pictures?

Both the formats work

Are all of your downloads instant? Do I receive anything in the mail?

Yes, all of our downloads are instant.

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Vineet Suthan

Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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May 16, 2013 - 1:02 pm

Zaki Qutteineh - Great blog, Vineet … very well presented (especially with the before-after slider).

May 16, 2013 - 1:04 pm

Vineet Suthan - Thanks…Glad you liked it. It took me 2 days to get this stuff working;)

MOTHERS NEST-MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHY-SERIES 3

Posted in: Maternity

Dubai Maternity Photographer 04

Dubai Maternity Photographer 03

Dubai Maternity Photographer 02

Dubai Maternity Photographer 01

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Maternity Photography

This is another series of dresses that i like the most in these series. The bags that are shown in the picture are part of the maternity and not just for the sake of photography. Its good to incorporate props in your shot just to make it quite different. This was a planned shot in terms of props as the client wanted to incorporate these in the shot. The difficultly here in this shot when shooting with two models is that a shadow of one should not fall on other and if they are unavoidable then it should not be dark and ugly. You can see the shadows are there on the model on the left but its not too dark. The lighting diagram is shown below. You may check the series 1 here, Series 2 here

Mothers Nest-Dresses for Maternity

I am not being paid by the Mothers Nest for this but i should say this is a shop has some amazing clothes for your maternity at a reasonable rates. I would highly recommend this shop if you every intend to do a Maternity shoot with me. I shall be providing soon a page for the dress that you could wear for Maternity Photoshoot from this store soon.

Model Release Form

The client had earlier requested if i could have a model release form but i soon forgot about it. Why the client requested for the Model Release form is because the images were going to be used for various commercial prints and hence they requested me to get them. Is this applicable in all the situations. Though some may say that only for commercial work the model release is required while few others would debate if the models cannot be identified in the picture then not required. What did i mean by model not identified. Well say you took a  silhouette of the model where you cannot identify who the model is or you took the back side of the model where the face is not shown in the picture in these cases MRF is not required.   i would say it is better to get the MRF whenever you shoot people in studio and especially if you are paying them modelling fees.

I have created one model Release form which is almost similar to the one when found in the internet. While that version is in PDF my version is in Microsoft Word for you to edit them for your taste. Click here to download

Lighting Diagram

For the lighting, i knew i had to use the Big Softboxes (Profoto 6×4-click to purchase from Adorama) to light the model and the dress. The reason for choosing big soft box is i had to light the dress evenly and only a big softbox i can think of. The small softbox were light from Visico Lights and used mainly for the background lights. Why mixed light well, the studio only had only these ones (lets not go in for color consistency for this matter) . Here for this shots, the background lights were reduced and kept it a lower level than the front lights as we did not want a pure white nor too dark images. The models was around 1.5 to 2 meter away from the wall. One model was just behind another a little bit.

Post Processing:

Camera Raw-Basic Adjustment like Contrast,  Clarity, Hue and Saturation and Chromatic Aberration

Adobe Photoshop Cs6-Retouching Floors and Skin.  Basic Color Toning.

For the client i avoided the overall color tone and left as shot as they wanted to feature this in the brouchers. The Skin retouching was one using Imagenomic Portraiture. This plugin saves a lot of time when you have around 50 shots to retouch.

Disclosure

If you make a purchase using links found in this article(Adorama, Amazon)regardless of the country in which you live, I may make a commission. It doesn’t cost you a penny more, but it does help to support future articles like this.

If you enjoy reading this blog, please support future articles like this by donating a dollar .Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Tethering Cable-Nikon D800-Review

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Tethering Cable-Nikon D800

Hi everyone, today i thought i would give insight into buying a tethered cable for your camera. As an example, i am just account for my Nikon D800 Body. For my recent Maternity shoot, in order to have a productive shoot, it would be a nice idea if the client can see the shots instead of showing them via camera LCD. This would reduce unnecessary shots and the client could select the pictures then and there itself.  I had been to the studio before and i found the location of where my Laptop would sit and where my camera would be. I found that length was more than 2 meters in length. The USB cable that came with the d800 was really short and i needed a larger cable.

You may say, I could get a Nikon Wireless File Transmitter for my camera or even get an Eye Fi X2 16 card and set it up to work with the wireless network but that would set you back $700 or $ 92 and also you would need to have a wireless network present in that studio and as a engineer in this field, i can say, that the cable system is more reliable than wireless especially in this situations where the data is being transfered and i did not want any issue with wireless where the transfer of the image could cause a hinderance. Also with the data transfer will depend on the distance between the laptop and camera. The more the distance the longer time for data transfer.

 

SuperSpeed Micro-B Cable-TetherPro USB 3.0

The 15′ (4.6 m) TetherPro USB 3.0  Cable from Tether Tools is a premium quality extension cable. This cable can be purchased at Adorama and Amazon 

Specifications

  • SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over USB 2.0.
  • Fully shielded
  • Integrated Sync-N-Go technology which minimizes user wait-time.
  • Optimized Power Efficiency.  No device polling and lower active/idle power requirements.
  • Backwards compatible with USB 2.0.  Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platform.

The set-up is simple, you just need to plug the male end of the active extension cable to your computer and then plug your camera or other devices’ USB cable into the female end of this cable.The 15 foot(4.6m) USB 3.0 cable connects to the camera using the micro B connector to ensure delivery of excellent performance.  Available in High-Visibility Orange or Black.

Conclusion:

I ordered this tethered cable from Adorama which is priced at $49. You can also order it from Amazon. Asi needed this cable within one week in Dubai and i knew i could rely on Adorama as usual. I got the cable within 4 days (including holidays). I found this cable to be rigid and strong and value for money. The transfer speed is amazing and it took around 2-3 second for a RAW file to be shown in the Lightroom. This cable is pretty good stuff and i highly recommend this cable if anyone is planning to get one. One thing to note here is, this cable is not very flexible like any other USB 2 cables  you might have encountered and hence you need to be make sure that the connected end of the camera does not have any stress or strain. I had mine come out during the shoot and i was lucky it was not during the file transfer. To avoid this you can get the JerkStopper Camera Support priced at $17. You can get this cable from Amazonalso here This is shown below

What if you need more than 4 meter cable. Can you add another USB extension cable from local market. Well you could but once this cables (Passive cable) goes beyond 4 m in length, the data transmission may result in signal errors and noise and hence are not recommended. You could in fact get an Active extension cable. An active USB device enables signals and data transfers going in and out of the extension cable to buffer and ensure consistent signal quality, thus meeting USB’s highest electrical and timing specifications. Up to four active USB extensions and one passive 15′ (4.57 m) USB can be daisy chained together for a total of 80′ (24.38 m) before any drop in signal or quality.

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If you enjoy reading this blog, please support future articles like this by donating a dollar .Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Maternity Photography-Series 2

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Posted by Vineet Suthan

Maternity Photography

Nargiza Mahmudova was my second model to agree for this MaternityShoot and glad she nodded yes. To be frank, i have never worked with Nargiza before nor have had any interaction of any kind for some reasons i added her (It could be that i saw her works) but never imagined i would be working with her. Thanks to you. You may check the series 1 here

The Client Shoot

I know many of my readers or those following me are expecting to see some thing amazing from the series of the shot. All i can say is it is not the usual kind of shots where there is contrast to the picture with lots of shadows and amazing hair styles and poses from the models. This is the kind of shot is what the client desires( as they want to have this in their pamphlets,brochures and website) and as a photographer you need to go by it.

Creativity Lost

When doing a client shot, most of the time creativity as a photographer is lost. This is because it is the client who dictates what he/she wants and you as a photographer need to do what they say. Even though you know you could make this more better and awesome than what the client things, you become limited. So you may ask why then they hire me? You are hired because you have a skill to do a specific job and also you fall in a certain budget for the client. You can do creative shots with the funds that you get from the client;)

Advantage of shooting for a small client

This project though small in nature helped me a lot in many ways. Mainly coordination with the  models and MUA, budgeting and finding the studios. Though there is less of creativity, always i looked if the client project excited me and when it does just give a nod;)

Lighting Diagram

For the lighting, i knew i had to use the Big Softboxes (Profoto 6×4-click to purchase from Adorama) to light the model and the dress. The reason for choosing big soft box is i had to light the dress evenly and only a big softbox i can think of. The small softbox were light from Visico Lights and used mainly for the background lights. Why mixed light well, the studio only had only these ones (lets not go in for color consistency for this matter) . Here for this shots, the background lights were reduced and kept it a lower level than the front lights as we did not want a pure white nor too dark images. The model was around 1.5 to 2 meter away from the wall.

Post Processing:

Camera Raw-Basic Adjustment like Contrast,  Clarity, Hue and Saturation and Chromatic Aberration

Adobe Photoshop Cs6-Retouching Floors and Skin.  Basic Color Toning.

For the client i avoided the overall color tone and left as shot as they wanted to feature this in the brouchers. The Skin retouching was one using Imagenomic Portraiture. This plugin saves a lot of time when you have around 50 shots to retouch.

Disclosure

If you make a purchase using links found in this article(Adorama, Amazon)regardless of the country in which you live, I may make a commission. It doesn’t cost you a penny more, but it does help to support future articles like this.

If you enjoy reading this blog, please support future articles like this by donating a dollar .Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Mothers Nest-Maternity Photography-Series 1

Posted in: Maternity

Maternity Photography 01

 

Maternity Photography 01b

Posted by Vineet Suthan

Maternity Photography

Story-How it all started

I knew this store by the name Birth Village when my wife was expecting our second child. I know you would be laughing if i told you the moment i entered the store, i told my wife that one day i would surely get a call from this store to do a shoot and so after almost a year i got a call from the store for a photo-shoot and this time they have revamped the store and changed the name to Mothers Nest

Meetings

I sat with the client for almost 4 times- mainly how to fake pregnancy and for that we even had my wife as a test model and our fabulous Make Up Artist. Then meeting on the different dresses and accessories to be worn and another meeting on the kind of looks and poses and finally the studio selection and payments;). So you see it is very important to sit with the client and discuss all the minor issues that can occur.

Models/Makeup Artist

This was my first time me finding Models and Makeup artist for a client project. Usually for the works i have done with  the client, this has been sorted out already but this time around it was up to me to do the big task. First i targeted the MUA. I first send few messages to the MUA that i knew via facebook and  most of them never replied (maybe because of the nature of the project), those replied were on vacation and only 3 of them replied back positively. All the request were finally forwarded to the client for selection and approval and finally we had Yhence Sioting on board. I had seen Yhence works for beauty and fashion and i should say they are amazing and no only that she is amazing person to work with and she knows her work! You can check her facebook link  here.

The next task was the models. Its not easy to get models for this kind of project and i had to believe in Luck. So the first task was to virtually send messages to models i knew from facebook and decide to wait for a response. Simultaneously, i had also contacted other modeling agency for models too. Finally after few days or so, i got positive response from three models. By the end of the week only two models, Maria Ainsa Estaun and Nargiza Mahmudova were glad to be part of the project as this was something they have not done before. I have only worked once with Maria one year ago maybe in a charity photoshoot and with Nargiza it was the first time  even talking with her( I just dont know how she is my facebook but glad she is).

The Team

I feel to every successful project, to me at least, its the MUA and the Models that makeup the most part of the project. Nothing else. Glad i had a wonderful team and hope to work with you guys in future.

Lighting Diagram

For the lighting, i knew i had to use the Big Softboxes (Profoto 6×4-click to purchase from Adorama) to light the model and the dress. The reason for choosing big soft box is i had to light the dress evenly and only a big softbox i can think of. The small softbox were light from Visico Lights and used mainly for the background lights. Why mixed light well, the studio only had only these ones (lets not go in for color consistency for this matter) . For the first shot, the background lights were given a high power than the front softboxes to give a high key kind of an effect, while the second image the background lights were reduced and kept it a lower level than the front lights as we did not want a pure white nor too dark images. The model was around 1.5 to 2 meter away from the wall.

Post Processing:

Camera Raw-Basic Adjustment like Contrast,  Clarity, Hue and Saturation and Chromatic Aberration

Adobe Photoshop Cs6-Retouching Floors and Skin.  Basic Color Toning.

For the client i avoided the overall color tone and left as shot as they wanted to feature this in the brouchers. The Skin retouching was one using Imagenomic Portraiture. This plugin saves a lot of time when you have around 50 shots to retouch.

Disclosure

If you make a purchase using links found in this article(Adorama, Amazon)regardless of the country in which you live, I may make a commission. It doesn’t cost you a penny more, but it does help to support future articles like this.

If you enjoy reading this blog, please support future articles like this by donating a dollar .Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Vineet Suthan

Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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May 12, 2013 - 3:42 am

Adam Backer - Great work Vineet as always! Love the picture of the mother with her little girl kid.

May 12, 2013 - 3:45 am

Vineet Suthan - Adam Backer: Its one of my fav too.

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