Retouching for Excellence

Written By Lane Barden

Digital image processing and retouching has advanced rapidly with content aware and AI tools. Its now about arriving quickly to the subtleties in the image that bring the image to a higher level, one that you can feel and experience, but not detect. The point is to create and execute a standard of excellence that will set you apart. I can do that for you.

If retouching can be detected I consider it a failure. The before and after photographs below demonstrate my point. Color grading was done with client feedback on a BenQ Adobe RGB 1998 display. Most of the heavy lifting was Photoshop hand work - copying and pasting and smoothing. It could not have been done well any other way then, now it could be faster.

Lane Barden

Lane Barden is an architecture photographer based in Los Angeles with over 20 years experience ranging from large corporate and institutional buildings to infrastructure, residential, retail, and restaurants. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico and has work in the collections of the L.A. County Museum, The Getty Research Institute, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the New Mexico State University Art Museum.

http://www.lanebarden.com
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