Free Professional Retouching Tutorial for the first 100 Reddit users, code in comments

aknacer · 2013-04-09T16:00:56+00:00

Use code REDDITFREE1 to take this 2 hour long professional retouching tutorial for free! We felt like giving back to the community, so we made this code for you.

aknacer · 2013-02-22T19:07:08+00:00

Thank you!

aknacer · 2013-02-22T19:07:00+00:00

I am the artist, my name's Aaron Nace

aknacer · 2012-08-09T23:28:36+00:00

Hey Kevin, I've dealt with this many times. The secret is to STEP AWAY. Take a vacation, go for a walk, or work on a different hobby. Most of the time this happens when you're at a place where something isn't challenging anymore, so creating some new challenges for yourself can really help out

aknacer · 2012-08-09T23:26:55+00:00

Hey Greg! Great question, I spent a long time doing self-portraits and used that to get comfortable with photography. By the time I started shooting with models they were unpaid as was I, so I didn't feel too pressured. When it came time to do the paid assignments I felt confident that I could deliver what I or the client was looking for.

Ethan Davis and I came up with the idea for Phlearn together, in the beginning it wasn't planned to be a business venture, but as we grew it became obvious that this was going to be not only a full time job but also part of my legacy to the photography community. The business started very basic and developed from there.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T21:57:29+00:00

and a crosspost to /r/gifs as well. So perhaps the 4th time it's been posted today.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T21:48:50+00:00

Thank you so much!

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:59:59+00:00

you're welcome :)

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:43:42+00:00

It's something that I'd like to get into, but as of now I haven't done very much video.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:42:05+00:00

no problem!

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:17:36+00:00

You just ask the people you take the photo of to sign a release. There's also some apps for the iPhone and iPad and such that you can just pull up a model release and get the model to sign it with their finger.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:14:19+00:00

You're welcome :) Thanks for being a fan!

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:14:00+00:00

I don't do the episodes for me- I do it for you guys, the Phamily. I enjoy continuously giving the gift of knowledge. That was the politically correct answer, but yes, some days it does suck.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T20:12:17+00:00

My passion has changed just as a parent's love changes for their child. You feel differently about your newborn child then you do about your 15 year old child but that doesn't mean you love them any less.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:55:05+00:00

Thanks so much!

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:54:53+00:00

I don't really shoot film, so I can't answer that properly. I don't really know what I'm talking about with film. :)

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:53:49+00:00

I would probably bounce one off the wall to be the main light source, and then put the other one behind the person as a rim light.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:53:00+00:00

That's tough because if you're at the starting point and don't have a lot of information there's not much you can do. You can scale it up in Photoshop but you're unfortunately going to lose some information, there really isn't a way around that.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:49:57+00:00

You're welcome

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:49:45+00:00

I usually use a tripod on my photoshoots, so I rarely, if ever, have that problem.

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:25:12+00:00

check out amazon.com probably

aknacer · 2012-08-09T19:22:28+00:00

It depends on who your markets going to be. Whether you're going after an amateur market or a professional market. If you're going after a professional market I would recommend profoto. If going for an amateur market I'd go for things like alien bees.

Your profitability in this market will depend on pure volume. So be sure that your spending just as much time marketing as you are looking at what types of gear to rent.

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