RetouchPRO LIVE presenter & topic requests

[eraanexact]

@Flashtones,
I've worked on some of Jim Haefner's stuff. I don't know how much he does in-house, but I have personally worked a several images on his site, and have seen some of his interior shots on Gecko's portfolio.
He does great work either way though!

[Flashtones]

Ricky, interesting. All I know is I see him participate on the Luminous Landscape message board, and when he speaks about doing his post processing it sounds as though he's speaking about himself doing the work. Maybe he does some of the smaller jobs,as time permits, or maybe he's referring to overseeing the work of others.

He does do great work, and since you've worked on some of is portfolio shots hopefully someday you will present on RetouchPro Live.

FWIW, I know car shots entail a lot of stripping the vehicle into new backgrounds, removing shooting rigs, adding shadows and such, but what I'm most interested in is the precise shadings, contouring and sometimes virtual relighting of the cars that takes place in post. We see a lot of tuts for contouring faces and skin, but the degree of precision required in product photography makes it a different beast. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as with photographers too, those who are versed in fashion/beauty don't necessarily make the best product retouchers, and vice versa.

[eraanexact]

Well, yes and no. It's true that cleaning up sheet metal on a car is, comparably, way more heavy handed than cleaning up skin. There is usually a strange, puckered texture on sheet metal that you can plainly see on the horizon lines that is referred to as "orange peeling", because it looks like the horizon line is falling on the surface of an orange. That kind of thing is usually flattened and straightened out so as to get rid of the texture, whereas in beauty retouching, the objective is to clean up the skin without losing texture and making it look, well, retouched.
I think with automotive/product retouching, you have to be meticulous about your masks. "Live and die by your mask", my boss would say, and it's totally true. It's the same in beauty, but I think with that you could get away with softer, more "organic" masks.

Car interiors, especially with leather seats, are an exception to the sentiment that product and beauty retouchers are completely different breeds. Cleaning up leather seats is a lot like cleaning up skin in that you want to preserve as much leather grain detail as possible, especially with the luxury brands who tend to present their catalogs and ads as if they were fine art prints. Working in Detroit, I didn't get to work on too many beauty shots, but when I did, I knew how to clean up skin based on how I clean up leather interiors.

[PKibble]

another vote for Katrin Eismann and photo restoration

[mawu]

My vote for Christophe Huet. And Christian Schmidt or Amy Dresser would be also great :-)

[dbliss]

Doug:
You said that you had no requests for Katrin Eismann. I did make that request in the questionare that you sent out. Deke McClelland would also make a great choice.

[Doug Nelson]

Read the post dates, quite a few requests have come in since then. Katrin is easily one of the most requested presenters.

Of course, anyone that reads this thread could help by emailing presenters they'd like to see and asking them to please present on RetouchPRO LIVE.

[lurch]

I'd like to see Burt Monroy.

[Flashtones]

A lot of great people have been requested, but so many of them are already available on Lynda or Kelbytraining, etc. Do you want to be getting the people everyone gets, or do you want to be the place for unique presenters?

[Doug Nelson]

No other venue offers the interactivity RP LIVE does, so my only criterion would be the value of the content to our viewers.

That said, anyone with a contract with another site might not be willing/able to present anywhere else. No firm rule there, just a possibility.

[Flashtones]

Okay, well as mentioned, Bert Monroy is a god. John Paul Caponigro and Vincent Versace are also quite good. Off the beaten track, James Quantz (http://www.quantzphoto.com/) posts here. I'd like to watch him work.

[gene_spark]

I would like to see Paskal Dangin, or that would also be nice: Klinko/ Indrani
integration of Photography, Make-up and Postproduction.
lg.
gene

[robotdevil]

I'm voting for Christophe Huet as well, and although I don't think they'd be willing, the artist Eugenio Recuenco. His work blows my mind.

[stopa]

Hello,

What do you think if I run future webinar?
I am expert in Liquify enhances.
I can share my knowledge how to use this tool.

I suggest 3 topics: (each 45 min long)
- Respect for anatomy / rebuilding model body
- Cleaning after Liqyfy
- Liquyfy madness / incredible!

I am not sure about my english - I better speak, than write, but will it be enought to conduct classes?

[Calvinhollywood]

Amy Dresser, Christopher Huett, Taylor James, Dave Hill, Scott Dorman

If you like to have some well known german presenters.... let me know.
Most of them can also speak german:-)))))

lg Calvin
http://www.calvinhollywood.de

[jtd131]

Christophe Huet and the melting people! that would be cool, but how about some compositing like that seen with pixelrefinery.com Dont know how possible that would be, but very interesting none the less.

Amt Dresser, etc. would be awesome. Do it!

[bpurvis]

Originally Posted by palms1

Just in case it is not just retouching

Trimoon aka Steve LeQuier

Palms

I second the Trimoon request!

[curkojurko]

to show some behind the scene from www.viennapaint.com would be nice

[Cybersong]

Calvin Hollywood would be nice to see in the lineup of presenters. Shouldn't be a problem contacting him either as he is here on the forum, and has even made some wishes of his own. :-)
Another presentation with Chris would also be very welcome.

[Karlington]

Jill Greenberg
Amy Dresser
Christopher Huett
Taylor James
Dave Hill

[RhMaMoL]

I definately think Calvin Hollywood would be a good presenter.

[episodic]

Scott Deardorff and his smudging technique.


Our very own palms and his smudging technique.

[shamrock2008]

Anything on Landscapes !

[skydog]

If you have events during the week I'd like to see a rebroadcast during the weekend.!!!

[Kraellin]

i've always wanted to be able to look over our own Flora's shoulders when she's doing a restoration. not sure she's available, though.

[farhadfar]

Hi there,
I'm very interested in a webinar by an advertisement retoucher. To be specific, I'm looking to achieve the look in most of David Drebin's advertisement work:

http://www.daviddrebin.com/

Thanks!

[shamrock2008]

Anything on Landscape or HDR or panoramic photography would be great, well great for me LOL not sure how others feel ???

[omytfineo1]

Katrin Eismann.... I love her book restoration & retouching and would love to see her restoration workflow in action. Maybe she can kill two birds with one stone and combine her masking and compositing with her restoration.

On a side note, it would be cool to get an inside look at how these professionals also run their art/photo/design businesses... a business workflow if you will.

[Minoj]

another vote for Katrin Eismann and photo restoration

[Tgrain]

I would love to see Art of 3 points blue and his automotive work

http://www.3pointsblue.com