in this video
I show you how to give a modern twist to a classic technique
as I make a retro-styled crossed polarizers
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us the tell refers now today it's horrible outside it's wet and miserable
perfect day hasn't indoor photography I'm gonna great vintage retro style
shoot a daily
here in my studio what is vintage retro that for me not true
what it is is why the very first techniques like ever learnt way back in
the eighties
school cross polarized nation now
the end result should have a lovely 80's vintage feel because we're gonna and it
XD to it
and if you want to use the Text yourself you want to download link in the
description below
you can download it for free and use it on your photographs okay so what do you
need you need
a piece of equipment that's rather essential to cross polarization
and the polarizing filter let's face it
this filter should be in every photographer's bag it does
a range of things it comes at reflections it makes colors more punchy
please guys blow a
it does cross polarization but is also
a really essential filter just the general photography
and if you want to find out more on how to use the polarizing filter
check out the Adorama Learning Center lots of articles and tips
on how to get the best out a little guy so that's one thing you need the other
thing you need is a source
have polarized light well when it where you can find a polarized light source
where you've already got one and you're probably looking at it right now
yet if you're looking and LCD screen you're looking at a polarized light
source
a case under the modern ones not quite the same so this might be a great
opportunity to dig out and old LCD screen
or in my case an old laptop now to turn it into a polarized light source
you need to jump into Photoshop make a new document make it nice and big
and make sure it has white as its Phil kala then you gonna need to select the
Zoom tool
press the Tab key that we get rid of all love the toolbars around the outside
right click on your image choose actual pixels to make it even bigger press the
F key or shift F to make it fit up the screen and remove
all the clutter around the outside so this is what you end up with a complete
white screen
and this is gonna be our light source but first we need to get it the right
way up
because this is the wrong way round so very very carefully
and the take my laptop turn it around say the screen is actually
on the the desk and that's what we're gonna put
our object on the photograph I'm not getting it straight onto the screen
just gonna elevated ever so slightly helps to protect the screen
and it also means beyond any pixels showing in the picture as well
I was gonna put a sheet of glass just like that
and that's what I'm gonna put something on so what object he gonna use well
anything that is a clear plastic
will work and by work I mean you'll see amazing colors coming through the clear
plastic
but because this is about a retro vintage feeling
shoot I've got wanna vase and for the younger viewers this is a cassette tape
so before they were CD before the mp3's before
iTunes with ever invented this is how I saw the music up my youth
and there are to be honest it looked pretty plain awful as well site
I'm not ready to sad that this is gonna get a little bit destroyed
don't do this if it is your favorite type because what we're gonna do
could really damage it a little bit okay
festival let's put that down on the glass and less
set up the camera to take a photograph so my camera is the Canon 60d and the
lens is a Canon 60mm macro lens
I'm gonna polarizing filter on the front of the lens there
so has just bring the same oh shoot from a bomb looking straight down onto the
cassette tape
and if I to take a pitch in now what's gonna happen
I'm shooting an average parity made public should say that as well was gonna
happen
is I'm gonna get picture the cassette tape and it got some wonderful colors
all I for and
as colors don't exist other than in the cross polarized light
and polarized filter brilliant now if I rotate my future around
I can't he make the background gape your black
at just the right point that background suddenly disappears
and drops out to pure black if I continue to rate a turnaround
I get a nice bright white background as well
so I can choose a black background a gray background or white background
but with these amazing colors coming through the cassette tape
that's crossed polarizers Asian in action and that is
the basics this technique where we're going to take it a little bit
for that
and we're taking it for the one that she gonna do is
slightly ruin the tape que se now useful piece of equipment is a
pyro or a pencil canned well you know why if you remember these things from
is come by I'm gonna hook out a little bit of the tape and put it down
okay so just give it a bit more interest we're gonna have some
tape billow the cassette itself sits down on the glass
and IMU arrange the tape in a a suitably
interesting happen
okay so what I'm gonna do is just see if I can get this to form
a heart shape I just pinching
a little bit the tape together like that
and that I was going to arrange the rest to the tape justina a random order
now it will take a minute to just to get this exactly how I want it
thank russia is bit really important but what you got the tape set correctly
and cassettes imposition you're ready to start taking some pitches
so I'm ready to start taking the pictures the camera is in the correct
position
and if you're wondering why I'm not shooting vertically from above well
because if the way a cassette tape works
it's a very thin very up right things a five-page government from above
we wouldn't see all the curls so we're on a bit of an angle here
let's just take the pitch and see what we get I'm gonna spin the polarizing
filter around him I get a nice
white background because that's really the the background I want most of all
and when I reviewed the shot moon good and bad
I don't mind the suffer any outside cuz I know I can take that away in Photoshop
really easily but the background isn't really very white
and the anger or the cassette is wrong because I know this is going now
on a grungy background and the download link for the grunge background
in the description the live so that's not quite what I'm of desolate hearing
things got two problems as they were the first one
the white background to make that white background really white
I'm gonna increase my exposure compensation by plus
one-stop and that should give me a nice white background
okay what about the actual falling over tape well I'm gonna fix that
by using an ability but at this stuff this is blue TAC or white tak
it's just been really useful to have in the studio or in that time
usually use it to exposed as to the wall that kinda thing
but today I'm going to use it to prop up the cassette say
a little bit I've rode out into %uh some sausage shape
mood just prop and on the nay in Press that down
in very careful not to disturb my tape by possibly
I am so hopefully when I take this picture
what I should end up with is the appearance
that the cassette tape is flat and that is exactly what I'm off to
brilliant okay so that's got the white background sorted
now and it is once more but with the black background
remember there is no black background it's just a matter turning the
polarizing filter
until you see that background a black remember to adjust the exposure
compensation
down to minus one otherwise it'll be about not being black in soho
and there is not a canteen pitches is because the black background image
had a little bit more common a little bit more at interest on the cassette
tape
where some of that lost on the white background so in British up we're gonna
bring the issue images together
and get the best from both and guess what we're gonna do that
right now course these images started life
as raw files and in we're all I've done is I push the vibrance the saturation
quite strong
and may have put a little bit a clarity in there
yeah I kappa B quite a bit so this is the black one in the black
looks really good on the tape lots of detail even in the shadows but not
really good on the background and that is one of the problems
on using the crossed polarizers on the black
however the white one lovely clean background a little bit murky
on some other shadowy areas all the tape
and that's what we're gonna do with a combined the best about bits so there's
grab this one by selecting it all
edit and copy jump back to the other pitcher
edit and paste I remember these two pitches were taken seconds apart
tripod didn't move the tape didn't move everything lines up
perfectly however I do have these areas have blackened
and online and that's just the white boxes I was using to prop up the glass
and the edge of the glass in
the heir to the laptop and so on so to fix that all I need to do is get a
paintbrush
make sure it loaded up with the same color as the background in this case is
a nice pure white
and I can just paint is away now I feel background doesn't come out pure white
if it's
a slightly grayish time need to fix that with many levels
or you can actually fill in with the grayish time just
sample the color with the eyedropper tool from fairly close to the tape
cassette
and M them just pain but that
okay so that's nice and clean in the background but what about these murky
shadows well for that we're gonna need a mask
liar I am ask review all
now I'm still working with a paintbrush and because I'm now on a lion mask is
changed my foreground color to black for me
thank you very much that is lovely I can just paint across the shadowy parts
and just Fillion with the the slightly more detail
that came with the black background and I'm going to the other side Lizzie
minutes be a bit more accurate
need to be careful because if I accidentally click in the middle I'm
gonna get the black background
not the white backgrounds I need to make sure I'm doing that Righton
will keep a close eye on that but Alex okay it was a lost a little bit a detail
up on the the edge
ESA let's just grab a little bit that as well just to fill out in
maybe get a safe you can combine the best bits are both images
to get exactly what you want now what about this
be in the middle of the right-hand real well
that's where I shove the blue tax rate to prop everything up and I'm gonna fix
that by making a brand-new
and and bettina and then I meaning a clone stamp to
make sure sample all I as is turned on and I'm just gonna sample
from this part on the left hand side
and put it over on the right hand side and we just gonna paint that in
now little bit more accuracy would have been nice but that's close enough for
now
okay so that works really well that fills in the whole and gets rid of the
the strange blue TAC
that was filling up so that is the pitcher completed you could stop here
quite happy he's got a beautiful clean white background
Lawson really funky colors and of course the
the main beautiful bit at the bottom the heart shape type
but wouldn't go one step further let's go to liar
and flatten the image damn and select
ano edit and copy
now we've made available this texture and it really does work well with this
style of the image
gives a a beautiful retro all grungy fail
now you can download it there is the download link in the description below
and as long as you're using for personal use you can do in like with it
when I'm gonna do is going to end it and choose Paste
and that will paste our tape onto the texture and completely cover the text
her up
not to worry because we can blend those two images together by changing the lab
lending made
currently a normal but Reid are can multiply Caliburn
they all look slightly different darkens good multiplies
bit better I do like Caliburn I have to say
that one does that really appealed to me but is kinda personal taste
so I think I'll stick with the multiply which is just a little bit safer
so they go there is Mike frost pay rise vintage image completed
well it's really bring back some memories
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