Photo Deconstruction: Lord of the Flies, Forest Beauty Portrait

[@radiantlightphotography25]

Lindsay is a phenomenal photographer AND teacher. If you have attended any of her workshops, well then, you know this. If you haven't -- you are missing out big time :)

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

[@exfoliage]

@lindsayadler, thank you for selflessly sharing your work flow, inspiration, gear and technique with us. Im amazed that six miserable souls felt the need to hit the "thumbs down" button. Humanity never ceases to amaze me. As for the rest of the global creative community, we will continue to support our dear mentor, the great Lindsay Adler.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

You are so so so so so kind to me. I love my job and love to share. xo Thank you!

[@exfoliage]

@@lindsayadlerphoto AbsoluteLee.

[@aznoy]

Lindsay you are my favorite as I dig more into your videos.

[@i.destiny]

This is amazing! Doing a forest inspired studio video shoot and needed some help. You explained everything so simply!

[@amv7m]

That second shot is truly stunning. I love the overall vibe of it.

[@daniaahmad4015]

I got this beautiful oil painting like fabric...I knew I could use it as a background some how....this video really inspired me to plan something using the techniques shared in this video...thank you Lindsey!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

You are welcome!

[@kinjilow]

Thanks for showing how you deconstructed this image. Your beauty portraits are so inspiring :)

[@alinaciobanuphotography866]

I love everything about Photo Deconstruction!

[@josephchan4198]

Amazing work.

[@f0t0b0y]

5:31 😍 Canon Raw image. Wait, back up, you crushed this image. Bravo on a truly gorgeous shot. 👏🏼 You can't beat that Canon WB.

[@longliveclassicmusic]

f0t0b0y I shoot and love Canon, but this has nothing to with Canon white balance or color science. Lindsay always shoots with a ColorChecker Passport a hundred percent of the time and gray card for custom color profiles and custom white balance, so either the “original” raw file is shown with Lightroom's default Adobe Color before being altered (unlikely, she probably included the custom color profile as a part of the SOOC) or it is with the custom color profile from her ColorChecker. Canon has stunning color processing for it JPEG's and video compared to other brands, but it's still not good enough by itself for photographers like Lindsay who have color so central to their work.

[@petermarquez4527]

Love your work great to see your creative vision

[@waveswoodstudiojustinryan3014]

Love it! Thanks Lindsay for sharing and going into detail on your process- perfect bts video!

[@tizianomora]

Great shot and great tutorial... What can I say, I'm falling in love! ☺️

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

xo

[@reynaldomercado]

Nice...! I follow a lot of photographers on the web, to learn and compare diferents ways to create an image. I follow some Bad Boy style guys, some Hippie girl, others funny, some extremely serios guys, etc, etc,...but your are the one that i can't define with certain. It's like there is left and right and your are in the middle...i really admire your work.Thanks!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Hahahahah. I'm just a strong, smart, passionate woman. :D lol.

[@jdc2126]

You're are so inspiring. Looking forward to more videos!

[@sharonwinter-schorr7122]

Awesome presentation! Instructive and inspiring.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

:D

[@mikewall827]

I have wanting to try a canvas backdrop of a more real scene than just colour tones. Great instructional video,and it's all there!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

[@gregautryphoto]

Fun Vid..Thanks Lindsay

[@theatifaks]

Love you work. You have superb teaching skills. Thanks for sharing the thoughts and techniques of making this masterpiece.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

My pleasure!

[@Widlomaa]

i just LOVE this, you're just amazing!! Please do a tutorial on the after editing too!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

The editing was very minor. I have retouching classes on CreativeLIVE and learnwithlindsay.com

[@carlosread5887]

Excellent! Inspirational!

[@1987heloisa]

You’re awesome!!! Thanks for sharing! ❤️

[@1Noizeemama]

I keep focusing on that beautiful dress/top and how well it matches your lipstick. :)

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

ahahahah. thanks. :D

[@beingelmo]

Wow, this is amazing! Love this. Please do more.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

I plan to! :D

[@Megaabhijitdas]

Thanks for the tutorial. I am curious to know how you changed the eye, it is so realistic. Please make a tutorial for stuff like that if possible.

[@edumerloph]

Excelent video! Keep doing these deconstructions!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

More to come!!

[@edumendes1965]

Really inspiring!! Love it!!

[@tommys6126]

Great video as always , and great photo's love what you did with the eye would never of thought of that, helps make the shot. Keep thee's video's coming looking forward to the next one, love your work.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

[@RS5Nola]

Thank you so much for doing these videos.

[@pangeotv]

Excellent ! Brava. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@IrisNelson]

Thank you so much for sharing this, Lindsay. Amazing what you can do with a little inspiration.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

xo Glad you enjoyed it!

[@3unee]

Love your work: been following you for years. Thanks for sharing your experience, especially BTS.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Thank you and I'm so glad you enjoy!

[@rustypadlock5129]

Tony and Chelsey brought me here. Great channel by the way.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Awesome! And thank you!

[@cashino]

Great Lindsay, I liked both of them. I've got a few backdrops & I now need to get my props game up. Thanks for the inspiration :-)

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

You are so welcome! xo

[@andreak4280]

👉🏼 💪🏼💪🏼 🌟fabulous!🌟 👌🏼

[@steveroberts6565]

Best breakdowns of photos I’ve seen on KZbin. Excellent. But I have one question. What are your ratios between each light? Thanks

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

T'hank you so much! I don't recall the ratios off hand right now. ;\

[@rogeriopbo]

Amazing deconstruction as always. I'm learning a lot!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

That's why I share. Great to hear.

[@MSmatt76]

Fantastic

[@retoanca]

Thank you for sharing and as always great job!

[@toddmcvey4818]

Hi Lindsay. Thank you for allowing us to see what you do behind the scenes. Also, great call on the eye size. If I may ask, what was the cost on the background roughly and can you suggest a printer in the NYC area? Thank you. Todd

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Duggals is a great printer. I used a Canon Pro 4000. Unique Photo in NJ also prints large prints. Cost if you own the printer is under $100.

[@toddmcvey4818]

@@lindsayadlerphoto Thank you so much for getting back to me. I appreciate it!

[@simianinc]

Hi Lindsay, thanks for this. I can guess your audience has a range of experience and skills. Some may be learning lighting, some may not be so familiar with Photoshop. I'm curious about what's unique amongst the many photography videos on the channels I follow on KZbin - the canvas print. My printer's maximum size is A3, so I'm always curious about large prints. If you get a chance, are you able to introduce us to very large printers, the media the can print to, and how you source canvas? To us small photographers this is a whole world we're most likely not to have encountered before

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Hi there! Many local camera stores or labs print images this large. For example, I know that Unique Photo in NJ does. You'll have to check locally to you. If you want to print it yourself, the printer is a Canon Pro 4000 (large format printer)

[@krbenoit]

Loved the video! Great to see Capture One on the tethered laptop. I’ve only seen you use Lightroom in other tutorials, glad to see you with the better tool here!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

lol Thats what you take away from this? Honestly either tool gets just about the same job done. It really doesn't matter. Just Capture tends to be more stable during tethering.

[@krbenoit]

Of course I loved the creative aspect most all, the atmosphere you create with the CTO and plants is amazing. The color adjustments are really important here too though, as you showed so clearly in the video, and I have been finding the sort of color grading and adjustment (for instance in your Creative Live video on that) much easier to do in C1 than in LR with the ability to do more of that without Photoshop. Would love to see a bit more of the details about how you adjusted the raw images color and exposure in the next Deconstructing video.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

@@krbenoit Color grading really is fundamentally the same in Lightroom. just fyi. I wish that Lightroom were a bit more stable. But either product gets the color grading job done.

[@baptrutko5538]

Thanks for uploading this Lindsay ! Definitely inspiring material - Keep doing that : ) I subscribed !

[@TaoNeko]

Thank you for the inspiration!

[@JulieLandrieu]

Yeay, inspiration! :-) Thank you!

[@claudelaramee9556]

Thanks so much ! Serious work and inspiration here !! Just a suggestion... have you consider using a microphone to improve the audio ?

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

I'll look into it... it may be in the editing process-- I did in fact use a mic (its just out of frame)

[@cosmo0080]

hi, Lindsay i do not know what your definition of large, medium umbrella is ? could u give the numbers please also what cto are u working with ? thank you for the video

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Please see Profoto website for specs... I used large/medium based on their deep umbrellas. CTO was 1/2 stop

[@cosmo0080]

@@lindsayadlerphoto thank you

[@michaelverity5965]

Will you please share light settings? I see you had the camera at f11. Thank you!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

You mean 'f-stops'-- don't have it recorded for each as I adjusted throughout.

[@yannisger]

amazing

[@JDenim88]

Hi. Love these videos by the way. You said you Popped the highlights in the first image breakdown. Did you do that using a curve in capture one?

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Doesn't particularly matter, but I believe I dragged in the highlights levels 'bar' in Capture.

[@JDenim88]

Lindsay Adler Photography oh okay. You right many was to skin a cat.

[@MiLaKreativ]

Thank you, very interesting and educational for me!

[@photorekastudio8528]

Great!

[@andrebainha2350]

Love

[@colinjudge1261]

Really interesting to see your whole process. I love how you trust your instinct for what you think will make the image become what you have in your imagination, my favourite being how you manipulated the eye. I know some photographers who make a whole style around adding a touch of the surreal to their images in post processing, but I really admire your ability to have it as part of your toolkit and use it for those rare moments where you know it will enhance your vision. On a side note, having used both the 5Div and the R, what are the things that drew you back to the 5Div? Thanks!

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

I use both the 5dIV and the Eos R. I tend to use the 5Div when huge files aren't necessary-- makes file management and tethering easier. I use the R when I need a ton of info.

[@colinjudge1261]

Lindsay Adler Photography Don’t the 5Div and Eos R have the same file size? (I’m referring to the Mirrorless camera, not the 5Dsr)

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

@@colinjudge1261 Oh gotcha. I use the EOS R outdoors or with narrow depth of field. 5DIv in studio.

[@colinjudge1261]

Lindsay Adler Photography right tool for the right job :) Anyway, looking forward to seeing more videos!

[@IRG_fotografia]

You are the best....

[@AmishElvis1]

I have a request - please do a review on the poses found in the new Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Sorry, I don't critique people's work without being asked by them. I think its impolite.

[@jeffreyrosenberg7765]

What program do you tether into?

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

CaptureOne or Lightroom. In this case it was Capture I believe.

[@mindblowing3202]

awesome, I´ll try this at home :-)

[@nmelcam1]

My actual inspiration is called Lindsey Adler, seeing you so selflessly helping other photographers, inspires me to help other photographers that are starting. If I see a local photographer that needs help, instead of bashing them like some other photographers I've seen do on Facebook or Insta, I try to reach out to them in a private message and just say "Hey I like your photos, but have you tied this or that?" Most of the times, they appreciate the tip. Just today I met a photographer that I have on Facebook for years in an outdoor event and noticed her images always tend to be underexposed, I told her to verify her cameras display setting and as I imagined they her high. I told her that since the displays brightness is set to high, when she look at the photos on camera they would look fine, but it was because the bright display was illuminating the underexposed images, since she does not do any processing yet, I told her to lower the display to the middle of the onscreen bar or just one tick lower than the middle , and with that tip alone her images started to look better. Now she has to learn post processing, she does take images in Manual and Raw so she's off to a good start :-)

[@lindsayadlerphoto]

Thank you for the kind words! I try to help as much as I can. There's enough creativity and spotlight out there for all of us to have. :D

[@jimbolic0809]

Fun!!!

[@KayAtanGod]

I definitely love you

[@romiemiller3093]

Using a physical background saves a lot of work and headaches aver trying to mask all that wild hair with a composite.