- What photos are taken on location.
- Which photos are selected and why.
- How all photos are brought into Photoshop and prepared.
- Layer ordering/reasoning.
- Basic photo correction and adjustments.
- Advanced selection and masking techniques.
- Compositing external lighting layers and blending modes.
- Creating fake motion on background and wheel spin.
- Special FX and atmospheric layers.
- Preparing finished photo for export and upload.
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In Advanced Color Grading Pepper Yandell will provide a FULL breakdown of all of the various color grading techniques he’s developed over his photography career. Every photo, location, and car provides very unique challenges and requires different methods. Several different photos with different cars will be color graded from start to finish to ensure whoever attends/watches this class will walk away with a solid understanding of how to handle a wide range of situations.
What you can expect to learn in this class:
- Basic color adjustment methods in Photoshop.
- How to handle low light night time shots vs natural light sunlight shots.
- Working with black/white cars vs working with brightly colored cars.
- Advanced paint correction/masking.
- Hand brushing/painting over body panels using advanced masking techniques.
- Removing extremely difficult reflections/specular highlights.
- Optimizing colors for web usage.
- Advanced adjustment layers and blending modes and proper layer order.
- Final FX touches and Photoshop + Lightroom workflow.
- Preparing photos for upload.
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You can experience a brand new class format in The One Light Method! The first half of the 4 hour class was pre-recorded on location, during an actual photoshoot at the famous Gas Monkey Garage with their brand new Datsun build. Pepper Yandell goes over the different levels/budgets of lighting equipment, explains the pros and cons of all, and gives you a real world application of the various features such as TTL and High-Speed Sync and their uses on location.
After the recorded photoshoot video plays, Pepper will switch to a live stream to review and edit all of the images shot during the recording while teaching the best techniques and methods when it comes to blending one light for a smooth final result. A finished .PSD will be provided for you to download and review at your own pace after the class, as well as a comparison chart of a select group of lighting equipment.
What you can expect to learn:
- The pros and cons to using different levels of lighting equipment (speedlite, AlienBees, Profoto B1)
- The purpose and importance of every piece of equipment needed to use the one light method.
- Learn the limitations and expectations to set when working with various clients on location.
- How to examine the car and location and develop a plan for lighting the car.
- Working with an assistant vs. shooting by yourself with a WiFi remote.
- The differences between shooting and lighting cars indoors vs. outdoors.
- How to properly build your final image in Photoshop with the base and lighting layers.
- Creative techniques for blending the light layers together in Photoshop.
- Delivering a final image, and an overview of the .PSD that’s included for download with the class.
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In LiveClass 03 // Full Automotive Composites Pepper Yandell goes in-depth on what shaped and started his photography career; full motion composites. Every shoot provides different and unique challenges, and sometimes that means being severely limited on where you can shoot your subject. These limitations shouldn’t restrict your creative vision, and no longer have to.
This 3 hour long class will contain a full re-edit of Pepper Yandell’s iconic Gas Monkey Garage F40 tunnel photo, and a review of the Liberty Walk Aventador in Vegas composite. What you can expect to learn in this class:
- What it takes to plan a full composite, considering the car’s qualities, desired location, etc.
- Equipment and tools needed for creating consistently realistic results.
- The best camera settings to use during the car shoot.
- How to shoot a backplate to be used for your composite.
- How to properly place the car in the scene in Photoshop.
- Different methods for lighting the car to fit within your backplate
- Recreating a shadow.
- Creating motion on your backplate.
- Different techniques for spinning your wheels, in person and in post.
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The first section of this LiveClass was pre-recorded on location at Dubai Autodrome, where you can watch Pepper Yandell walk through in detail how to shoot black cars with LiveClass 05 // How to Shoot Black Cars! You will see Pepper working with both a satin black Lamborghini Aventador and all gloss black Lamborghini Huracan, both inside a busy dark garage, and then also outside. Due to the variations of cars, locations, and lighting scenarios presented in this class you will walk away with confidence and valuable knowledge required to effectively shoot one of the most difficult color of cars, black.
After the recorded photoshoot video plays, Pepper will switch to a live stream to review and edit all of the images shot during the recording while teaching the best techniques and methods when it comes to editing black car photos.
What you can expect to learn:
- Best equipment to use and how to use it when it comes to shooting black cars.
- The differences of working with a gloss black and satin black car.
- Best practices when it comes to positioning a gloss or satin black car in terms of working with available lighting.
- Working with difficult reflection locations such a busy garage, and tricks for accentuating body panels of a black car.
- Layering multiple polarized photos of a black car and techniques for masking and blending them for a crisp outcome in Photoshop.
- Specific body panel selections, reflection removal, repainting techniques, and techniques for accentuating dark or hidden body lines on a black car.
- Photoshop techniques for getting a black car to pop from the background.
- Best practices for delivering a clean final image to your client.
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In The Secret Sauce Pepper Yandell will provide a step by step walkthrough of the various techniques and methods he’s developed over the past 9 years to easily and effectively add a drastic amount of “eye-catching” qualities to your car images. Take a normal location and setup and deliver an astounding hero image. All of the techniques taught can be used in every photo and any situation to get that next level pop of “Secret Sauce” in your work!
What you can expect to learn in this class:
- How to make the ultimate “hero image”.
- Replacing and modifying backgrounds in difficult situations.
- How to create dramatic and moody scenes within a bland location.
- Learn the ideal order/arrangement of Adjustment Layers to add depth and visual appeal.
- Shaping the scene’s lighting and car’s body with selective brushing.
- Effectively and realistically adding eye-catching atmospheric elements.
- Creating reflections to match new backgrounds and elements.
- Quick and easy color grading techniques to match the dramatic look and feel.
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A collection of 4 hours worth of content! These 14 different videos were captured on location at 14 different shoots with Pepper Yandell. Every shoot presents its own unique challenges and opportunities, and these “mini classes” give further insight into how to best tackle those challenges and capitalize on the opportunities.
Videos included in the Digital Assistant library you can immediately stream and/or download:
- How to Lightpaint
- Use your Environment
- Shooting at Night
- Make People Disappear
- Bracketing: A to Z
- Head on Shooting
- Time for a Closeup
- Shooting 2 Cars
- Guerilla Shooting
- Mixing Motion
- The Boss
- Exhaust System
- Shadow Play
- Lighting Metallic
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The first pack of fully custom automotive-tailored Lightroom Presets ever available. Pepper Yandell has gone through hundreds of his own photos, both RAW images and finished Photoshop files to develop these 60 hand-built presets.
What makes these presets specific to Automotive? The current preset market is filled with skin tone specific presets that are too broad-stroke to handle automotive photography. This preset pack comes with 5 unique Pepper Yandell styles: “Arctic”, “Drama”, “High Key”, “Radioactive”, and “Sahara”. Each one of these styles is then finely tuned for the 6 main colors that all cars come in (Black/White/Gray, Blue, Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow) and then there’s a DAY and NIGHT version of each of those 30 presets, providing a total of 60 presets for every shoot situation and car color possible.
Every single one of these presets provides two unique and effortlessly powerful effects to your workflow.
- By applying these tailored presets to your RAW photos straight from camera images in Lightroom you’re able to instantly achieve a strong stylistic result that won’t destroy the color of the subject car, no matter the situation. Allowing yourself to quickly move through an entire photo set that doesn’t require a commercial style or Photoshop results.
- If you’ve followed any of Pepper Yandell’s LiveClasses, there’s a good chance you’re also creating finely tuned and precise images in Photoshop. By applying these tailored presets to your finished PSD file in Lightroom, you can instantly add a strong touch of Pepper’s color and lighting style to your finished PSD.
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Taking presets to a new level. Achieve commercial-grade, fully layered PSD edits at the click of a button with Pepper’s Photoshop Actions. Edit full sets in minutes. NOTE: These Presets require Photoshop CC!
See Pepper Yandell edit an entire photoshoot using only these Photoshop Presets in the video included in the download link, and see how quickly you can turn around an entire commercial shoot in a matter of minutes rather than hours. Spend more time on location and less time behind the computer.
- 30 meticulously built Photoshop Presets from Pepper Yandell
- 5 unique styles: Punch, Crucial, Golden, Menace, and Retro. Each finely tuned for 6 different colors of vehicles for every lighting situation
- Easily adjusted with just two sliders after applying the Action to your photo
- Includes a 30 minute introduction tutorial video, and a 5 minute advanced usage tutorial video
- Takes 0 Photoshop experience to achieve a commercial grade edit in seconds, a new level of presets.
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Pepper Yandell has built these 176 gradient maps throughout his entire 9-year automotive photography career through thousands of car shoots and trial and error. Now they’re available to you at the click of a button. Within seconds you can switch through all of these hand-built gradient maps to find the perfect finishing look for your edit.
Click the button below to download the gradient map pack and instructions on how to install. For a full 3-hour overview on how to utilize and tweak these gradient maps and MANY other color grading techniques be sure to view the Advanced Color Grading class above.
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