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About Lauri Laukkanen

Editor http://portfolio.laurilaukkanen.com/ http://twitter.com/laurilaukkanen
Lauri Laukkanen, is an editorial and commercial photographer, specializing in creative portraiture, fashion and sports photography. People usually describe his style as cinematic, creative and sometimes a tiny bit crazy. He was recently awarded with the WDP 2012: Photographer of the Year -award, and his work has been featured all around the internet, including 1x.com, Vogue etc. View his portfolio here: www.laurilaukkanen.com
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PS: “The New Wave Is Coming” | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of “Tuesdays With Lauri” we do a photoshop breakdown of my latest photograph, titled: “The New Wave Is Coming”. A 5GB PSD-file, 100+ layers and 2,5 weeks of editing, all broken down for you in less than 15 minutes! :)

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BTS, Lighting & PS: “I Bleed Colours” | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of Tuesdays With Lauri, we take a behind the scenes look at my photograph titled “I Bleed Colours” – in the video we also talk about the lighting and go through the Photoshop file, layer by layer.

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Creating Drama Through Cinematic Light | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of Tuesdays With Lauri, I give you guys a short lighting-class, concentrating on creating drama through cinematic lighting techniques.

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Tapping Into The Power of Custom Brushes | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of Tuesdays With Lauri we are going to be talking about custom brushes! In the video I will guide you through the process of creating a new brush, and will discuss about all the different brush options/settings that we can tweak when creating brushes.

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Photoshop: “Realms of Reality” | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of “Tuesdays With Lauri” we take a look at my latest conceptual photograph, titled “Realms of Reality”. We go through the photoshop-file, layer by layer, and along the way I explain some of the decisions I made, while editing.

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BTS: Fashion Shoot at a Bombed Out Church | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s instalment of Tuesdays With Lauri, we take a “behind the scenes” -look at my latest fashion shoot that we organised in a Bombed Out Church in Liverpool, England.

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Editing an underexposed image | Tuesdays With Lauri

In this week’s installment of Tuesdays With Lauri we take a look at how I edited this slightly underexposed image in Photoshop and recovered some much needed detail in the subject’s face and the background.

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The Power of Perspective | Guest Post by Rob Woodcox

I’m not convinced that anyone has their life completely together, in fact I am certain that we all face unwarranted fears, preposterous obstacles, and a good level of doubt about our very own purpose. Thankfully, we have perspective. I want to focus on the powerful properties of perspective that we all posses, whether we’re using them or not.

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Tutorial: “Watchkeeper” | Tuesdays With Lauri

In today’s instalment of “Tuesdays With Lauri”, we are going to be doing something pretty exciting. Instead of editing one of my own photographs, I will be editing one of YOUR photographs. Today’s amazing image was submitted by Veneta Karamfilova, and it looks like this:

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Inspiration: Fashion Zoo Animals by Yago Partal

Yago Partal presents a compelling and fun photo series: Digitally manipulating portraits of various animals, he traded in their natural fur and hide for a more fashionable outfit, ranging from hawaiian shirts and knit sweaters to leather jackets and tuxedos.

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BTS: Candyland | Tuesdays with Lauri

Today we will be taking a look at my photo, titled “Candyland”. We are going to take a look at how the photograph was lit, and then will move on to talk about how we can add some interest into our photographs that were shot in a studio against a “boring” white backdrop, by playing around with the colours, using textures, and creative blurs. Enjoy!

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Tutorial: Compositing in Photoshop pt.3/3

Today we are going to be finishing up our tutorial-series on compositing an image in Photoshop. Today we colour grade the photo using the curves adjustment panel, create a natural looking vignette with the lasso-tool, introduce the “iris-blur” and add some noise in select areas of the image.

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