Innovation News; In conversation With David Osborn
We Spoke to Photoshop Extaordinaire, David Osborn about his images, what makes a good photograph and his new Photoshop workshops If you visited the Innova Art stand at FESPA in May, or have seen some pictures from the show, you may have noticed some impressive city scenes printed large scale on the stand. These images, from various locations worldwide were created by the London based photographer David Osborn. David has amazing talent with a camera, but, to create images that take your breath away: he utilizes a wide range of Photoshop techniques. We sat down with him to find out more; Hi David,we had some great reactions to your images on the FESPA stand and would love to learn more about you, your work and your process. To start us off can you tell us how you choose the subjects of your images? My Images are all a mixture of personal work, commissions and images from the workshops I run. I like very clean compositions and for black and white, a real feeling of mood. Black and White allows for much darker moodier images that are my passion. In my personal and workshop work, I love silky smooth tones in the sky and rich shadow detail. Edinburgh by David Osborn When you take an image into Photoshop, do you start with a predetermined plan or does the final image evolve as you work? You have to have an idea of what you are aiming for. There is an element of the unknown always in the creative, but you do need to have a game plan of what you want the image to look like. As you work on the image you create the [...]
