Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Cliché saisi avec leur autorisation au moment où ils se faisaient un autoportrait officiel de mariage.
Les jeunes mariés reçoivent un certificat de mariage (qui se présente tel un passeport).
La photographie du couple au jour de la réception de ce document est très significative culturellement, notamment en province.
Leur ami photographe s'étant excusé,
ils étaient très heureux et touchés de recevoir cette photographie dans un cadre officiel (sous l'égide de la municipalité).
Nous sommes restés en contact depuis ce jour.
Mars 2025, Chengdu préfecture du Sichuan, Su-Ouest de la Chine continentale
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Mars 2025, Chengdu préfecture du Sichuan, Su-Ouest de la Chine continentale
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I’ve started work on a portrait project which is, let’s just say not insignificant, in its scope… because if I think about it too much, I realise it’s quite the crazy undertaking! So, while I was planning this out, I had to think about how my workflow might work. How do I make things as easy on myself as possible and keep the creativity as the priority, keeping the “how” out of the way as much as I can. I played with a few tools for a while and have now settled on Aperty.
Why Aperty? It was clear to me from early on in the testing that my normal tools, like Lightroom and Luminar, which I use A LOT, offer great processing but Aperty and its focus on portraits, offers a slicker workflow and quicker almost one click solutions.
Some of the more practical example use cases is wrinkles. 2 button clicks to apply some sympathetic tweaks to the image. In some cases, the wrinkles disappear, in others the harshness is reduced.
Now, don’t get me wrong… if transforming your models into smooth skinned alienlike creatures is your style, that’s possible too… but for more terrestrial based portraits, the tweaks applied by Aperty in just a few clicks feel appropriate, never overdone. Just a couple of button clicks for some natural results.
This being Skylum there are of course some fun additions to the normal options available too. You can for example have the software add some eyeliner to your model, or tweak their iris color as just two examples but that’s something for another day.
For now, what I see from Aperty is a great tool for anyone working on people pictures. The tools flow in a really nice, logical way for a processing work and a lot of the clutter you’d find in more general processing applications doesn’t feature here. Yet you can still do great environmental portraits too, as seen here… oh, and one more thing. You can grab Aperty for a 50% discount (link in the comments), plus a bonus month on the subscription and a bunch of extras. Have fun!
Sichuan Airlines Airbus A330-200F on finals to land at Frankfurt airport, Germany.
