“The Making Of” Creating Monochrome Masterpieces is an outstanding video produced by award winning photographer Simon Plant. During this video training, Simon takes you, step by step, through the image creation process. Some of the many topics covered in this training video include:

• Simple Lighting with Flashguns
• Simple Camera Set Up
• Selective Sharpening
• Coloring With Gradient Maps
• Masking & Refining the Mask
• Retouching Awkward Shadows

“The Making Of” Creating Monochrome Masterpieces is a 3-part video covering the pre-shoot set-up, on-camera settings, and post production Adobe Photoshop techniques. Over 2 Hours of High Quality Quicktime Movies To Download.

About Simon Plant

“At the age of 19, I borrowed my father’s camera and traveled around Greece.
This was the very beginning of my interest in photography. It was around 1989, that I came across the photographic work of John Claridge, a world-renowned advertising photographer. His work had a very big impact on me and ultimately inspired me to make photography my Career.

In 1990 I started up my own photographic business doing advertising work, and shortly afterwards I received my first big break shooting Lifestyle images on location for Clark’s shoes.

Over the years I have photographed a range of people – from heads of Industry to TV celebrities. I have also travelled to many locations that would normally have been inaccessible if it were not for my camera.

During this time I also shot many productions for stock with my work being sold worldwide for advertising & publishing.

2005 saw me change direction and shoot less people based work and concentrate on shooting locations & cars (another passion of mine). Constantly exploring new imaging technologies and developing new techniques I became one of the first car photographers in the UK shooting specialist HDR images for the CGI Rendering of cars.

In more recent years I started to sell my work through several galleries to cater for an interest that has grown for my work as fine art and also launched Simon Plant Photographic Fine Art as an online outlet. A long standing desire to self publish my work led to the idea of providing Digital Photography Tutorials and videos of my shoots and in August 2008 ProPhotoInsights was launched.

In the months that followed the launch PPI took off and videos where being used by several Photographic magazines and being viewed worldwide.Both individuals & Universities have purchased our HD Extended videos and snippets are also used for advertising. With a friendly forum and a worldwide membership growing each day PPI has quickly risen from it’s hazy beginnings

My work has won many awards and been featured in all the major photographic press in the U.K. and been commissioned and published by many Nationally and Internationally known clients worldwide.”

A small selection includes….

* AOL
* American Airlines
* Bank Of England
* British Airways
* Clarks Shoes
* Delta Airlines
* Enviroment Agency
* Hallmark
* Headworx Clothing
* IBM
* Microsoft Multimedia Publishing
* Minnesota Orchestra
* National Geographic.
* National Rivers Authority
* Orange
* Oxford University Press
* Severn Trent Water
* Time Magazine Online
* Welsh Tourist Board