Mike – Intensify and Tonality I use a lot, and Noiseless I’ll use on old images to clean up. Sometimes I’ll flip a shot into black and white and Tonality really punches up that photo faster than I could do on my own.
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I don’t do too much to my shots other than stamping out skin blemishes, sweat stains, and balancing color in RAW, but after that I typically use a combination of the Detail Enhancement filters and Denoise in Intensify to give them that kiss of editing to ensure they look better than they normally do, without feeling overdone. Liezl – I primarily use Intensify to tweak my photos. What Macphun tools have you used and how have those affected your personal style? Also, I’ve already proven myself to be a comedy fan based on the thousands of photos I’ve taken of shows. My parents instilled in me a workhorse ethic, and I picked up professionalism from working in an office environment, but I’m also easy to work with. I guess I’m still doing it years later due to a combination of things. Eventually UCB and comedians would tip me off to their shows, and I would drop in to shoot them. I guess from there what I was doing caught on. It was a niche online home for a very specific group of comedy fans, but also comedians. Which, at the time, would sometimes be around 3 shows a week.Īs I learned, I started sharing my photo recaps on the comedy message board, A Special Thing.
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Having only previously used film in high school and college, I decided to learn how to use it by shooting every single show I attended. At the same time, the office I work in bought a DSLR camera: the simple Canon Rebel XT paired with a 50mm f/1.4. At $5 or $10 a show, it was cheap entertainment. When I moved up to LA around 2007, my roommate told me about The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Liezl, how did you get involved in photographing comedians and celebrities? The cast reunion of MTV’s The State rehearsing before Festival Supreme in 2014. Working in partnership with Macphun Creative Kit 2016, we also wanted to know how each of them have used Macphun photo apps in their workflow to enhance their images. We caught up with them to find out how they got to be where they are today and what makes their photography so spectacular. Though their routes differed, for each of them it was a path that would ultimately lead to some pretty amazing opportunities to photograph some incredible people. I excelled at it and it was lots of fun,” he says. “That was it,” he explains, “I bought my first SLR and took some classes at the local community college. After high school, he started shooting still photography and loved the versatility of composition and the fact that he could turn the camera vertically. “I think that foundational thought probably influenced the way I look at things and filter shots.”įor Mike, he got started in junior high with cinematography when he took a cinema class. “In high school I was taught to search for that interesting thing in even the most mundane of scenes,” Liezl explains. For Liezl, she started taking images as a Freshman in high school and then again as a prerequisite to her BFA in Graphic Design in college. From Liezl’s backstage access to some of the funniest people on Earth to Mike’s set photography on some of TV’s most popular shows, there is a lot to envy – and a lot to learn.īoth of these charismatic souls started out nurturing their photographic curiosity early on. Portrait Photographers Liezl Estipona and Mike Kubeisy have photographed a few faces that you are sure to know. Tompkins (No You Shut Up! and Comedy Bang Bang) and Thomas Lennon (MTV’s The State, Reno 911!, Odd Couple) from the podcast, Dead Authors, performed at SF Sketchfest 2013.
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