If you have been anywhere near the photography world in the past couple years, I am sure you have heard of HDR by now as there have been countless tutorials floating around on how to create HDR images using 3 bracketed exposures in programs like Photomatix and Photoshop. However what if you don’t have yourContinue reading “Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom”
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15 Tips for Low Light Landscape Photography
Capturing scenes in low light remains one of the most challenging aspects of photography, yet the results when executed well can be truly captivating. Whether it’s an energetic cityscape or ethereal seascape the possibilities are endless. Here are a few essentials points to consider before you begin. 15 Tips for Low Light Landscape Photography
Black & White in Photoshop Elements
At the last meeting I demonstrated the use of the Enhance > Convert to Black and White… tool for converting images to black and white. While this tool is still a perfectly acceptable way of doing this, I have since discovered this tutorial that uses a different, in many ways better technique for this. IfContinue reading “Black & White in Photoshop Elements”
How to Use Textures to Enhance Your Photographs
Images with textures applied are not something we’ve seen much of in club competitions and I submitted this image Ancient Eyes in November as an experiment to see how it would be received. I was surprised at how well it fared, getting the highest score and winning the open section. Given this interest I thoughtContinue reading “How to Use Textures to Enhance Your Photographs”
Tips on Early Morning Photography
Tips on Early Morning Photography A Digital Photography School guest post by Simon Davidson who is from Stellenbosch. Nice to see local people featuring on prominent blogs. The photograph above comes from Simon’s own web site at http://www.simondavo.com. As all photographers know, there are two times of day when the light is most idealContinue reading “Tips on Early Morning Photography”
Get Pro Results with a Compact Camera
Here’s tip #1: When shooting indoors in low light, you actually can get pro results with your compact camera . . . but you have to make pictures rather than simply take pictures. Rick Sammon: Get Pro Results with a Compact Camera
A Digital Dog Tag for Your Lost Camera
Recovering your camera after losing it is one of those things that most people don’t really think about until the situation actually arises. If you were to lose your camera today, would anyone be able to return it to you? A Digital Dog Tag for Your Lost Camera
The ISO Advantage
How to use the excellent high-ISO performance of today’s cameras I recently returned from photographing brown bears along the Katmai coast of Alaska. I was leading a workshop for Photo Quest Adventures, and we had more than 20 bears at a time on the beach. I’ve been returning to the same area for more thanContinue reading “The ISO Advantage”
ND Filter Tip: Creating Special Effects
Using ND Filter to create special effects In this article, I will discuss on an important topic in photography. Although this can be treated as an intermediate to advanced technique, but I will try to keep it as simple as possible making it seem like a piece of cake to all my readers. ND FilterContinue reading “ND Filter Tip: Creating Special Effects”
Photoshop Makeovers
So there you are, taking rather fantastic photos, and then, one day, you realise that everyone else seems to be getting better results. Unfair? Possibly. Or perhaps they’re just handier in Photoshop. Like my old friend Maxwell. I recently came across three of his photo-shopped portraiture sessions (one, two, three), and was rather impressed.Continue reading “Photoshop Makeovers”
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