So far you’ve read countless articles on techniques that involve editing portraits, but mostly it involves one or two techniques which makes it hard to see the whole picture, not that they aren’t good resources to learn from, quite the contrary. That is why in these two articles I’ll edit a portrait from my latest […]
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Shadow recovery has always been a bit of delicate balancing act. Too little and you see no benefits, too much and not only can the image look unnatural but also there is an increased risk of introducing excessive noise to your shot. Fortunately with modern software such as Photoshop and Lightroom, there are multiple ways […]
We all love the movies. It’s not only the feel of sitting in a cinema watching on a big screen, it’s the skill of the director and cinematographers to draw you into the film. They make you part of it. One of the biggest elements in creating this feel is what film-makers call grading. This […]
What we know today as the process of photography had its start at the beginning of the 19th century. Back then, the process was really complicated. For almost a century following its inception, photography was done strictly in black-and-white, which feature still has an impact on photography nowadays. Creating a black-and-white photo is surprisingly easy. […]
Have you ever opened your RAW files to see that they lack contrast and saturation? This happens due to the fact that the camera doesn’t apply any settings to the photo. On the contrary, it just packs all the data that the sensor captured into one file for you to deal with, later on. In fact, by […]
In the days of analogue photography, it was a necessity to use a filter in order to achieve a quality deep-blue sky. The filter types varied depending on the lens and the type of film, but a graduated neutral density filter was usually the filter of choice. Nowadays, with digital photography, you have three choices: Use a neutral […]
