‘The best laid plans of mice and men’ as the old adage goes – how many times have you set you camera up to take that spectacular scene in front of you only to realize it could look even better with a filter over your lens? You rummage around your camera bag only to remember […]
Photoshop Articles
If you have been looking to expand your photographic creativity or add a new wrinkle to your repertoire, something you may want to consider is double exposure photography (or multiple exposure photography). Double exposure photography has been around for virtually as long as film cameras have been around — it’s not hard to imagine some […]
Most photographers would agree that whenever possible getting the shot right in camera should be the goal. However, there are going to be times when this is impossible or when mistakes are made. Perhaps there is a distracting element in a scene that just can’t be avoided, or the horizon is a bit crooked in […]
Sharpening your images is a bit of a science and there are quite a few aspects that need to be considered. You can sharpen for printing, for web maybe for display on an iPad. On top of that, different resolution images will need different settings. Combine this with the fact that current incarnations of Photoshop […]
We all have searched the web for ways to accomplish better portrait retouching. There are more methods and programs that people use, all of which have a different look and not one is technically better than another. I use different methods depending on the portrait and look I am going for. Sometimes I use a […]
Of all techniques that have come with the advent of digital photography, perhaps the most controversial and divisive is HDR or high dynamic range. Some people love the surrealistic almost cartoon like quality of extreme HDR, others hate it with a passion, in photographic terms it is on a level with the PC and Mac […]
