Archive for November, 2009
Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
by Tony on Nov.27, 2009, under Photography Techniques
So you have the night photography bug. You sit twiddling your thumbs in the daylight hours waiting for the light to fade so that you can go out and leave your camera perfectly still with its shutter open for many tens of minutes. You are not alone!!
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Products
by Tony on Nov.05, 2009, under Services
I have chosen select high quality suppliers to present these products to you. They can be purchased directly from their on-line stores and they will be delivered to you in the time specified by the supplier.
Exposing to the right
by Tony on Nov.01, 2009, under Photography Techniques
Exposure is a critical element in photography. Until recently it was common practice for landscape photographers to slightly underexpose image to increase highlight detail and increase saturation. But there is a new school of thought which suggests over exposing just short of blowing out the highlights will actually give you a better range of colours.
Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
by Tony on Nov.01, 2009, under Photoshop Techniques
This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may be work-arounds for other versions of photoshop or other image editors, but the work horse in this tutorial is the powerful ‘Black and White Tool’ in CS3 which has a great selection of filter pre-sets. To emulate this without the tool, you could try blending channel levels.