Cold climates
When you are taking your camera into cold conditions, it will be wise to follow a few simple precautions to protect you and your gear. Feet One of the most important thing to protect! They are, after all, what is going to get you out of potential danger. You need to think about protecting them first and foremost. Cold climates can present several different dangers to feet. The first is cold. It is important to keep your feet warm and dry as possible. It is worth investing in strong hiking boots which have good waterproof qualities. If you can, finger a bit of waterproof wax around all the...
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Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
Posted by Tony on Nov 27, 2009
in Photography Techniques | 6 comments
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...
Read MoreAdvanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
in Photoshop Techniques | 2 commentsThis 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. The first step is to prepare your image. Black and white has a higher dynamic range than colour so it may be advisable to create a HDR from multiple exposures or even tonemap a single...
Read MorePhotoshop basics – simple colour correction
This is a quick and simple technique for correcting the colour of an image in photoshop. It is not always successful and will not give you the desired results 100% of the time. But as it is quick and easy it is definitely one to try first. My picture of Goðafoss has a dictinct blue cast. It was taken in low light and this is a common problem as my canon couldn’t really see well enough to decide on an appropriate white balance. I could have corrected this at the RAW stage, but for the benefit of this tutorial, I burned it as it came out of the camera. Duplicate the layer. Then apply an...
Read MoreCreate a photoshop action – Colour boost
This tutorial offers an alternative to the saturation option when you wish to dramatically boost the colours in an image. We will make a photoshop action for this colour boosting technique so that it can be applied easily to any image in the future. More information about creating an action can be found here. The first step is to create a folder for your action. You can call it what you want, I have called it ‘ColourBoost’. Give the first step a logical name and start recording. LAB Convert your image to LAB mode. LAB means there are three channels L=lightness and two colour...
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