Photography techniques – Hyperfocal distance
Hyperfocal distance is the art in photography of achieving as much sharpness as possible throughout the image. In other words, it involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus, but more accurately, the hyperfocal distance is that point of focus where things are in focus from a point half way between you and the focal point all the way onward to infinity. Hyper-focal distance is more of a landscape photographer’s concept. When shooting landscapes, I never use auto-focus. Although the Hyperfocal...
Read MorePhotoshop Basics – noise reduction
No camera is perfect. If we push it to the limits of iso and low-light scenes, we are going to experience the number one weakness of a digital camera – NOISE. In camera noise control When you use the long exposure noise reduction setting on a D-SLR, it takes the same shot with the shutter closed and then takes the information away from the original exposure. This is why you will have to wait the same amount of time again after taking the shot this can be an inconvenience if you want to keep shooting. You can save this time and do this yourself with photoshop or similar photo editor. If...
Read MoreHDR4 – Photoshop enhancements
HDR4 – Photoshop enhancements 1) The first tutorial shows you how to fix strange HDR artefacts by using an original exposure as a selection aid and then using the clone tool to correct problems. Video Tutorial 2)The next tutorial shows you how to fix HDR generated problem with an original exposure. Problems such as ghosting or halos. Video Tutorial 3)The third tutorial show you how to give the effect of using a graduated filter and reducing unwanted colour hues, by using layers, masks and adjusting the curves. Video Tutorial 4)The last video tutorial involves cleaning up the image ready...
Read MoreHDR3 – Photomatix Engineering
HDR2 – Photomatix Engineering Click below to load an interactive flash tutorial covering the generation of an HDR image… Tonemapping with Photomatix Using the photomatix software to generate an HDR image. Please tell me what you think?? Tours Experience this yourself with one of my Photography Tours
Read MoreLayers and Masks 2 – Adjustment Layers
Layers and Masks 2 – Adjustment Layers Adjustment layers do just that, they allow you to make adjustments to your images in a stack of layers. This has two benefits to the way you might normally adjust a picture; You can go back and change any part of you adjustment, i.e. the curves or levels You can use masks to affect only certain parts of the image. Let us start with an image and create an adjustment layer. This will create a new layer with the sole purpose of adjusting the light levels of the image. See Basic adjustments – levels and curves for more details of how to make...
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