Cold climates
in Photography Techniques | 0 commentsWhen 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...
Read MoreNight Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
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...
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Read MoreExposing to the right
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. Film In the days of film, I used to consistently under-expose by half a stop because the slide would retain more colours and so the resulting image would have a richer saturation. Digital With digital images, it was commonly practiced to boost...
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Create 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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