Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
in Photography Techniques | 6 commentsSo 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 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...
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...
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HDR2 – RAW file treatment
HDR2 – RAW file treatment Click below to load an interactive flash tutorial covering the basic processing of files to be used in an HDR image… HDR RAW Processing Using Adobe Lightroom 2 (LR2) software. Please feedback to let me know what you think. Tours Experience this yourself with one of my Photo Tours home
Read MoreHDR 1 – taking the exposures
HDR 1 – taking the exposures HDR means High Dynamic Range photography. It refers to a method of capturing a larger range of light detail than is possible with a single exposure. This article will look at the technique of multiple exposure capture with a DSLR. Click Highlights and Shadows The idea behind an HDR image is that you are able to retain details in the highlights and in the shadows. On a single exposure, the shadow detail is lost (black) or the highlight detail is blown-out (white). By carefully controlling your exposures, you should be able to prevent losing shadow detail and...
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