Photography Basics – photography as communication
Photography is all about communication. Communicating a scene or an object is similar to communicating in writing. It makes more sense if there is an order. Sentence take if we a word up jumble… Sorry, if we take a sentence and jumble the words up, it has the same contents, but the meaning is lost. At the other extreme a poet can arrange the words to provoke feelings and thoughts outside of the sentence. In a visual way a photographer has to arrange the subjects/ objects in a scene so that they make sense, and artists will arrange object/ subjects in a scene to provoke...
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 MoreWhich DSRL should I buy?
This site is all about creating great images from a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex camera). So what should you look for if you are buying one? The question is very pertinent as there are a lot of very good DSLRs on the market these days. Ten years ago, it wasn’t even worth buying the best DSLR because the quality didn’t compare to film. But in many ways, digital technology has surpassed film. The big names are always worth looking at; Canon, Nikon, Olympus etc, but because this is now a digital market, some new names are making a mark in the camera world, such as Sony and...
Read MoreInspiration
Hello Readers This post is going to be pure waffle… you have been warned! Question one: It makes me wonder sometimes why do I enjoy taking and making pictures so much, I don’t do it for the money, so what exactly do I get out of it? It all started when I moved to Iceland five years ago. I came to Iceland for many reasons, many of which have faded, but in some ways photography has kept me here longer than I should have been. The nature here is very unforgiving at times and very generous at other times… just like the people I suppose. It was the Aurora Borealis or Northern...
Read MoreHDR2 – 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
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