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Photography workshops in Reykjavik

Tony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:05 +0000

These are similar to the tours, but are generally shorter and involve more tuition and less travel.

Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion

Tony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:31:16 +0000

This 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 presets. To emulate this without the tool, you could try blending channel levels.

Photoshop basics – simple colour correction

Tony — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:36:28 +0000

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.

Create a photoshop action – Colour boost

Tony — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:22 +0000

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.

Photography techniques – Hyperfocal distance

Tony — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:13:47 +0000

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.

Photoshop Basics – noise reduction

Tony — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:41:09 +0000

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.

HDR4 – Photoshop enhancements

Tony — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:56:05 +0000

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.