Ice beach method video tutorial

Photoshop Techniques

Ice beach method This is a photoshop technique to enhance colours and contrasts in a landscape photograph. The technique uses luminosity masks similar to Tony Kuyper’s technique. Different goals are achieved through blending modes such as; screen, soft-light and...
Colour Jelly

Colour Jelly

Image Focus, MC Image Focus

Date and LocationCamera settingsEquipment Taken on January 11, 2017 Location: Jökulsarlon diamond beach Camera settings ƒ/6.3 24 mm 2.5 seconds 600 Mode: AV mode with + 2 stops over (compensation +/-). Focus: f/11 hyperfocal mark. This is slightly weighted to the...
Mother of a morning

Mother of a morning

MC Image Focus, Photography Techniques

This was a January morning in the South East of Iceland. This was no ordinary morning for our 5 day workshop because the sky was filled with a special kind of cloud. Nacreous clouds are ice particles high up in the atmosphere that catch sunlight long before sunrise....
ColourRipples

ColourRipples

Image Focus, MC Image Focus

Date and LocationCamera settingsEquipment Taken on January 11, 2017 Location: The Ice Beach at Breidarmurkursandur Winter Sunsrie on a stormy Jökulsarlon lagoon and Ice Beach. The storm was overnight and we caught the tail end of ice. The wind & sand created...
Ice beach method

Ice beach method

Photoshop Techniques

This is the main method I use to process most images. After many years of doing this in photoshop, I have decided to share the technique with you. The aim of this technique is to enhance colours, to give them that contrast colour while maintaining a natural contrast....