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Mother of a Morning – Glacier Beach Iceland
Nacreous clouds are ice particles high up in the atmosphere that catch sunlight long before sunrise. They are also known as Polar…
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January Star – Icelandic Ice Beach
It was horrible conditions that brought about this beauty. We were sand blasted and windswept on the black sand beach, day 2…
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Colour Ripples – Glacier Ice on Diamond Beach
We caught the tail end of the overnight storm at Jokulsarlon Diamond Ice Beach. The wind & sand created incredible scalloped textures…
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Luminosity Masks – Ice beach method – Advanced Photoshop
The aim of this image editing technique is to enhance colours, to give them that contrast colour while maintaining a natural contrast.
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Magic Cloth Trouble shooting
Though this technique produces some beautiful images for me, it is not without it’s issues.
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Aurora and foreground? Northern Lights Photography
The Northern lights in Iceland can yield wonderful displays for your camera, but if you can include some of the landscape you…
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Ansel Adams – magic card
In one of the last interviews with Ansel Adams he expressed excitement over the possibility of digital photography.
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Video Tutorial: Icelandic Waterfall Skutafoss
This tutorial is a demonstration of the Magic Cloth Technique to add drama to a dull sky at the SKutafoss waterfall in…
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Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness
Night photography is a challenging hobby. You are taking a picture in conditions where you can barely see your camera. You have…
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Exposing to the Right in Digital Photography
Exposure is a critical element in photography. Until the emergence of Digital photography, it was common practice for landscape photographers to slightly…
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Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion
This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may…
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HDR photography – 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…