In this post, I wanted to explain why I like to shoot multiple images when capturing Landscapes. Of course the one main advantage is to create bracketed images but that means you are taking different exposure brackets. However, this is not what I mean. Its about taking multiple images of the same scene so you can take best elements from multiple...
As much as possible I want to shoot the image correctly in camera so that I don't have to crop the image later in Lightroom or Photoshop. But sometimes cropping creates greater impact for an image no matter how you have taken the original shot. We often have a few ratios typically available to us such as 16:9 or 16:10 which are wide angle crops...
Remembering to set the correct date and time on my camera when I travel has always been a challenge for me.
I get too excited and focused on capturing my planned images when I’m travelling that I don’t remember to set the correct time on my camera. When I did remember to set it, I would forget to change it back I got back home. So one way or another this was a constant battle for me.
One of the main things I struggled with when I started photography was getting the White Balance correct. For those who don't know, an incorrect white balance is when the image ends up being either too blue or too yellow in colour due to the lighting in the room. If you are just starting up with your first camera the chances are you are shooting...
ND filters (or Neutral Density filters) are used to capture time moving in your image by increasing the exposure time of your shot. This technique is called Long Exposure photography and I did talk about it in an earlier post The Black Glass where I talked about how to use this filter. I guess this is the opposite of that post as we look at what...
Whatever your workflow is Lightroom knowing this technique will clean up and speed up your process. Both the Left and Right Module panels in Lightroom can be configured in this mode, its called the Solo Mode. When activated, Solo Mode only keep your current module which you are working on open. If you switch to another module in the same panel it...
Adobe Photoshop celebrates its 25th Anniversary and what better way to celebrate then to ask (well CreativeLive did the asking) current Photoshop experts to have a go at using Photoshop v1.0. Check out this great fun video where industry leading photoshop experts such as: Dave Cross Jared Platt Ben Willmore Chris Orwig Julieanne Kost Aaron Nace...
Wether you use Photoshop or Lightroom there are some plugins that are must have for editing your photos and giving them an extraordinary look and feel. You can own one of them or all of them but I can say for sure you won't be disappointed with either of them and nor will you find a look that you like. Personally I own both Nik Collection by...
What is Haze? Haze is a smoggy look your photo will get when you shoot in hot weather eg. summer, shoot into the sun or shoot in an area where is bad pollution. It also appears in photos when you shoot through a window or glass as it causes the catches some light and therefore creates a haze in your photo. Here are some examples of images that...
For the past 8 years, I've heard about Colour or Color (if you are in the US) Calibration of your screen to get optimised representation of the colours captured in your camera. Its something that Pros do and live by. I've resisted doing this as I don't consider myself a pro, I'm always learning things because I figured my iMac and MacBook Pro had...
Every time you take a picture, your camera embeds the date time into the photo. As we take vacation, and these days people travel more overseas than explore their backyard, which means they are in different time zones. If you are like me, you get so caught up in taking pictures that you don't realise that your camera is still set to the Home time...
Renaming files in Lightroom Why would you want to rename your photos, you might be wondering? Well if you shoot as much as me you end up with 10s of thousands of photos per year in your computer, having the files named with appropriate names makes them easy to find in Lightroom and through Finder (on Mac) or Explorer (on Windows). You can also...