Creating a reflection using Photoshop is one of those things that at first glance looks really hard, but really isn’t, once you break down the steps (just light Light Painting which I covered in another two part series). In this article I’m going to demystify creating a reflection, a technique that works particularly well on [...]
In Part One of the Light Painting Tutorial I went over how to do the photography part: equipment, camera settings, set up, lighting, potential pitfalls, and step by step instruction on how to do light painting shots. In this article Part Two, we’re going to take a look at how to combine multiple exposures in [...]
Unless you haven’t been on your computer at all in the last 24-48 hours, you have probably heard by now that Adobe announced an end to their Creative Suite of products and will now be moving to a subscription only based service. This news was not received well in the photography community on Monday as [...]
Often times when I’m photographing landscapes, the image the camera sees versus the image in my head are quite different. Sometimes that image in my head doesn’t mesh with what the camera capture, because the dynamic range is far too great. The contrast between the highlights and shadows is just too great. Such was the [...]
Some exposure situations become difficult to handle in-camera without a little post processing later on. A perfect example is this shot of a desert road in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, that I took a week or so ago. There was no moon, which made it a great night for capturing the stars, but [...]
Motion Blur Filter For the first technique I am going to start with this rather boring and cluttered image I made in a forest on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Maybe it wouldn’t be so boring if there was anything to show the scale of these enormous trees but it’s pretty hard to get away [...]
Using this technique you can create a stippled effect common to impressionist painters by blending multiple layers of a single image. To do this technique, you will need to use a photo editor that supports layers. I use Photoshop Elements but you can also use Gimp, which is free, and many other photo editors. Don’t [...]
Often times when looking at an image, people will ask “Was that Photoshopped?” or “Did that scene REALLY look that way?” They say this as if the camera, left to its own devices, is going to display an unedited, “truthful” image. The truth is, that any image coming out of one of today’s digital cameras [...]
Creating images is a process and, for me, pressing the shutter is only a small part of the journey to an image of sufficient quality to publish. In this article, part 2 to Architecture Photographers on Holiday, I will go through my image workflow. All photography faces the challenge of scenes with a significant dynamic [...]
When you’re using layers in Photoshop for photo editing and composting you can speed up the process of working with them if you know these cool layer tricks. 1. Unlock the Background You will already know the Background of any photo is locked and you can’t do anything much with it until you unlock it. [...]
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