The cornerstone of any good digital workflow is to have a monitor that gives you consistent display from one editing session to the next. This tutorial will give a brief overview of the steps involved in calibrating your monitor. It is a relatively easy process but for some reason there is an air of mystery …
Image Stacking There are two ways to approach image making for capturing star trails at night; one long continuous exposure (see previous newsletters–2013, November, December, and 2014, January) or to use a technique called “Image Stacking.” It is this second technique that I will discuss in this article. Depending upon the situation and the …
Photographing Night Skies Part II: the capture. Photographing at night can give you dazzling results, but your camera technique had better be spot-on! Using maximum apertures and high ISO’s are one of the techniques and as such require particular care in the shooting and post-processing of the image. In the last newsletter I discussed …
Tips for post processing Panoramic Images This article is a follow up article on Panoramic Images that I published in the March 2013 newsletter. If you missed that newsletter just send me an email and I will resend that newsletter to you. Post processing and stitching a panoramic image goes much easier …
Panoramic Photos; a tutorial San Galgono, Italy. There are times when I get to a place and I look around and think “Wow, this place is great! It seems like everywhere I look is something interesting. A single photographic frame can’t convey the sense of space or uniqueness of the place.” It is at …
Reading Your Histogram Frequently I am asked: “What should a proper histogram look like?”, and while I admit this topic is not exactly a party ice-breaker it is a topic of constant consideration for the attentive photographer. There is no absolute answer to this question: A proper histogram is one that reflects the tonal values …
History Brush Tutorial: Figure 1; Pierre and northern lights before history brush retouching. Setting Photoshop Preferences: Open Photoshop. Go to the pull-down menus at the top of the screen. Go to Edit/Preferences/Performance–the only preferences you really need to set are in this dialog box: Figure 2; preferences dialog. Set Memory …
Proper histograms for image printing. Landscape photographers frequently have to deal with extremes in light intensities within a single image. A situation that is typically found in landscape images is when the light intensity in the sky is much greater than the light intensity in the foreground as is the case in our sample photograph …
The Digital Dilemma Good Camera Techniques: Shoot, download, save, back-up, reformat. Your camera’s disc is not a long term storage device! They can and will fail at any time. Always reformat the camera disc after you have removed it from the camera and downloaded images. Good Storage Techniques: Your computer’s hard-drive is the best and …
Creating Image Clarity using Photographic Technique Some thoughts on image clarity and perceived image sharpness in relation to; Subject Sharpness, Color Value, Image Contrast, and Localized Image Contrast. Subject Sharpnessis the result of several factors including the camera focus, depth of field, camera support, and proper shutter speed relative to subject motion. Subject Sharpness cannot …
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