Tips / Tutorials
Hey there! I am an avid user of Adobe Lightroom and use almost exclusively it to process all of my images, but something I just never got around to learning was how to create and use my own presets. There are a number of different types of presets, such as metadata presets, export presets and [...]
I find it fascinating that this following tip actually works. I have heard people say that scratches lenses dont particularly bother them and that the image quality doesn’t noticeably suffer depending on the type of shot they are taking. The tip is that if you want to make a scratch “dissappear” then you need to [...]
After a little while away from my camera I finally got a chance to get out and snap some more portraits last weekend. We have at last found and settled into a new flat in Sutherland which makes Cronulla our new local beach, so off we trotted with a camera and a couple of strobes [...]
Good morrow kind sirs, I decided to give Sonia a break from modelling for me last night by giving some self portraits a go as she went off and did her thing taking some twilight shots of the Opera House and city skyline. I felt a little dorky setting up my tripod and light stand [...]
Lightroom’s Default Develop Settings: If you are anything like me, then you have spent all too long wondering a couple of things about lightroom (I use version 2.2) regarding importing RAW files and the default settings that Lightroom applies to them before you begin working on editing them. Firstly, I wondered how to CHANGE those [...]
Here’s a real quick tip I wanted to share – I have only relatively recently happened upon it so I am thinking there may be a whole bunch of you out there who might not know about this simple yet excellent photoshop feature. I see so many Photoshop tutorials that instruct you to flatten your [...]
So I was browsing one of my favourite photography blogs, Digital-Photography-School.com a little while ago and came across an inspirational article by Neil Creek (read it here) about presenting your photographs professionally in a photo eBook and thought; Why not give it a go myself? The original article by Neil describes the benefits of creating [...]
Here’s a little technique which gave an interesting result when I tried it for the first time from my hotel room in Brisbane a while back. It’s a variation on the zoom-burst technique which involves zooming in on your subject whilst taking a long exposure shot, therefore giving a zoom-like motion effect to your shot. [...]
I originally posted this in the digital-photography-school.com forums, but in an effort to collate all of my best articles I am re-posting it here. The original read as follows: Hey everybody, I thought I would share with you my latest experience. I went out this evening with the intention of getting some nice dusk shots [...]