How to Easily Improve Your Skies in Adobe Lightroom. The following two tabs change content below. Jason Row is a British born travel photographer now living in Ukraine. His images have been licensed to companies such as Cunard, Ethiad and Virgin Atlantic as well as multiple newspapers and magazines. He is also the founder of Learn Photography Direct, the new, unique, one to one photographic tutoring service. He maintains a travel stock photography site at Jason Row Photography You can also catch up with him on Facebook at Facebook/TheOdessaFiles It’s a fact that even the most beautifully composed image will fall apart if it includes a dull, lifeless sky. A great sky, on the other hand, can boost the impact of an image immensely. The problem is that we are at the mercy of Mother Nature and she is not always forthcoming about giving us the sky we need. The Graduated Filter Lightroom’s Grad Filter is perhaps the easiest way to boost a dull looking sky.
Now move your curser over the main image, you will that your curser turns to a crosshair. 3 Lightroom Tweaks to Get Your Landscape Photographs to Sing | Light Stalking. Although originally developed as a image management tool, Adobe’s Lightroom has evolved into a powerful post production application. For many photographers, Lightroom provides all the tools required to make their images pop without ever having to resort to Photoshop. Lightroom’s tools are particularly suited to landscape and urban photographers who want to squeeze every last drop of quality from their images. Today we are going to look at three powerful tweaks that will make your outdoor images sing. 1. Although it’s name suggests a similarity with it’s real life equivalent, it is in fact so much more powerful than that.
To use the filter, select it in the Develop module. The Grad Filter is found just below the histogram Here I have deepened the blue of the sky If we return to the idea of changing the color sea, we could try to do this by using the Temp and Tint sliders at the top. At the very bottom of the Graduated Filter tool box is a Color swatch. 2. HSL’s neat fine control tool 3. An Introduction to Lens Selection for 5 Common Photography Subjects | Light Stalking. The following two tabs change content below. Photographer who loves challenging and experimental photography and is not afraid to share the knowledge about it. As you dive into the world of photography, it will not take you long to notice that there is a lens for almost everything. For a beginner, a dilemma arises when you have to decide which lens to choose for certain photography subjects.
Well, first of all, one must know that there isn’t a single lens that will do everything you need on a given subject. The working conditions won’t be the same every time and you’ll need to adapt and improvise. But, you can generalize certain aspects of the lenses available for different occasions. 1. This is a given – you will need a sharp lens, mid telephoto (35-135mm) with wide aperture. Read more: How to Capture Portraits That Are More Than Just Snapshots 2. Wider lenses will do you good here, but you can’t limit yourself to one focal length. Read more: Landscape Photography for the Serious Amateur.
Jeffrey’s “Creative Commons” Lightroom Plugin. This Lightroom plugin allows you to inject metadata related to your Creative Commons choices into exported copies of images. If you choose to share your copyrighted image with the world under a creative-commons license, this plugins injects details of the license into the metadata of exported copies, to tightly associate your license choice with the image. This metadata tagging is much better than a simple text- or icon-based notation near the image, or RDFa markup in HTML, because it keeps your express wishes tied to the image even when it is later downloaded, copied, shared, deep linked, etc. You can configure the kind and form of metadata to add, but as a quick example, the following metadata display via my online image-metadata viewer, of the metadata in the first photo of my recent post “Cute Little Melodrama in Five Photos”, illustrates the Creative-Commons metadata I chose to add: Download This plugin works in Lightroom 5 and Lightroom 4.
Library Setup Possible Field Values Export Setup. 30 Links to Beautiful Photography and Inspiring Articles | Light Stalking. Another very exciting week in the world of photography has passed us by, and we find Toad Hollow Photography searching all over the internet for links to the best tutorials, special features, reviews, great photography and interesting blogs to share here with everyone. This weeks list is comprised of a wide variety of topics and photographs, and we really hope you enjoy checking out these links as much as the Toad did himself in bringing this list to you. Tutorials Understanding Depth of Field: How Focal Distance Affects DOF, Visualized – this video tutorial is just a few minutes in length, and it gives a fresh perspective to an aspect of physics that is often discussed in the field of photography; depth of field.
This great presentation shows through a set of overlays real focal depths and perspectives in a scene, making it very easy to understand the principles behind depth-of-focus. Special Features The Magnificent Lads on the Side of the Tower! Great Photography Interesting Blogs. The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Shooting Low Key - Tuts+ Photo & Video Tutorial. Recently, we took a look at how to create stunning high key images in a studio environment, producing bright images with an emphasis on beauty and clarity. Today we'll jump to the other side of the lighting spectrum and examine what low key lighting is and how you can achieve it in your own work.
Low key refers to a style of photography that utilizes predominantly dark tones to create a dramatic looking image. Where high key lighting seeks to over light the subject to the point of reduced contrast, low key lighting intensifies the contrast in an image through intensely reduced lighting. The key here is not just to produce a dark image but to use lighting very selectively so that only specific portions of the image are illuminated.
Instead of avoiding intense shadows, you'll have to consider them as the primary element of the composition; one that defines the mood of the entire photograph. Artists recognized the power of low key lighting long before photographers came around.
Slide and Clutch: Versatile Camera Sling and Hand Strap by Peak Design. Slide is a camera strap, but one that's different from every other camera strap out there. Slide is more than just a neck strap, sling strap or shoulder strap. Slide is a new kind of camera strap that incorporates everything we love about existing straps, as well as feedback from thousands of photographers worldwide. In a nutshell, we think Slide is the most thoughtfully designed camera strap ever created. See how Slide is unlike any other camera strap: Slide is: Clutch™ is the only quick-connecting, quick-adjusting camera hand strap ever made.
See why Clutch is a notch above other hand straps: Clutch is: Quick connecting with one hand, so you can add or remove it as needed.Quick adjusting, so you can tighten it when you need extra security and loosen it when you need to access your camera's controls.Low profile and unobtrusive compared to other camera hand straps on the market. Got a camera neck strap that you absolutely love? Anchor Links are: Super strong. Pretty slick, eh? This Many Awesome Photography Links May Be Hazardous to Small Children. The internet plays host to so many fabulous photographers and artists, and Toad Hollow Photography searches high and low every week trying to find the best links to tutorials, great photography and blogs of interest to share with everyone here. This week’s list is chock-full of awesome images and great posts by a wide variety of super-talented people.
We really hope you enjoy checking out the photographs and posts as much as the Toad did in bringing this list to you. Top 7 Natural Light Portrait tips that I’ve learnt – a fabulous list of tips and tricks for doing portrait photography in natural light settings. Tristan Jud outlines a short series of thoughts here that can really help you make the most of this genre of image production. DIY: Keep Your Turkey Company with Beautiful Photo Place Holders – what a neat idea! The Importance of Being Alone – Erik and Kathleen Kerstenbeck share an absolutely poignant and profound piece in this blog post. Some Really Useful Resources for Making You a Master at the Art of Split Tone Photography.
Bio Twitter Facebook Google+ Latest Posts I'm Rob, the editor of Light Stalking. @PSbyAY You should make it look like Instagram and you'll have the hipster trifecta! By Light Stalking on in Featured , Guides Split tone photography is a technique that has allowed photographers to produce some of the most amazing shots you will ever see. Split toning uses more than one colour to tone an image. Backgrounder: In traditional print photography, toning was a way to change the basic colour of black and white photographs (traditional toning still creates a monochromatic image). Experimentation with traditional forms of toning such as sepia eventually lead to several ways to “split tone” a photograph. In the early days, split toning simply afforded photographers an extra avenue to pursue in their art form.
Today many photographers still enjoy the images that can be produced by emulating split toning in post-production software such as Photoshop and Lightroom. Photofocus.
20+ Cheatsheets & Infographics For Photographers. We love cheatsheets as one can refer to them and make quick amendments to better our skills. Since many loved our last compilation of cheatsheet for designers, we’ve decided to compile another set of cheatsheets, this time for photographers. Amateur photographers, and even pros can easily benefit from these cheatsheets as it is a resource for fresh and new ideas. We’ve scoured the Web and have found a wide variety of cheatsheets covering various aspects of photography and catering to the many levels of skills and interest of anyone who calls themselves a photographer. Most of the pictures you see here are cropped for a nice fit, so remember to click on the links to check out the entire cheatsheet or infographic. Some of them are really long and can give you a ton of worthwhile information that you really can’t do without. Recommended Reading: Five Vital Black & White Photography Tips Focal Lengths Manual Photography 3 Ways to Affect Depth of Field Photography Cheatsheet 3 Elements of Exposure.
10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Camera. As digital SLR cameras become more and more popular, features that used to reserved for professionals are now available to everyone. More and more technology is being squeezed into our cameras. You don't need to use every feature on your camera for every photo, but when you're struggling with a certain effect or situation, chances are there's a setting or mode that can make your job a lot easier.
Here's ten examples of helpful features you might not know about! 1. Bracketing is a technical term commonly used for HDR, where three to five photos are taken in succession at different exposures you can set. Another popular use of bracketing is to ensure you get a proper expose. 2. The standard setting for most camera systems is that when you press the shutter button down halfway, your camera will automatically focus. Typically, back button focus can be set on all modern DSLRs from the major manufacturers. 3. 4. 5. This feature goes back to the days of film. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Top Ten Nikon Customizations You Must Know! Have you ever gotten sucked into one of those crazy endless debates about Nikon VS Canon? People start throwing around the phrase “it’s just a matter of preference, and the “feel” of the camera” Right then, you realized you don’t have any real, solid reasons for preferring the “feel” of your Nikon?
”I’m used to the controls” is actually a pretty weak excuse, when you think about it. I’m a Nikon shooter, but I also happen to know every Canon DSLR like the back of my hand too! Well, here are ten customizations that I love about my Nikon D700. 1.) Pin It 2.) In the My Menu, I have added two full pages of options: 3.) Shooting Menu Banks: Daylight (base ISO, daylight kelvin WB, Vivid picture control, etc.)Low Light (ISO 3200, WB at ~2700 kelvin, Neutral picture control, etc.)Automatic JPG (auto ISO, Auto WB, Active D-lighting, JPG capture)Maximum RAW (14-bit un-compressed RAW, base ISO, for landscapes etc.)
Custom Settings Bank: 4.) …Of course if you use a battery grip, this doesn’t matter. 5.) Six Tips For Better DSLR Autofocus And Sharper Images - Q&A. Question By far one of the biggest hurdles in mastering your DSLR, especially for portraits and candid / action photos, is mastering the art of autofocus. AF systems are so complex these days, I frequently do private coaching that is ENTIRELY focused (pun intended?) On achieving more consistent focus and sharpness! You may think you’re doing the right thing, you may know your camera pretty well, but you still find that photos seem to be “okay” on your camera yet definitely soft when you get them on your computer. Pin It Pin It Pin ItNailing focus in poor light or in close quarters at fast apertures is not easy, but with practice you can get very consistent results!
Answer Okay first things first: as any sniper will tell you lol, holding your breath WHILE you pull the trigger is almost the right idea, but not quite. So, there’s that. 1.) Unless you have a custom Katz Eye focus screen, your DSLR is just not designed to display precise focus in the viewfinder. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) Pin It. In-Camera Settings for RAW Outdoor Photography -- Picture Styles & Controls.
Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 57: Rear Curtain Sync: Adorama Photography TV. Six Tips For Better DSLR Autofocus And Sharper Images - Q&A. Make an in-camera multiple exposure on your Nikon DSLR. Multiple exposure is an old technique that was enjoyed by photographers long before digital cameras came along. The process involves exposing two or more images onto one frame so that there’s a multi-layered effect, with parts of both images revealed on top of each other (see our guide to Digital camera effects from A-Z). This used to be achieved by disengaging the film advance and taking two shots on the same piece of film.
Obviously, there’s no film advance on a digital SLR, but many cameras have a digital version of the feature built in, which is easily accessible from the menu. Even if your digital camera doesn’t have that component, you can still achieve the same effect by combining two images in Photoshop and blending the layers together (find out How to give your image a painting effect). In this project, we’ve used the multiple exposure technique with a little twist: both images are essentially the same, we’ve just moved the camera a fraction between the two shots. 8 Details for Exceptional Photos | Contrastly. Photo opportunities are great. But there’s nothing worse than looking over your shots later, and realizing that you didn’t get a single one worth keeping. If you’re like me, this happens from time to time. Fortunately though, you can take comfort in knowing that failure to capture beautiful imagery is not always a case of being completely inept with the camera!
Creating beautiful photos is challenging, very challenging – and it involves more than just a great photo opportunity. Capturing exceptional photos requires the ability to spot great photo opportunities – as well as knowledge on how to bring those opportunities to life. If you are looking for some ways to strengthen the impact of your photography, there are a few details that you shouldn’t overlook. Exceptional Lighting photo by r. nial bradshawThe right lighting can turn an ordinary photo opportunity, into an extraordinary one. Photo by chattygdPhotos taken without enthusiasm are uninspired and meaningless. Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D Lens - Nikon Lenses - SLR Lenses - Lenses | ValueBasket AU.
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