Smiling Indians and Edward S. Curtis. PetaPixel. Create a Sawed-Off, Clip-On Paintbrush for Easy Camera Cleaning If you regularly shoot in dusty or sandy environments, here’s a handy tip for keeping your camera clean: create a simple cleaning brush that attaches to your camera bag. Digital Camera World writes, You’ll never bag a great photo with dirty lenses and dusty gear, so keeping your camera and lenses clean and protected is crucial. The front line of defence against dirt and grime is constant cleaning. This isn’t easy if you have to carry around cans of compressed air, blower brushes, fluids and other bulky equipment. You’ll need a hacksaw and a drill to “hack” a 25mm paintbrush, and a split-ring and carabiner for attaching it to your camera bag or backpack. Keep Your Camera Clean with This Homemade Brush [Digital Camera World] P.S. How to Use Your iPhone as a Quick and Easy Negative Viewer If you do any darkroom work, you probably regularly print contact sheets to peek at the positive versions of your B&W negative film strips.
Diy Expodisk Easily get your white balance right by making your own expodisk. We have in one of our earlier posts discussed about white balance and also about how to make use of the custom white balance settings feature in modern digital cameras. So inorder to set custom white balance settings right, you need to point your camera to a white object in the scene or a white/grey card that you carry and set the image as reference for white balance in your future shots. There is one product available in the market to make this process easier, you might have already heard of it, if not it is called the Expodisk. It is a device that you can mount on your camera’s lens. Expodisk is made of semi transparent material that allows light to pass through it.
Here is the procedure for using expodisk Mount the Expodisk, switch your camera to manual focusing mode, point it to the light source with which you are going to shoot, click one picture and in your camera set it as the picture for white balance using custom white balance settings. Your diy expodisk is now ready for use.
Lighting hacks. Workshops. Photo blogs to check out. Great photographers. Categorize Theses. Professional Proofing, E-Commerce and Stock Photography Websites for Photographers. Grants and Funding For Photographers. Templates for photographers. Photoshop Tutorials. 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop! The recent release of Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) 2014 (which is the 15th release of the product) got me thinking about my own workflow. Photoshop is an amazing piece of software. I have been using it commercially since version 5. However, I don’t necessarily think the latest version is the best one. I’ve just recently upgraded to CS6 and I’m loving it but I can’t see myself going the CC route just yet, as it doesn’t suit my business model. The beauty of this software is the power that it can bring to your images, but it is a complex piece of software and coming to grips with it as a beginner can be daunting.
As a photographer, Photoshop is the main editing software package I use in my photography workflow. I’m constantly refining, and tweaking my editing workflow. Before I start editing my images in Photoshop, I open them with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) since I shoot RAW format. The following tips for using Photoshop are my regular editing techniques in no particular order. 1. 2.