Lightroom guru and best selling author, Scott Kelby shares his tips for sharpening and noise reduction in lightroom. These tips were taken from Scott Kelby’s latest book, How Do I Do That in Lightroom?. How Do I Do Basic Sharpening?…
Time-lapse photography is a cousin of Interval timer shooting (see the previous chapter). The primary difference is that Time-lapse photography is designed to create a silent time-lapse movie obeying the Frame size/frame rate and Image area options configured earlier in…
This article is an excerpt from Mastering Canon EOS Flash Photography, 2nd Edition. All images and content are by NK Guy While flash units are used today mainly as a photographic light sources, the flash tube was originally used as…
With film photography in particular, people often question why we’re using an “outdated” medium. Are we merely nostalgic? Or is it because being retro is trendy right now? There are many people who are curious about our film photography. Nowadays,…
Meticulously composing an image to bring out the best in your subject can be very satisfying, and the Fujifilm X100T has a big, bright viewfinder that makes it all the more enjoyable. Even though architectural photographers place a premium on…
Blemish Removal Spot removal is not just for landscapes or dust removal, it can also be used to retouch facial blemishes. Let’s do some spot work on a face. For this image, I’m just doing light work to demo the…
From The Visual Palette by Brian Matiash A Friend in Distortion In photography there are several examples of technical and aesthetic decision-making that can seem—and outright are—contradictory, especially when we consider the “corrective” phase of post-processing. For instance, photographers go…
A “blind” (as it pertains to photography) is a concealment device used to camouflage the photographer from the subject of the photograph. When photographing birds, you can either sit in plain view of the birds, or use a blind to…
Although it can make some good guesses based on how the brightness levels vary within a scene, your D7200 has no way of knowing for sure what it’s pointed at. So, it must make some assumptions and calculate the correct…
This article is from Street Photography by Gordon Lewis One of the attractions of street photography is that it requires so little equipment. Successful street photographers have been known to use only one camera and one or two lenses during their entire…