Everything I needed to know about how to capture a moment, I learned in the Boy Scouts. Â It’s all right there in their motto. Be prepared. Defining the Moment Are some people naturally better at capturing a moment than others? Perhaps, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t learn how to capture a…
You can streamline your post processing workflow using color labels to mark your progress. Here’s a quick post to show how it works.
You can enhance the dramatic mood in portraits using a combination of blurring, blend modes, and layer masks in a few easy steps. I’m using Photoshop CS6 in this tutorial, but you can do the same thing with Elements or Pixelmator. Let’s start with our portrait out of the camera. I shot this image a…
High Key Post Processing is the second half of creating an image with a lot of light and washing out the tones a bit. There are plenty of plug-in tools to give you a high key look, but I’ll show you an easy way to do it yourself. The Original Image Here’s where we start….
It’s easy to produce overwhelming colors in HDR processing. You get some crazy colors out of Photomatix and other tools. Now how to you bring them back down to Earth? Photomatix has more tools now than when I first started using it, but it’s still not the end of your HDR processing. Those crazy, grungy…
Sometimes I don’t feel like lugging my heavy DSLR around. Fortunately, it’s just as easy to do Point and Shoot HDR. Have you ever looked at a photographer’s Gear Page and thought it would take forever and a fortune to buy all of that stuff? I don’t have everything listed on my page (must be…