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….
Sooner or later, you’re going to run into some difficult subjects – people who don’t like having someone take their photo. Here are a few ideas to help you deal with them.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is a mecca for Art Deco architecture. It also seems to be a magnet for storms in the summer.
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…
I think umbrella lighting gets a bad rap these days. When should you reach back to the basics and use an umbrella for your portraits? Don’t misunderstand me. I love my softboxes. Strip lights, big octa boxes and grids are fun toys to use. It’s an interesting mental exercise to craft your lighting and there…
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…