Selective Desaturation In Photoshop
Today, I’m going to walk you through the steps required for selective desaturation in Photoshop. If you missed yesterday’s phototip that introduced selective desaturation in the RAW process, you might want to check it out. Sometimes images will require a much more complex process to achieve the look and for those, it’s best to work [...]
Selective Desaturation in RAW
Selective desaturation is a popular look in some fields of photography. Also referred to as selective color, it’s the type of photograph where one element is in color and the rest, black and white. The technique is a bit of a love-hate thing – some photographers and viewers love it, others hate it. Personally, it’s [...]
Negative Space
A photograph has three essential components, those being the frame, the positive space and the negative space. The frame is easy enough to understand – it’s what the image is bounded by. The positive space is the subject of the image itself and the negative space is most simply described as the empty space around [...]
Peacemaker Interview
As many of you know, the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers (IGVP) launched recently. I am a keen supporter of this initiative and very excited about what the future holds for IGVP. One of the areas in the profile section of the site is the Peacemaker Interview, a series of eight questions that give visitors [...]
Phoneography
It’s close to impossible today to buy a cell phone without a camera and interest in using the inbuilt camera in creative ways is growing all the time. Chase Jarvis is one of the biggest advocates of this with his Best Camera app for iPhone’s but cellphone photography or phoneography is by no means restricted [...]
Living In The Cloud
Modern photography results in enormous amounts of digital data being produced. This runs the full range from the RAW image files themselves through edited versions through catalog and database information and more. As you accumulate more and more photographs, you need a safe and secure method of storing them. This applies to those who produce [...]
Daytime Long Exposure
Long exposure photography is most often associated with nighttime images or those captured around sunrise and sunset. When there’s less light available, the shutter needs to be kept open for longer exposure times. Shooting at these times of day, long exposures are necessary in order to record the scene. Sometimes however, it’s desirable to have [...]
Free Is A Four Letter Word
The debate on providing images for free is not a new one. John Harrington, photographer and author of Best Business Practices for Photographers (a book that is a must-have for any professional or aspiring professional photographer), recently generated a large amount of discussion with his post at Blackstar entitled 12 Excuses for Shooting Photos for [...]
Getting Started With Alamy
With almost 20 million photographs on file represented 20 000 photographers and 500 other agencies, Alamy is one of the larger stock photo agencies in existence. For a lot of photographers, particularly ones who don’t want to go the microstock route, Alamy is often the first place they look to when trying to make a [...]
Grain Effects in Lightroom 3
Whereas digital noise is usually undesirable in photographs, film grain can give photographs a desired look, particularly with black and white images. The recently released Adobe Photothop Lightroom 3 offers a grain effects feature in the Develop module. Let’s take a look at how it works. With you image open in the Develop module, look [...]
Self Portraiture
Here in Taiwan, one of the most popular subjects for photography seems to be oneself. On an almost daily basis you can see people taking photos of themselves – on the subway, in restaurants and generally just out and about. There are a few challenges to keep in mind when taking a self-portrait, so let’s [...]
Lighting A Room
One of the most common situations that the average person may find themselves in when it comes to photography is taking a photo inside the house. It presents a unique challenge especially in daylight, that is fortunately pretty easy to overcome. Imagine you”re the designated photographer at a family gathering. Maybe a kids birthday party [...]
The Magic Of Black and White III – latest release from Craft and Vision
Every time Craft and Vision releases a new eBook, photographers globally rush to get their hands on a copy and this latest release promises to continue that trend. Andrew S. Gibson returns for the third part of his excellent “The Magic of Black and White” series. This edition is subtitled “Nine Photos” and Gibson takes [...]
Monitor Calibration Revisited
Some recent hardware and software upgrades to my computer system has meant that I’ve had a buy new monitor calibration tools. I made mention of this on Facebook and it inspired a small discussion. It became apparent to me that there is still a lot of ignorance and misunderstanding about monitor calibration. Some people have [...]
Visual Peacemaking
The International Guild of Visual Peacemakers – IGVP – officially launched to the public on Monday morning. About a week ago, Matt Brandon wrote a post entitled “Tom Little, IGVP And The Need For Peace”. In it he briefly discussed why he is a part of the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers and made mention [...]
Surf Photography
From the age of about 16 through to my mid-twenties, I surfed regularly. Blessed by living on Sydney’s northern beaches, I’d be out in the water on pretty much any day that there were decent waves. The area was home to a number of professional surfers, including a few world champions – in fact one [...]
First Steps in Showcasing Photography with ROSH Images
Today’s phototip features ROSH Images, a newly formed photography partnership consisting of Ron Albrecht and Shaun Taylor McManus. They met five years ago while working as teachers in Taiwan, shared some photowalks together and recently decided to begin showcasing their work in a more organized manner.
Vision and Voice – A Review
David du Chemin has been a busy man. In a little over a year, he’s released three books on photography (as well as a series of eBooks), all focused around the idea of vision. First came Within The Frame, where he talked about the journey of photographic vision, next was Vision Mongers where vision was [...]
Take A Photo Tour
One of the easiest ways to get to some great photographic destinations is to sign up for a phototour. Instead of arriving in a new destination and wasting valuable time trying to work out how to get to the places that you want to visit, you can hit the ground running and get out there [...]
The Black Rapid RS-5 Review
Camera straps are often one of the most overlooked photographic accessories. Let’s face it – the average strap that comes with a camera is extremely uncomfortable. For many years now, I’d been in the habit of buying a third party strap every time I bought a new camera body. I’ve been through a few different [...]
The Art of the Caption
When reviewing the various photographs submitted for the Taipei Photowalk competition, one thing I noticed was that only one photographer had taken the time to write a caption. While captions weren’t a factor in my choosing of the winning image (for what it’s worth, the captioned image didn’t win), and they aren’t strictly necessary for [...]
Useful Software
It goes without saying that software plays a big part in photography today and there are a number of different packages you can use to assist you in creating final images that work the way you want them to. Adobe Photoshop is probably the most widely known amongst the general public but there are a [...]
Eye On Marketing by Rodney Washington
Today it’s an honor to introduce you to Rodney Washington. Rodney is a photographer & Online Marketing Coach teaching photographers & other creatives how to market online. He’s just released a new book,
Send Me An Email
GoogleWave at Me
Meet On Facebook
Follow On Twitter
Connect On Flickr
Subscribe To Feed