Forget about acquiring the know-how to edit photos to make them actually stand out and look wonderful, just learning and figuring out how to navigate around Adobe Photoshop can be a chore unto itself. I get that people need “an eye” to make images look awesome. They need to know some color theory, fundamentals of […]
How to Manually Select a Focus Point with your Canon Rebel DSLR Camera
Trying to get a camera to focus on the correct object in a photo has always been a challenge for many people. This is especially true as they move from the very beginning stages of photography to the more amateur stages. In the beginning, many folks simply point and shoot from a distance. As they […]
Brightening & Coloring with the Color Mask in Adobe Lightroom
I think I’m going to mess around in Adobe Lightroom today, just for practice. Out of all the Adobe applications I use, Lightroom sees the least amount of daylight. I’ve said it a million times, my workflow consists of Bridge to Camera Raw to Photoshop. If you aren’t aware, Lightroom is sort of a combination […]
Correcting Fisheye Lens Distortion in Adobe Photoshop
I have an update to yesterday’s post. Because the demo photo I used in that post didn’t do a very good job of describing how the Adaptive Wide Angle filter works, I thought I’d follow up with this one. I have the perfect photo for today’s demonstration so I think everything should be clear from […]
Using the Adaptive Wide Angle Filter in Adobe Photoshop
There are many types of images that need to be corrected because of distortion. Photos that were taken with wide angle lenses, fisheye lenses and those images that were merged together to create panoramic photos. In each of these cases, either the lens itself caused the distortion or the merging together did. No matter the […]
How to Make a Panorama with Photomerge in Adobe Photoshop
A while ago, I wrote a few posts that dealt with the creation of panoramic images in both Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw. Creating these types of images has become incredibly easy though the years and Adobe makes the process painless. If you’ve got decent shots, there are only a few simple steps to take. […]
Experiment: Does Exposure Affect Noise Levels in Photographs?
I’ve taken a lot of photographs in my day and I’ve noticed a lot of things. One of these things has to do with darker, underexposed photos. It seems as though underexposed images are slightly noisy when compared to their well exposed counterparts. Now, when I say “darker,” I mean underexposed. I don’t mean photos […]
Organizing & Matching Location in the Adobe Photoshop Workspace
Just a few moments ago, I was teaching someone how to manage the workspace in Adobe Photoshop. A number of times, I said, “There are about a millions ways to do the same things in this program.” It’s true. You can follow a number of different paths in Photoshop and arrive at the same destination. […]
How to Focus Your Camera at Night or in the Dark
Night photography is a lot of fun, but it does pose a few challenges. It requires that you know how to operate your camera on a much higher level than you would normally need to know. It also requires that you become much more aware of your surroundings. When shooting at night, one vital sense […]
Tips For Better Photography – Taking Action Shots at Night
There’s something about the photography exposure triangle that I just love. I can talk about it for hours if anyone cared to listen. It’s just technical enough to keep me interested and its concepts can be continuously applied to all types of photography. Actually, it has to be applied for decent photographs to be captured. […]
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