My Geeky Analysis of Noise and Night Photography
OK, If you are the creative type looking for some creative tips… skip this blog entry. If you like the technical aspects of photography, then you might find this interesting. Warning.. this is pretty nerdy stuff. After my first outing of night photography I was pretty happy with the results but concerned about the noise levels I was seeing in …
Read MoreMy Journey into Night Photography Begins
OK, I have pretty much completed my last project (to shoot all the tidal pools on the Northern Beaches). Now I’m onto my next Project…. Night Photography! Last night I went out with Haggis for a night shoot. It was a blast. Here’s two of my images from the first outing. Here’s the key takeways from that shoot. 1) Night …
Read MoreA Cool Recipe for Better Skin Tone Colours
Several people emailed me after my previous post enquiring about the skin tone recipe, so here it is. I learnt this in a Lynda.com tutorial by Chris Orwig. It sure has helped me get my skin tones much more accurate. It sounds like many of you are like me… have a tough time getting good skin tones right. It’s amazing …
Read MoreXmas Portraits
OK… Wife wanted pictures of the kids this Xmas… about time I stopped taking pictures of the sea and took some of the family…. OK OK… I guess I better have a go at turning out some half-decent portraits. I decided to stay away from the typical Xmas portrait and instead take some more radical shots of the kids doing …
Read MorePost Processing The Martian Rocks
I had a number of people send thank you emails regarding some of my earlier tutorials on how I processed my images. The funny thing is that when I created this blog, to be honest I didn’t even think anybody else would find it or be interested in it, it was more of an online diary of how my own …
Read MoreImproving my Photoshop processing of water
I have found a technique through experimentation that I quite like for giving shots of moving water some extra “oompph”. I used it to create the above photo. Here’s what the water looked like before I applied the effect … and here’s what it looked like after the effect. Here’s how I did the effect. 1) Add a colour balance …
Read MoreOne Of My Best Shots Yet..Sculpture By The Sea
This morning I picked up the Old Man at 4:45am and we drove down to Bondi for sunrise shoot at Sculpture by the sea. Last year we were lucky and had a glorious red sunrise, so we weren’t as optimistic for this year… especially as the weather forecast was for rain. It would have been easy to ignore the alarm …
Read MoreComing Out of The Closet
OK…. I have a confession to make… I bought a macro lens and made my first macro image. Now I’m not sure why I have this mental stigma about macro photographers. I think it’s because I’ve always considered myself a serious landscape photographer and shooting pictures of flowers and butterflies seems like “sissy photography”. It’s so opposite to landscape work… …
Read MoreRight Place… Right Time.
Had some interesting photographic outings recently. Went away with the family to Surfers Paradise so the kids could do the theme park thing. I have forgotten how much I hate Surfers Paradise!!! Decided to do a few sunrises to keep my sanity and get out of the built up area. While doing some research on Flickr I came across some …
Read MorePainting with Waves… An Experiment
I had a brainwave during the week about a new technique I thought of. A while ago I read with interest about a technique called painting with light. Basically if you have a partially cloudy day, you take a picture of an image under cloud, then without moving the camera you take another image in full sunlight. Then later in …
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