Photoshop Tutorial – Getting That Film Look
I’ve had a few people request a tutorial for how I did the tonal manipulations that I talked about in my previous blog. I had put together a tutorial for the participants in my Off Camera Workshop, but I might as well share it with everybody. Word of warning, this tutorial demonstrates a couple of plug-ins (Radlab and Dirty Pictures). …
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Getting that “Film Look” in Portraits
A few weeks ago I went to the cinema and saw the new Sherlock Holmes film. I actually enjoyed the movie for a bunch of different reasons, but I remember sitting there watching the film and just being blown away by the beautiful lighting on the actors faces, and the tonality that was captured by the film. It just looked …
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Inspirational Photographers Part 2 – Night Photography & Light Painting
Continuing on from yesterday’s posting of Inspirational Landscape Photographers, here’s my list of some of the Night Photographers and Light Painters that have inspired me. Tim Simmons http://www.timsimmons.co.uk/ Tim Simmons first got me into light painting. When I saw his landscape images I was mesmerised and set myself on a mission to work out how he got the quality of …
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Inspirational Photographers Part 1: Landscape Photographers
I’m going to do a series of posts of photographers that I find inspirational. Some of these names you will know, some of them I’m sure you won’t know. I’ve been bookmarking photographers for about 8 years now, and I love going back to their sites and seeing what they are up to. This first list of inspiring photographers is …
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Drenched while shooting – Check This Video Out!
Don’t you just hate it when…. Everything is cool… your out on a beautiful rocky outcrop enjoying a lovely sunrise… framing up a nice composition…. When all of a sudden you notice a dark shadow come over you…. and it turns out to be a big wave! Happened to me the other morning, luckily John Armytage was recording video on …
Read MoreWelcome To My New Blog/Website
Welcome to my new web site. Over the Xmas period I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can help more people share the love of photography. I realised that my blog has sort of evolved over the last four years. It originally started as my own online diary so that I could record my own photographic journey, however over …
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New Photoshop Tutorial – Post Processing “Swimmer” using abstraction
This video tutorial will show you a new technique using a cheap ($40) plug-in from Topaz called Topaz Detail. Now while the main point of this plug-in is to give you tremendous control over the detail that you can bring up in your image using the fine, medium or large sliders. It has another use that I have been experimenting …
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New Workshop Dates Announced
Hey folks For those of you that were interested in my next workshops, I have now confirmed the dates. The next Seascape workshop is on Sat 11th Feb 2012 and Sun 12th Feb 2012 in Mona Vale The next Off Camera Flash workshop is on Sun 5th Feb in Alexandria. More information on each workshop can be found in the …
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Photoshop Tutorial – Postprocessing The Deadvlei
Here’s a real quick photoshop tutorial that shows how I post-processed this iconic image taken at the Deadvlei in Namibia. Because this is such a surreal location I wanted to reflect this in the post processing. Because of it’s iconic nature, there are plenty of wonderful natural-looking images of the Deadvlei, so I was trying to do something a bit …
Read MoreNamibia – Abstract Landscapes
One of the highlights of my trip to Namibia was visiting the Deadvlei near Sesriem. From the time I first saw photos from this amazing place I said to myself “this is somewhere that I just have to photograph”. The textures of the dry lake bed…. the abstract shapes of the petrified trees….. the beautiful red/orange sand dunes …
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