A Cool Trick To Help Find Sensor Dust
I saw this trick demonstrated by Scott Kelby in Lightroom 4, but it works equally well in Photoshop or LR3. Sometimes it can be a bit tricky to find all of the sensor dust on your images, and then later on when you are doing some tonal manipulations you see some of the dust spots you miss become more pronounced. …
Read MorePhotoshop Tutorial – Post Processing Cathedral Rock Minimalist B&W Image
Yesterday I talked about the fun I had capturing these long exposure images using my 10 stop ND filter. I put together this photoshop tutorial which explains how I post-processed this image. I hope you enjoy it. In the tutorial I refer to two plug-ins Color Effex Pro from Nik Tony Kuyper’s Luminosity masks In this tutorial I …
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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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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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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 MorePhotoshop Tutorial – Processing Death Valley
I had a request for a tutorial on how I processed the image above. So I have put together a short 4min tutorial on the processing of Death Valley Image. Enjoy. Brent
Read MoreRockstar Shoot Part 2 of 3 – Light Beam Tutorial
For some shots adding beams of light can really create bring impact into your images. The two images that you see here are examples where I felt that emphasising the light beams in Photoshop would be beneficial to the image. In both images, when I was in the studio taking the shots, my eye could see the light beams better …
Read MoreTutorial: Post Processing “F11 and Be There”
It’s been quite a while since I have posted on the blog, so I thought I’d get back into it with a photoshop post processing tutorial. This morning I went out with a few buddies for a shoot. What a fantastic day…. one of those days where everything comes together… forecast was for scattered showers, so I was hopeful….. on …
Read MorePresenting “Brain Squeeze” This Week In Sydney and Kiama
Hey local Sydney photographers. If any of you are around on Tuesday 1st March in Sydney, and want to attend an interesting presentation, I’m delivering my “Brain Squeeze” presentation to North Sydney Leagues Photographic Society @ 8PM (at North Sydney Leagues Club). In this presentation I share more than 20 of my very best photographic tips and tricks. A …
Read MoreThis one is for Wacom Tablet Users – 3 Great Tips!
If you have been to any of my workshops, then you know that I utterly encourage the use of pressure-sensitive tablets like the Wacoms for post processing. If your not using one, chances are you haven’t been shown how to use them properly. I thought I was reasonably decent with the tablet, but a few days ago I watched a …
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