Virtual Lighting Studio
I’ve been waiting for something like this to appear for a while. It’s quite good fun to play around with to see the effect of different lighting setups. I would like to have more control over light placement (overhead view etc.) but it’s still interesting to play with different lights, gels, setups and see the effect on a 3D person. …
Read MoreA 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. …
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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). …
Read MoreEven Christian Could Nail Focus With this!
Hey check this out… this is very interesting. A camera that doesn’t rely on focus. Doesn’t sound like a scam, sounds like the real deal. If this is the case, it’s one of the biggest leaps forward in photography in a long time. http://mashable.com/2011/06/22/lytro/ Brent
Read MorePlaying About With Macro
We have had about a week of pretty constant rain here in Sydney, so that drove me into the bowels of my photographic cupboard to dust of my macro lens. I haven’t shot any macro for ages, but was reading an interesting article in Better Photography about a new utility from the folks that make Helicon Focus (the focus stacking …
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 …
Read MoreCool New Research Addition – Predict Cloud Cover
Hey Folks Somebody showed me a very cool site for predicting cloud cover. It’s a tool for astronomers, but obviously it has great uses to Landscape photographers. You can zoom in on specific parts of Australia (and other parts of the world too) and it gives you cloud cover predictions for several days in the future. now I don’t know …
Read MorePhotoshop CS5 First Impressions
I just upgraded to CS5 yesterday, thought I’d give you my first impressions. Coexistence For those of you worried about compatibility etc. the first thing to understand is that the installation of CS5 doesn’t replace earlier versions of Photoshop (or at least not my version of CS4). So you can continue to run both versions in parrallel until such time …
Read MoreA Great Tool For Photographers!
Hey folks Somebody recently pointed me to a new tool for landscape and urban photography…. so of course I was pretty interested and checked it out. In the first week that I have been using the software it has already helped me immensely and I urge you all to check it out. It is called The Photographers Ephemeris… Now I …
Read MorePhotoshop Upgrade – This is AMAZING!!!
I came across an incredible video demonstration of a new Adobe Photoshop feature called “Content Aware Fill”. In the words of my kids… “This is Sick”. You have to go check out the demo!!! If this is in CS5… I’m upgrading straight away for this feature alone. Brent
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