If you regularly shoot landscapes, you’ll soon make a discovery that seems obvious when you think about it – the sky is much brighter than the land. This is a real problem when you’re taking photos of sunsets, especially when the sun is still above the horizon. The sky is so bright …
Are you looking for a quick and easy way to convert colour photos to black and white in Photoshop? Then plugins may be the answer. In an earlier article I looked at the most common ways to convert colour photos to black and white in Photoshop CS. The best methods …
Ever since Esquire introduced it’s trademark covers, high-pass filters and exaggerated sharpness have become very popular tools to work with. The variety of ways to use the technique is simply endless and, due to a vast amount of adjustment layers and tweaks introduced with Photoshop CS4, every slightest change made is different and…
Every time that I look through the most recent photos posted by my Flickr contacts, I see the results of a popular post-processing technique: adding textures to your photos. It seems that almost no photo is complete until it has been post-processed and textured by the photographer. Done well, …
Wide-angle lenses do a number of things very well – one of them is the ability to keep near and far objects in focus, and present the landscape in a striking light.
In this tutorial, I will be introducing an unconventional way of printing known as “lumen printing”. “Lumen” is understood as the projection of light radiating from one ominous source, i.e. sunlight, or UV light. This is particularly pertinent to this method of printing as it utilizes available light (daylight) as opposed…
In this tutorial, I will be going through a black and white printing process that does not require a great deal of equipment, time or money. This process is called contact printing, used for creating photograms (a photographic image made without a camera). This process does not require the use of a photographic enlarger nor is it …
It takes a lot of ambition, interest, and curiosity to have the drive to go back to the traditional roots of photography and get stuck into manual photographic printing and processing. For me, however, I find this to be an utterly rewarding process in my constant exploration of the medium. In this tutorial, I will go through the…
Black and white photography is a beautiful medium and an artform practised by some of the world’s greatest photographers. But newcomers to black and white photography, however much they enjoy it, may miss one thing – colour. The good news is that it’s easy to add colour to black…
