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Managing Your Photographic Legacy: Part 2
Taking a long-term perspective on creating your digital archive Managing your images is easy as long as you’re methodical about the process. Practice good habits, and it becomes second nature. The key...
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Still Motion
Andrew Kornylak embraces the multimedia possibilities of modern digital cameras Kornylak’s unique twist on still photography and video is that he has combined the two to offer clients “Stillmotion.”...
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Blur Color Noise In Photoshop
Try this simple but powerful technique to make a cleaner-looking image 1) Background with noise When you have noise in an image, there’s a lot you can do about it. There are many ways you can reduce...
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Digital Manipulation And The Flair Of Subtlety
As digital photography struggles for legitimacy in the fine-art world, we examine the role of image manipulation to evoke an emotional response from your audience Digital photography has transformed...
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Hybridized!
A photographer who can deliver a still shoot and a video shoot simultaneously is a photographer who’s in demand and commanding a high fee. Michael Grecco is doing it and putting HD DSLR technology to...
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Lose Noise With Plug-Ins
Caponigro explains why and how he uses Noiseware 1) Before; 2) after 3) Noise Profile Information 4) Preferences Who doesn’t have noise? If you don’t run into noise in your digital images, at least...
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Wet-Plate Digital?
In a world of megapixels, bit depths and color spaces, Jody Dole is making art by mixing current photo technology with the state of the art from 1860 Cowboy Rich photographed at Camp Tintype, Dundee,...
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Reduce Noise With Multiple Shots
Use Photoshop Layer Stacks to clean up an image 1) Scripts menu Got noise in one exposure? Make a bunch of exposures and watch the noise disappear. You can reduce noise in an image by combining...
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The End Of Film Capture, The Future Of Film Archives
Frans Lanting had a large archive of film images when he made the transition to digital capture. The National Geographic photographer describes how he made that transition and how his film images...
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Master Your Image Library
Working on location, travel and generally being mobile require you to rethink how you can best manage your image library for maximum access To merge, or not to merge. That is the question. Imagine a...
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Noise–Lose It
Dark slides for hot pixels 5) Final noiseless image 1) Image with hot-pixel noise Some noise is random; some noise is fixed. Hot-pixel noise is fixed. What are “hot pixels”? Photosites on digital...
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The Art Of Elimination
Crop or retouch 1) First exposure 2) Second exposure As visual communicators, we’re responsible for everything that’s in the frame; we’re also responsible for everything that’s not in the frame....
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Color Theory Explained
Having a solid understanding of digital color theory will make you a better all-around photographer. Digital expert John Paul Caponigro explains the ins and outs. 1) The Adobe color picker is...
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Blend It Out!
How to erase unwanted moving objects from a scene It’s a perfect shot! If only those unwanted moving objects (UMOs, i.e., a person or a crowd) in the scene would disappear. As long as the unwanted...
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Color Printing Technique
The leap from computer monitor to printed output is where most professionals experience issues of color shift and a loss of punch in a photograph. Los Angeles-based pro Lee Varis takes us through the...
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Take A Bite
Adding food photography to your repertoire can boost your marketability. Lou Manna literally wrote the book on how to do it. The art of food photography requires skill in several disciplines, not least...
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Using Lens Profiles
Correct a variety of distortions with Adobe’s extensive database of lens information Image adjusted using lens profile corrections. Adobe’s lens profile corrections are amazing. Lens Corrections...
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Creative Sharpening, Part I
When to sharpen in your workflow Final Sharpened Image The vast majority of photographic images benefit from sharpening. Before you decide how and when to sharpen images, you need to decide why you’re...
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Air-To-Air
Niche markets can be lucrative, and enterprising photographers can find opportunity and inspiration in the clouds Wyche Coleman flies his custom Wolfpitts Pro, shot from a Piper Cherokee. To find the...
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Get More From Smart Objects
Eliminate the dreaded do-over when your client changes his or her mind by making good use of this Photoshop feature Smart Objects can be made from pixels (as this example will demonstrate), vector art...
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