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Sharpening With HDR Software
Enhance detail by boosting the differences between neighboring tones HDR software is most typically used to render shadow and highlight detail, but it also can be used to enhance tonal separation and...
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Proper Exposure Matters!
Translating the film-based Zone System to a digital way of shooting and seeing There are differences between the way film responds to quantities of light and how a digital sensor responds. The Zone...
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The Frame Itself
Explore the expressive possibilities of aspect ratio The proportion of an image's frame (or aspect ratio) is a fundamental part of the statement it makes. Aspect ratio influences the way both the...
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Viva Lucha Libre!
How Douglas Sonders used an iPad to build trust and photograph the colorful cast of characters of the Mexican wrestling community Douglas Sonders is one of the most accomplished professional...
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Beyond ETTR And HDR
32-bit processing in Lightroom 9) The final image rendering 8) Five-shot exposure-bracketing sequence, plus 32-bit merge in Lightroom To one degree or another, we've all been underexposing our digital...
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Extended Depth Of Field
Focus stacking defeats the limits of optics How deep would you like your depth of field? The choice is yours. Today, there are virtually no limits. You can extend depth of field beyond the physical...
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Manage The Blur
How to use shutter angles for creative control in your motion-capture work Above and below: in these two scenes at the track, you can see the effect of using different shutter angles. These are frame...
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Extending Format
These techniques are for much more than panoramas No one needs to learn to "think outside the box" more than photographers. The frame, literally a box, is often our greatest ally. Learning to see...
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Take More Control Over Highlights & Shadows
Use new controls in Lightroom 4 and Adobe Camera Raw 7 to fine-tune the yin and yang of your photographs Just when you're becoming comfortable with image controls in your editor of choice, an update...
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iPhone Photojournalism
Michael Christopher Brown uses an unlikely device to create iconic news photos that wouldn’t be possible with a DSLR Inside a club in Goma, Congo, where cameras weren't allowed. When journalists use...
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How To Go Big
Get more resolution from your camera with these three key techniques: Upsample, Stack, Stitch 1) Images with low-frequency detail can be upsampled dramatically There are several ways to get more...
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Cover Shot: Learning To Relax
Markus Klinko and Indrani continue to broaden their horizons while returning to what matters the most: the image Markus Klinko and Indrani have created absolutely iconic portraiture of everyone from...
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DNG File Format & DNG Converter
In this excerpt from his book, digital master photographer and Photoshop Alpha-tester Jeff Schewe demystifies the DNG format for today and for the future Given the very real problem of the rapid...
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Old School For The New School
An analog wet-plate processing primer for digital photographersThe resurgence of wet-plate photography among young photographers is about reconnecting with the process, as well as seeing the results....
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Dividing The Frame
An analog wet-plate processing primer for digital photographers 1a, 1b) Before and after cropping The four most important lines of any image are the ones that are often least recognized consciously:...
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Heresy In Library Organization
Keep track of an ever-expanding digital archive by getting things right from the start Scanning the horizon, there are so-called workflow tutorials everywhere you look. Each and every one of them is...
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DPP Solutions: Blog It!
Try this simple method for exporting photos directly from Lightroom to a WordPress blog The LR/Blog plug-in streamlines the process of posting multiple images to your blog. I'm a photographer, and I...
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Animate your Stills
The latest trend for photos online is making parts of them move. We’ll show you how to do it. 1) To work with video files, you need Photoshop to be in 32-bit mode. Right-click on the application and go...
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Blending Channels
In the first of two articles, we examine the fundamentals of this powerful Photoshop tool 1) Before blending channels, underexposure causes shadow problems. 2) After blending channels, detail is...
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Time-Lapse Primer
Preston Kanak takes us through the skills, steps and gear to making your first time-lapse Some of the most popular time-lapse subjects are nature scenes. For your first forays into this kind of...
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