Posts Tagged ‘techniques’

Without flash, you are at the mercy of the ambient light … and most of the time, you’ve got a mixture of tungsten (orange), fluorescent (green), daylight (gold to white to blue depending on time of day/cloud cover) and CFL bulbs (which can be any of the above colors).
The only way to get control of [...]

The phrase “dynamic range” refers to the variance between the brightest and darkest points in a photograph. The human eye has the ability to see details within a very broad dynamic range – in fact, the dynamic range that the human eye can discern details within is at least twice as broad as the best [...]

A common problem with indoor photography is that the view outside the window is usually blown out. In order to achieve balance while shooting inside, looking out through a window, you have to think of what you are seeing through the view finder as if it were two separate exposures – the outside world (being [...]

Last Autumn, I stumbled across a series of steps in Photoshop which produced some absolutely stunning results.

The photo below – of a friend’s daughter – was my first accidental encounter with what I later learned was a technique invented by Landscape photographer Michael Orton many years ago.

The technique essentially uses multiple layers – each slightly [...]