Split Toning With Luminosity Masks
(Note: I published the video that accompanies this article on my YouTube Channel in June, so if you are a subscriber over there you may have already seen it.) Split toning is a process in photography of adding one color to the shadows and a different color to the...
Visual Flow
I was looking through several of my favorite images from the past 6 months and I noticed a pattern. Many of them have a visual flow I find interesting. Visual flow is the natural way your eye will move through an image. Some compositions will have obvious elements...
Photography – Learning the Hard Way
Most of what you see and read around photography talks about our successes and showcases only our best work. This isn’t surprising as we prefer to show off the good, not the bad, if are trying to capture another person’s split-second attention before the next shiny...
Top Ten Tips For Successful Wildflower Photography
My favorite time of the year for photographing nature is always wildflower season in the summer. There are many reasons why it’s my favorite season. The best reason is that you have an excuse to get out of the house and into nature. In the Pacific...
Photographing The Faroe Islands
In April 2018 I had the opportunity to photograph on the Faroe Islands with fellow photographers Raynor Czerwinski and Josh Merrill. The video below is a behind the scenes look at our trip set to music (if you are viewing this article via email you need to view it on...
Photoshop/TKActions Quick Tip: Cloud Sculpting
In this short video tutorial, I share a quick and easy Photoshop tip for sculpting contour and depth into clouds using luminosity selections and dodging and burning layers generated with the TKActions V6 panel. It’s a simple but powerful way to give...
BenQ SW320: 4K Photo Editing Monitor Review
New Update: read to the bottom of the article to see PhotoJoseph’s video review of this monitor. BenQ contacted me to see if I would be interested in trying out one of their Adobe RGB 4K photo editing monitors. 4K resolution is 3840×2160. My previous main...
Creative Applications of Color Theory in Landscape Photography
“When I began to see the overall picture of what was happening, it changed my entire perception of photography…I had mistakenly thought grass was green.” – Galen Rowell Discussions of many photography topics have the potential to veer deep into complex technical...
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