Better Quality Night Sky Images Using Luminosity Masks
Digital cameras have revolutionized our ability to create images of the night sky. Using film, there are essentially two ways to expose a night sky image. One is to leave the camera shutter open for a LONG time on a fixed tripod. This technique creates star trails as...
How to Decide if Your New Photo is Ready for the Eyes of the World
The fast-paced world of online photo sharing and the conveniences of digital development have combined to encourage increasingly rapid and frequent production of photographs, an approach that is very likely to favor quantity over quality. Indeed, most social media...
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...
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...
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...
Quick and Easy Exposure Blend Technique
Exposure blending has become a regular tool in the digital darkroom for a lot of photographers. Exposure blending allows you to create an image of a scene in which the dynamic range of light was too great to record in a single exposure. Instead of blown out highlights...
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