Radial Filter And The Range Mask
For this week’s article from Photo Cascadia I decided to make a video on a favorite tip that I use in Adobe Camera RAW. This video demonstrates how to use the Radial filter in combination with the Range Mask. The Range Mask is a tool that allows you to make your...
The Power of a Photography Project
I’m the kind of person who likes a narrower focus on my photography. Photo projects keep me engaged and often lead to bigger things, like my Japanese Garden project that lead to two books, numerous print sales, gallery exhibitions, speaking engagements, interviews,...
Levels and Curves Adjustments In Photoshop: Which One Is Better?
As I have said many times, Photoshop is perhaps the most powerful and flexible tool for developing photographs, but it is also complex and not always intuitive. Even though Photoshop has been around for decades now, many of us are just getting into it and even for...
Best New Features in Camera RAW 12.3 For Photographers
In June 2020, Adobe made a significant upgrade to both Adobe Camera RAW 12.3 and Adobe Lightroom Classic. Most of the updates were long overdue. Although there were many changes, I will only be focusing on the upgrades that concern nature photographers. To upgrade, go...
Minimalist Landscapes – Why They Are Not Always Easy
As any landscape photographer knows it’s easy to be overwhelmed and enthralled by the natural beauty we see around us any time we are out in the field. With this comes the temptation to want to include many elements that you see in any given scene. When done right...
The Lure of the Overlooked
“Nature is full of pictures, and they are to be found in what appears to the uninitiated the most unlikely places.” P.H. Emerson Like landscape photographer P.H. Emerson, I am one to avoid crowds while photographing and I enjoy the hunt for the image almost as much as...
Clouds
“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It’s clouds’ illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all” Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now Over the years, I’ve fallen in love with photographing endlessly different and...
How To Correct Wide-Angle Perspective Distortion In Photoshop
In this tutorial, I show how to correct a common issue in landscape photography, image distortion caused when the camera is tilted down while using a wide-angle lens. Sweeping wide-angle landscapes with a close foreground subject and a middle ground leading to...
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