Bracketing Exposures For Exposure Blending
By Sean Bagshaw As photographers we frequently struggle to overcome the limitations of our equipment in order to create the photographs we envision. One of the biggest limitations of traditional photography is the narrow dynamic range of light that can be contained in...
Photographing in the Goat Rocks Wilderness
Photographing in the Goat Rocks Wilderness By David Cobb The Goat Rocks are located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, between the Mt. Adams wilderness and Mt. Rainier National Park. The remnant of an old volcano which stood at over 12,000 feet is now an area of...Learning Photography From My Mistakes
By Adrian Klein In the beginning, long long ago when high end digital cameras were only 2 or 3MP (really less than 10 years ago) I had all the wrong ideas of what I needed to do to be a better photographer. It was only about four years ago that I started to figure out...
AN INTRODUCTION TO JURIED FINE ART FAIRS
By Zack Schnepf INTRODUCTION I get a lot of people asking me how I got started selling prints at fine art shows so I thought I would write about my experiences in this blog. This will be the first in a series of articles. Four years ago I was mostly a stock...
Bring Out Luminosity With A Simple Curves Adjustment Layer
By Sean Bagshaw One of the goals of my photography is to communicate the visual and emotional experiences I have during special light conditions in the natural world. Sometimes dramatic light in nature is so powerful, sunsets for example, that it quickens my pulse and...
7 Reasons I Use a Lensbaby
7 Reasons I Use a Lensbaby™ By David Cobb Lensbaby is a selective-focus lens created for digital SLRs. Here are some reasons why I like using one. 1) It creates a sense of motion: In the image of the Fu Dog below, I wanted to create a sense of motion—like the...
Don’t Forget to Look Behind You
By Adrian Klein We have all seen them, the yellow road signs as we drive warning us “caution ahead” for various reasons; rough road, children playing, aliens landing. Maybe the last one is only found near Area 51. And if we are paying attention that is normally just...
Straightening A Horizon by Kevin McNeal
Click On Video Above To See The Video Tutorial !!!!! Until recently, trying to correct an uneven horizon in Photoshop was quite complex. This has all changed now with the new updates in Photoshop CS5. Now straightening a horizon is as easy as clicking a button. In...
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