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...
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