With photography quite often the photographer can see the final image they want to create even before they take the first shot.

In this tutorial we discuss the concept of our final shot, the filters used to slow down the shutter speed, how the images were captured using the Shutter Blending technique and then the Photoshop post production required to put it all together using a series of masks and then finished off with some luminosity masks for shadows and colour.

This tutorials can be found in the “Masterclasses” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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Quite often you will see images online on websites like flickr etc where the landscape image has a nice softness about it, but at the same time still sharp. Well in this tutorial we show you how we go about applying this technique to a shot for both web presentation and for print.

We explain why this should be done as the last step of your workflow and not applied to your master print file and how it should be done once your image has been resized.

This is one of those Wow techniques that you will just love using over and over again.

This tutorials can be found in the “Retouching Techniques” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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When shooting digital panoramics out in the field you have to be mindful of how those images are going to be aligned in your stitching software.

In this tutorial we look at the issues that arise when you don’t have enough common information (pixels) between two images and how you can solve that problem out in the field.

You are showen two examples of a digital panoramic taken at the same location, one shot well and the other that could have been improved and to correct it would need a lot more attention in Photoshop to repair.

This tutorials can be found in the “Shooting Digital Panoramics” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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Being able to monitor whats happening with your image in terms of clipping channels while editing is critical to making sure your images integrity in terms of avoiding pure whites and blacks is done as you process your work.

In this tutorial we show you a simple little trick where you can do this so you can add or remove luminosity to your images and see the effect it is having on the channels that make up your photo.

This tutorials can be found in the “Retouching Techniques” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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A prized piece of equipment that all digital panoramic shooters would like to get their hands on is a viewfinder that comes with owning a fix lens film system so they could preview scenes prior to setting up and shooting them.

Well once you see this tutorial you wont need to want one. When owning the G617 with the fixed camera viewfinder Matt Lauder got sick and tired of having to pull the camera out seach time to view the scene to see if it worked or not. So he devised a simple way to preview every scene without needing the camera.

This tutorials can be found in the “Shooting Digital Panoramics” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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The key to shooting high quality digital panoramics starts with the setting up of your equipment to get a refined result.

In this tutorial Matt Lauder covers what leveling equipment he uses to shoot his digital panoramics and the setup of the tripod and tripod head so they give him the best results.

This tutorials can be found in the “Shooting Digital Panoramics” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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When you don’t have the ability to look through the lens with rangefinder cameras you understanding and placement of filters has to come down to experience, touch and a few little tricks and tips.

In this tutorial Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder shows you a simple way to set up your polariser on your camera so that everytime you take a shot your polarisation is exactly what you wanted and there is no guessing or wasting shots with too little or too much polarisation.

This tutorials can be found in the “Film Lovers” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder takes you through the full light meter reading process for a mid morning coastal shoot using a dedicated light meter, a polariser and the Fuji G617 with Velvia 50 slide film. Explaining the steps and considerations he uses in deciding on the final camera settings for the exposure.

After the capture Matt then shows you the final scanned RAW image from the shoot in photoshop and points how the factors he considered in the field have worked perfectly as planned giving the final result.

This tutorials can be found in the “Film Lovers” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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So you have a whole bunch of images shot in RAW and you want to apply the same Adobe Camera Raw editing / adjustments to them all to save yourself a lot of time.

So in this tutorial we create a Camera Raw preset of our image adjustments and then apply that preset to all our images with only having to open one image in ACR to make the initial preset.

This tutorials can be found in the “Tips and Tricks” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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A problem encounted when batch processing RAW files with an action you have created in Photoshop through Adobe Bridge is the programs need to open every file in Adobe Camera RAW first. After that it will then run the action and prompt you again to process the next file in ACR.

This totally defeats the purpose of the batch process to simplify the time consuming process of editing bulk RAW images at once. In this tutorial we show you how to create the right action and then to process all your selected RAW files using your action and totally avoiding the ACR prompt.

Might sound tricky but its very easy.

This tutorials can be found in the “Tips and Tricks” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

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