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New Masterclass — Sydney Buses Concept to Completion

by The Editor December 9th, 2011

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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New Tutorial — The Soft Glow Effect

by The Editor December 4th, 2011

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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New Tutorial — The Importance of Common Pixels

by The Editor August 4th, 2011

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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New Tutorial — Monitoring Channel Clipping

by The Editor July 31st, 2011

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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The “Hand Made” Viewfinder

by The Editor July 29th, 2011

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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Tripod Setup for Shooting Digital Panoramics

by The Editor July 27th, 2011

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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Setting up a polariser on a rangefinder camera

by The Editor July 21st, 2011

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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Shooting Mid Morning on a 617 camera

by The Editor July 21st, 2011

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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New Tutorial — Apply ACR presets to numerous images.

by The Editor May 22nd, 2011

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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New Photoshop Tutorial — Batch Processing Camera RAW files bypassing ACR

by The Editor May 19th, 2011

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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