When the lights go out the world takes on a whole new look and the skills and techniques of shooting during the day go out the window and your faced with a whole new set of variables.
This section of the site focuses on the shooting and processing techniques for capturing images under all kinds of moonlight, how to shoot static and streaking star trails, combining both sunrise and sunset light with stars, shooting and processing panoramic images taken in the middle of the night and more.
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Shooting at night is an exciting way to spend your evening and to get really creative with what you can do in camera and then bring it all to life back home on screen. In this tutorial we discuss the capture technique used to... read more
In this 50 minute video tutorial Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder begins with a full outline into the research he did to shoot the location both on digital and slide film. Starting points for my digital exposures, how the... read more
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A masterclass totally different from the rest as this panoramic stitch is taken at night using only moonlight for illumination. Our RAW files are firstly processed through Lightroom 2 and then sent to Photoshops Photomerge from... read more
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The problem with shooting long exposures for star movement on digital is the issue of long exposure noise which creates unpleasant marks through the image. The way around it is to stack numerous exposures that have been taken... read more
December 9, 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 […]
December 4, 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 […]
