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Other than being the editor of the Rubbing Pixels website and it's main contributor, Matt is a full time landscape photographer and teacher of the art. Matt shoots a combination of both digital and slide film on medium format panoramic cameras.
His goal with shooting and processing digital images is to match it to the colour quality seen in slide film. His tutorials work through this process, detailing every step in the creation, development and thought processes involved in making a shot happen and come to life from a RAW capture.
Matt's slide film work follows the same workflow of development in maxamising the high resolution drum scan for both colour density and also enhancing detail in shadow areas and highlights.
Self taught in both fields of capture and post production his tutorials are a combination of skills developed over 10 years and are an eye opener to the beginner or advanced photographer and photoshop user.
Matt is an accredited member of AIPP (Australian Instutute of Professional Photography)
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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, how it was achieved and then the...
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Our first masterclass for 2011 introduces you to the soft glow effect technique that is all the rage with giving your image that little bit of extra pop. The image was shot at Observatory Hill in Sydney on dusk and the RAW file...
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In this thirteen image panoramic stitch we look at the full post production workflow from RAW editing through to stitching using PS5 photomerge and then in CS5 we look at the application of colour using the Joseph Holmes DCAM3...
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...
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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....
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Sure we have luminosity masks of all shapes and sizes to select, control and manipulate tonal value in an image but what about making detailed selections of colour. Well in this tutorial we bring your attention to ...
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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. So in this tutorial we create a Camera Raw preset of our image adjustments and then apply that...
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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...
Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder takes you behind the scenes of his business and shows you how he organises and stores his RAW files and drum scans. Matt then shows you how he catalogues and assigns codes to his film...
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...
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...
Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder takes you through the full light meter reading process for a mid morning coastal shoot using a polariser and the Fuji G617 with Velvia 50 slide film. Explaining the steps
When you don't have the ability to look through the lens on rangefinder cameras such as a Fuji or Linhof 617 panoramic, your knowledge of how graduated filters need to be aligned can be critical to getting that correct...
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Sometimes when looking at an image it can look great but just adding a small amount of additional colour in the right places can make a difference. But it is how and where you apply that colour that is critical. In this...
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There is nothing worse than having a colour fringe around certain elements commonly known as Chromatic Aberration. We look at how to remove this issue in Camera RAW and also in Photoshop.
When starting out in photography finding a good starting point to capture an image on can be difficult, especially when your looking at all the great images that are flooded onto community ...
When starting out in photography finding a good starting point to capture an image on can be difficult, especially when your looking at all the great images that are flooded onto community ...
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This tutorial has been done to show how simple your editing can be to get your panoramic stitch looking good and ready for printing. From shooting a simple nice sunrise we edit the image mostly in Adobe Camera RAW and then we...
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Photoshop Elements doesn't give it's users a Colour Balance adjustment layer to work with to remove unwanted casts evident in some images and the Auto Colour Correction option is quite unflattering at the best of times and you...
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As we all know Photoshop Elements is limited in what it offers compared to it's big brother Photoshop. One limitation is channels which photoshop owners use to create luminosity masks. In this tutorial we look at what is a...
Photoshop Elements doesn't give it's users a Colour Balance adjustment layer to work with to remove unwanted casts evident in some images and the Auto Colour Correction option is quite unflattering at the best of times and you...
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Photoshop Elements is a great program but there are some features it doesn't have that Photoshop users take for granted. The main one is the ability to have layer masks on images. In this tutorial we show you a creative way to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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. ...
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 he equipment ...
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 […]
