With the birth of the digital camera, film photographers are now an endangered species, but they are not forgotten. These tutorials relate directly to the film photographer covering the use and application of shooting slide film, using range finder cameras, 617 and 624 panoramic cameras, shooting techniques, Photoshop techniques directly related to film images and general camera operation and functionality.
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In the FlexColor software that runs the Imacon Flextight Scanners Matt Lauder goes through his process of colour correcting and adjusting a 617 tranny for its final scan. Then once in photoshop he discusses ... read more
Once your have had your film scanned you now have to go through the process of cropping, aligning and cleaning the scan making it ready for further editing if required. We show you a process of cleaning your scan so you ... read more
When shooting film you don't have the luxury of looking at the back of your camera to see how your exposure turned out. That's why it is essential that you know what your doing. Even more so if your shooting specialty films... read more
Loading your panoramic camera for the first time user can be tricky and doing it in correctly can cost you in the length of image capture and also cost you money. My camera of choice is the Fuji GX617 but this technique will... read more
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When shooting with specialized cameras that don't really fit into the conventional formats producing their files into digital images for printing can prove to be difficult. One such format is shooting with the Fotoman 6x24... read more
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... read more
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... read more
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 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 […]
