Matt Lauder's introduction into Moonlight photography. This 50 minute video tutorial begins with a full outline into the research he did to shoot the location both on digital and slide film. Starting points for his digital exposures, how the moonlight will fall on the area and the best time to head out and shoot.
The tutorial then moves into a detailed look into how the shoot went with test shots and the final exposures taken. Discussing how focusing was done, experimentation with selected f stops, shutter speeds and also iso settings. The use of long exposure noise compensation in the 5D Mk II and it compared to an image with half the iso and shutter speed… how did it stack up ???
Most importantly of all he outlines what he learnt and what he would do differently next time. Learning not necessary from mistakes but finding improvements in your work flow to make your next shoot better in certain areas. For Matt the exposure was exactly what he wanted but his DOF could be improved and this is discussed on how it will be approached next time.
Matt processes three files from RAW to final print ready master files as well. The editing of the slide film shots is not covered in this tutorial, only the settings used for the capture.
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 […]
