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How to Stack Two Vertical Images in Photoshop
While Nasim is working on posting another big article on how to create a photography blog, I decided to jump in and write a quick tutorial on how to stack two vertical images in Photoshop, also known as “diptych”. I hope those of you, who already have a blog or will be creating one soon […]
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Five Minutes to Realistic HDR using Lightroom and a 32-Bit Plugin
Easy Peazy HDR in Adobe Lightroom to make realistic HDR images! HDR photography used to be time consuming, difficult to learn, and required expensive software. Recent new technology now allows anybody, even beginners, to make perfect HDR in less than 5 minutes – while eating a bowl of ice cream. It’s that easy! Using Adobe […]
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10 Tips for Landscape Photographers
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams. So many times I have pointed my camera at a landscape simply because it was there and looked beautiful. This was a a trap. I had been lured me into believing that simply taking the photograph was […]
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Thoughts on the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art
Sigma announced the new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens back in January of this year, but we were left with a couple of big unknowns such as the price. I guess it has become the latest trend to announce early development efforts by a number of manufacturers now – Nikon did the same with their […]
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How to Smoothen Skin and Get Rid of Blemishes
Many of our readers ask me how I smoothen skin and get rid of blemishes. While the manual process below is fairly simple, there are some available presets and programs that could be utilized to help streamline the process for photographers. Many professionals though (including myself) prefer to have a full control over the image […]
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A Concise Guide to Lightroom Develop Presets
The Presets panel (found in the left-hand panels in the Develop module) is one of the most useful in Lightroom. The most obvious benefit of Develop Presets is that they can save you time, which is always a good thing. But they do more than that, including help you maintain a consistent approach to post-processing […]
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Composing Dynamic Landscape Images
As a landscape photographer I am constantly seeking that next X-factor shot – an image that leaps from the screen or page and demands the viewer’s attention – preferably attention of the favourable variety. If you spend an hour or two on a photosharing site like Flickr viewing landscape images in un- curated groups you […]
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The Question of 18-300mm Lenses, Part Deux
Sigma announced the new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens back in January of this year, but we were left with a couple of big unknowns such as the price. I guess it has become the latest trend to announce early development efforts by a number of manufacturers now – Nikon did the same with their […]
