Photo Editing Photography Education Photoshop Techniques How to Maximize Your B&W Photography This photo was taken at Kerry Park in Seattle. I was helping a professional photographer with a workshop she was doing. Seeing Seattle from this viewpoint I thought this could be a good B&W photo. I was shooting with a GFX 100s. ISO 100 – 1 sec exposure – f9 with 64 mm focal length. […] Written by Rick Jacobi December 17, 2024October 8, 2024
Photography Photography Education Photoshop Techniques How To Do a Light Paint Technique on an Airplane This image of a 1947 Piper Cub was created using a technique called Light Painting. This is a unique method of photography that highlights the subject in a way not possible through any other photography style or technique. It is somewhat complex because of the capture method and assembling the captures in post processing. We […] Written by Stacy Holbert July 11, 2024May 7, 2024
Photography Photography Education Photoshop Unraveling the Visionary World of Marina Proskurina’s Digital Creations introduction by Mark Weber, M. Photog., Cr., M. Artist, CPP Recently I was looking through the 2022 PPA Image Excellence book for some inspiration for a photographic project I was working on. I came across this wonderful image titled – “Galactic Portal” by Marina Proskurina. After contacting Marina I discovered she has several PPA award-winning […] Written by Marina Proskurina May 30, 2024May 21, 2024
Photography Photography Education Photoshop How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Photography? I have been testing Adobe’s Generative Fill in their new Photoshop Beta version. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that this technology would be achieved in my lifetime. It’s simply jaw-dropping. The Pros: There is nothing I can’t do or create effortlessly in Photoshop. Truly, my imagination is my only limit. The […] Written by Mark Weber August 3, 2023August 2, 2023
Photography Education Photoshop Techniques How to Get Started in Digital Painting Digital painting gives you the freedom to explore and try new things. Cameras are very good at capturing a scene in the present moment. Digitally photo painting can also expand the scene to express how the scene made us feel and what we imagined. As a concept artist, I understand the need to augment photography […] Written by Carly Sullens M. Artist, CPP April 20, 2023March 22, 2023
Photography Education Photoshop Techniques HDR the Easy Way Have you ever wondered how photographers create those incredible images that seemingly defy all exposure capture? That is called High Dynamic Range Images. And while my camera has that option built into it, I find that I like the results that I get using a software I purchased through a company called Photomatix –https://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html They […] Written by Mark Weber December 15, 2022December 15, 2022
Photo Editing Photography Photography Education Photoshop Techniques Connections – the Art of Restoration Composite Photography When I was a little girl, we had huge family reunions in the summer. Hundreds of aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends came from all over the country and sometimes the world just to visit. In the humid Indiana evenings, we all gathered in the living room of my grandparents’ house with the windows letting a […] Written by Aly Elliott September 20, 2022September 20, 2022
Photo Editing Photography Photography Education Photoshop Things I Can’t Believe Photoshop Can Do! Photoshop and Lightroom are every photographers best friend. We couldn’t operate without them anymore. And as long as I’ve been using both, there’s still things I can’t believe Photoshop can do. I started in the film days and I remember purchasing a book that was on Darkroom techniques that required a tremendous amount of luck […] Written by Mark Weber July 7, 2022July 18, 2022
Photo Editing Photography Photoshop Technology Out of Gamut? Have you ever had an image printed and instead of the team color blue you expected on a jersey or band uniform it came out purple? What the heck is that all about? Before you blame your color lab or your home printer (or anyone else for that matter), understand that the chances are your […] Written by Mark Weber June 16, 2022June 16, 2022
