Advanced Photography Techniques

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Noise: Lose It, Part I Eliminate noise at the source Noise happens. There’s always some degree of noise present in any electronic device that receives or transmits a signal.  Read More...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Dialing In Skin Tone A wedding professional has some sage advice and techniques for mastering elusive skin tones For fashion, beauty, portrait and wedding photographers, the advent of digital photography has been a godsend.  Read More...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Breaking The ISO Barrier Forget the megapixel race. The real digital revolution is in low-noise/high-ISO digital capture. Low-noise/high-ISO digital capture is a relatively new phenomenon, but it already has begun to revolutionize what photographers can do with their cameras.  Read More...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Layering Noise Part 2 in a series on You can further customize any noise pattern in Photoshop using layers. When adding noise to digital files, keep noise separate from the image so you can control both independently of one another.  Read More...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 DPP Solutions: When You Need A Big File With the right software, you can increase resolution and maintain top image quality You can’t beat megapixels when you need big prints. Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition from onOne Software gives you more pixels—incredibly good pixels—from a digital image. That’s enough pixels to make a 4x6-foot print at 300 dpi from a 6-megapixel original image, or a 6x9-foot print at 300 dpi from a 12-megapixel original—or a 19x28-foot event sign at 100 dpi from a 12-megapixel image.  Read More...

Friday, April 10, 2009 Noise—Use It The first in a series of columns about controlling noise Noise. It happens. What is it? Texture not native to the subject photographed, but introduced by the capture medium, editing process or output media. There are many reasons why it happens. There are things you can do to avoid it and things you can do to reduce it. (All are subjects for the future.) But once it’s there, noise often can be hard to separate from the detail of the subject; it may obscure it. Bottom line: It’s better not to have noise. If you need noise, you can always add it later. Need noise? Yes. There are many uses for noise. Today, we have more control over noise than at any other time in the medium.  Read More...

Friday, April 10, 2009 Get In Sync Keeping files straight between your laptop and your workstation is a matter of technique. The D-65 group takes us through their highly developed procedure. “I use a laptop in the field when shooting and a desktop at the studio/home for processing and management in Lightroom. If the ‘main’ Library and Catalog live on my ‘main’ computer’s external drive in the studio/home, how do I sync the Catalog on my laptop or other computers with the ‘main’ Library and Catalog?”   Read More...

Friday, April 10, 2009 Black & White From capture to final output, there are many pieces to the puzzle for producing the ultimate black-and-white images Getting a great black-and-white print is easier than ever. Deciding the best way to get there is the hard part. The more you understand about the black-and-white process, the better the prints you’ll produce. While a single perfect method won’t work for every image, there are plenty of routes for optimizing the unique properties of individual black-and-white images. With that in mind, we take a look at black-and-white printing, from capture to final output.  Read More...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Aesthetics Of XDR Using Extended Dynamic Range techniques judiciously will keep you from taking a good thing too far HDR imagery is expanding today’s photographic aesthetics. Identifying the characteristics of contemporary HDR images will help classicists and pioneers alike. The basic ingredients are desirable for both sensibilities, but in varying combinations and to different degrees.  Read More...

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