Strong neutral density filters are great for landscape photography when you want to allow motion blur to occur. But they can be expensive and hard to find. Lately I’ve been exploring using longer exposures in my landscape photography to produce motion blur in waves, trees, clouds and flowing water. I’ve been testing a number of …
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A day out shooting at Hanging Rock with my infrared converted Canon 350D camerarnHanging Rock is an amazing place. Though most people have heard of it as a result of the amazing fictional book and movie, Hanging Rock is a weird place in real life. [geo_mashup_map] Last Saturday we went for a family drive through …
Keeping track of things is a major task but considerably easier with the right support. Photographers and artists have a lot of things to do. When this activity is also a business the issue is bigger. All of these activities can be well tracked on paper. Paper works and can certainly be carried anywhere with …
Mark Alberhasky looks at using point and shoot cameras and comes to the conclusion it is all in the photographer, not in the gear. Most serious photographers base their approach to the medium on the premise that fine quality work requires advanced, expensive equipment. This attitude has its roots in decades of experience where high …
Mark Alberhasky looks at the value of planning and practice in photography. Anyone who has ever studied photographs has seen images whose timing seems to defy the odds. Photojournalists regularly document the world with photos that many of us simply don’t think we’d ever be capable of making. While some of their skill is unquestionably …
There is the temptation to believe that you don’t need any filters for your digital camera, that you can do it all in Photoshop. But at least one is, in my view, essential for digitals, the circular polarizing filter. In my film days my camera bag was filled with filters, and filter systems, such as …
We don’t normally think of using polarizing filters when shooting infrared but I decided to try it out. Regular readers will know that I shoot a lot of digital infrared work, both with a converted for IR Canon 350D and with unconverted digital cameras that I have in for testing. I was testing circular polarizing …
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In this last, extra part, I cover how to determine just how much blur is enough? One thing I haven’t covered in this series was how to determine just how much to blur the image. So let’s cover that now. This is the way I work: 1. Open the Camera RAW (I always work in …
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Concluding our exploration of Layers, Gaussian Blur and Blending Modes, Part 4 explores the topic of when and why you might choose to use this approach. Before: Over the last three articles we have explored various ways to create a particular look and how do we do it. In this, last, article, I want to …
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Continuing our exploration of Layers, Gaussian Blur and Blending Modes, Part 3 explores the approach that I prefer. In this article we explore a couple of additional ways of doing it, including the one I prefer. It can be more complex but it offers much more control.Variation 3 – Use a Selection Based on Color …
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