I thought I would pose a question this week. Should you ask permission to photograph people in public places? I have posted an image or two after the jump to get the discussion going and I will be interested to hear what you think!
My good friend Peter Ellis describes wedding photography as “an all day portrait session at 100mph” and he is not wrong. Following on from the Location Scouting for Photographers post last week. I thought I would talk about how I plan for a wedding. my basic shooting list, and my thought process in relation to the post production and the Photoshop side of things, whilst I am shooting the wedding.
Inspiration is a wonderful tool for making better pictures. So check out these photographers for lighting, composition, subject, theme, expression, colour, post-processing etc. Learn from them and maybe borrow an idea or two, but remember to make those ideas your own… Enjoy!
I have been using Lightroom since the first beta launch way back in the day… I didn’t like it much when it first came out for various reasons. But needless to say those reasons dissolved away when Lightroom 2 came out in the summer of 2008, but I did not go back to Lightroom until late 2008 when I started on the Big Picture project.
I have put back the smart sharpening article until Sunday… In the meanwhile the conversion of the garage continues with the Greg and I sealing the concrete floor ready for painting. We have put together a little video for you entertainment.
Last Tuesday I started the conversion of my double garage into a photographic studio and I thought I would share the journey that many of us take as that next step from working at home and shooting clients on location, to having a studio where clients can come to us for a portrait session.
In this screencast I will be showing you how to create a “Lomo” effect with Photoshop CS4. I have included an action from the settings used in the screencast for you to download and try out on your own images.
Now that you know how I shot the assignment in The Falconer and Owl Composite – Part 1. Lets take an in-depth look at how the composite was created in Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Keeping in the spirit of last Thursdays screencast about making a Channel Mask I thought I would take things up a level and give you a step by step guide to how I created the Falconer and Owl composite starting with the photography, lighting and a behind the scenes video of the shoot.
My new Lastolite Ezybox softbox arrived in the post the other day and I took time out from finalizing the new website to take a few shots of my son Julian. The impromptu shoot only lasted a few minutes, but out of it I got some goofy shots that I decided would look great as canvas print. So in this article I will discuss both the photography and Lightroom 2 / Photoshop techniques I used to achieve a simple yet very effective sequence of images into a canvas print.
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