Shooting images in the RAW file format with your digital camera is imperative for producing the best possible photos. That’s because RAW is an uncompressed file format that captures all the data from the camera’s sensor – significantly more than a JPEG file – at the time of shooting. Furthermore, RAW allows the greatest degree…
Analog Efex Pro 2 was recently released by NIK Software (who are now owned by Google). I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, and as pretty impressed, so I thought I’d put together a tutorial to give people an overview of this software. I should point out that Analog Efex Pro 2…
Double exposures have been around a long time, they gained a lot of traction and popularity in the golden age of film-based photography, but started to fall from grace when the digital era began in earnest. However, in recent years double exposures have made a comeback, they are seemingly everywhere now, and most-recently seen on…
Shooting in the golden hour can have a transformational effect on your landscape photography. The light is fantastic, with warm golden tones giving your images a welcome touch of magic. In fact, the golden hour is often referred to as the magic hour, and with good reason. In this article we’re going to look at…
Long exposures can be a great way to add real drama to your landscape and seascape photography. There are a whole host of different techniques possible, whether you are exposing for just a couple of seconds to add motion to a waterfall, or utilising much longer exposures in order to create surreal skies, dreamlike seas,…
The rule of thirds is a classic compositional technique used for a wide-range of visual arts, from film-making, to graphic design, and of course, photography. Often experienced photographers do not adhere to the rule of thirds and still produce fantastic compositions, the rule of thirds is not a strict principle that has to be obeyed…
In this Photoshop Curves tutorial we’re going to look at a few ways that you achieve creative colour adjustments with your photographs in super-quick fashion. The Curves tool is one of the most powerful features in Photoshop. It can be used for a whole range of corrections and adjustments; including contrast adjustments, the removal of…
The Graduated Filter in Lightroom is a great tool that is commonly used for boosting contrast and detail in skies. In this tutorial we’re going to look at how you can do exactly that, but the Graduated Filter is a versatile tool, and can be used for more than just skies, so will then take…
In this Photomatix HDR tutorial I am working with Photomatix 5; the most recent version of this software. If you don’t yet have Photomatix, you can get a 15% discount on checkout by using the promo code: photophique. A high dynamic range (HDR) photograph is comprised of multiple exposures, these are then merged into one…
Developed by the team at Nik Software, Define is an excellent piece of software for reducing the amount of noise that is present in your images. In this Dfine 2 tutorial we’re going to look at a couple of different methods of noise reduction, one technique for a global change, and one with a little…