Are you tired of always having to remember and find where you have your favorite textures and overlays stored on your hard drive? Why not use Libraries in Photoshop? It’s super handy and pretty easy to set up too. Not sure how to use textures or overlays in Photoshop? I
I presented a program on night sky and Milky Way photography to the Arizona Professional Photographers Association. After class time we headed out to Apache Junction south of Phoenix to put the knowledge to work. After helping my students with ideas on composition and focus, I made some images for
This is the follow-up to the Milky Way Stars noise reduction: Stars article from a couple days ago. Foreground noise reduction is a different beast and needs to be tamed in a different way. Here’s how I take care of it. Capture First is the gathering of the images. In
I made this image capture when I was teaching my week long Texas School Class while we visited the Fort Worth Zoo. I didn’t have time to make sure my captures were “spot on” as I was helping my students. Soooo, my captures were somewhat less than stellar, which leads
Photography is one of the most accessible forms of art available to us today. With the prevalence of smartphones, almost anyone can capture a moment and share it with the world. But there’s a difference between taking a snapshot and creating a photograph. The former is simply a record of
You probably know by now that I enjoy infrared photography. While this post is shot with an infrared-converted camera, I’m sharing a technique to get everything in focus in your image. A super depth of field is achieved working this way. Capture Using a long lens to compress a scene
How do you extend your backdrop or background in Lightroom and Photoshop, especially when you’re shooting in the studio and the backdrop isn’t overly large? It’s a problem I frequently have and so do many of my students. So I thought I’d put a little video together on how you
When you buy a fast lens with a bright aperture, like f/1.8, you go crazy making photos with a super-shallow depth of field. You photograph flowers where only one stamen is in focus, and you shoot people with super blurry backgrounds, and it’s lots of fun using the thin slice
You can create star trails in Photoshop in three easy steps. It’s really quite easy! Star trails are magical. They show the celestial movements of the stars over a long period of time. And they’re easy to create. You’ve taken some photos of the night sky in succession, one right
Huntin’ Season is on for the Galactic Core of the Milky Way. That means it’s time to capture foregrounds in dark sky situations for your blends. I’ve got a pretty slick way to help make noise a non-factor in your final image. Possibilities with some light Ideally, when you capture
Why should you photograph in color if you want an image to be black and white? After all, if we know we want black and white, what does it matter? Photographing in color, converting to black and white later With most digital cameras, I would encourage you to photograph in
Are you a bit of a cloud chaser? Ever since I was a kid I loved looking at and watching clouds. Making shapes and just watching them float or in some cases fly by. On a recent holiday to Kangaroo Island (South Australia), I loved the wide open skies and
