Contrast is one of the most powerful tools in photography. It’s what gives an image depth, dimension, and impact. When used well, contrast can make a portrait leap off the screen or print, drawing the viewer’s eye exactly where you want it to go. But when misused or overlooked, an
Dynamic range is of the biggest buzzwords we usually encounter whenever the latest and greatest camera comes up. A lot of reviews emphasize — or even swoon at — dynamic range in their roll call of features. Advances in technology have indeed bestowed today’s digital cameras with impressive dynamic range,
What does Radiant Photo’s “Light Diffusion” do? And how can it help your photos? We have a look at what it can offer. What does Radiant Photo do? When you open an image, Radiant Photo analyzes each image and suggests edits that it feels is best for each photo. Rather
I often see photographers misusing an important piece of gear, and it’s one of the simplest tools in your bag. Many lenses come with a lens hood, and right now I’ll show you why you have it and why you should be using it. What does a lens hood do?
Dodging and burning is a powerful way to add dimension, color, brightness, darkness and more. I will show you two simple ways to do this in Photoshop. 50% gray dodge and burn This is a great way to non-destructively accentuate the highlight and darkness on an image. Here are the
The first thing you should do when you start to make a landscape photo is to ask yourself, “What do I like about this picture?” The answer will guide you when you make the picture with the camera, and it will guide you when you finish the picture on your
Luminar Neo‘s interface offers many tools, so it may be easy to overlook the Supercontrast tool hiding down at the bottom in the Professional tools. But don’t think for one second that this tool is any less important. Supercontrast is all about giving you control. When you open the tool,
When photographers speak of contrast, the first thing that comes to mind is the contrast adjustment slider on Lightroom or other editing software. It represents the relationship between light and dark in our images. However, contrast actually applies to a bunch of other things in photography. Sydney, Australia-based travel photographer Pat
Recently in my one-on-one trainings in Capture One Pro 20 (CO20), I had a number of questions about adding contrast to a photograph that we were editing. Specifically, why is contrast important and how do you add it using the different tools in CO20? For me, adding contrast to a
When you make a picture with a digital camera, even if the camera is set to black and white, it records the picture in color and then converts it to black and white (unless you use Leica’s M camera, which only shoots in monochrome). And even if you shoot with
Thanks to our partner, Rocky Nook, for this chapter on making photos jump off the screen using conrtrast from “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Composition”. This title and many and more books for photographers are right here. Contrast is instinctive If you have ever watched a newborn baby closely, you may
Photography is about capturing a brief moment of light. A large part of the art of photography is how we control light to create an image. Not just of a moment, but for how we want that moment to appear in the photograph. We alter the appearance of light with
