There’s something about macro lenses and focus stacking. It makes for a memorable image because the level of detail is rendered beyond what the naked eye can see. It makes something as simple as geranium plant a fun exploration. Macro lens First up is a dedicated macro lens. The optics
You can create a great sense of mystery by light painting old vehicles on foggy, misty nights. I describe how I light-painted this old Chevrolet car in six steps. A quick word about light painting Light painting is a term that is often used loosely to describe any addition of
Light painting is a term that is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is a technique that uses a handheld light source to illuminate a scene during a long exposure. You are quite literally painting the scene with light.
We’ve all been there — a photo looks great on the back of the camera, but when you load it on a larger screen, you discover it is just a hair out-of-focus. There are several tools out there to sharpen images and bring back the appearance of detail, but in
Skylum’s LuminarAI is effective at quite a number of things including creating detail and sharpening. Although using the sliders are simple, clicking to open the menu reveals more tools that can fine-tune the sharpening of our images. Note that the examples below can also be done in Luminar 4. Opening
The StructureAI tool is great for making detail more prominent in your images. It automatically detects areas that could look richer and focuses in on them. It helps to boost things like dynamic range, texture and clarity to help you bring a bit more depth and sharpness to your scene.
Being a part of a local photowalk group, I often experiment with different techniques during our outings. One of our group leaders, Dianne Carroll Burdick, has long taught the importance of looking up and taking advantage of different perspectives. Looking up has turned into one of the most important aspects of
I recently rested Adobe’s new Super Resolution in my “Four steps to Resolution in Camera Raw” article. Naturally, my initial curiosity was about enhancing detail on night photos. But how does it do for portraits? Enhancing portrait details Almost everyone values detail in portraits. The fine details of eyelashes, the color of
It often seems that wedding photographs are more full of detail pictures than they are portraits of family and friends. And for good reason: Successful wedding photographers know that the detail pictures balance the portraits and fit beautifully in an album, which is a terrific service and a great way
You’ll be excited to learn how HDR editing is now possible with a single image and extremely useful to bring out striking details in your portraits!
When I shoot events, I rarely have great (let alone perfect) lighting. That’s why I had to find an efficient way to edit my photos that could get the most out of my RAW files. Here’s one of my favorite technique to boost shadows, recover details in highlights and bring
Shooting a set of pictures with bracketed exposures and combining them in HDR software is the best way to record all the details in a scene, even in very dark and very bright areas. The software, like Photomatix, does a great job of making all the details visible. However, there
