Category: Photography Tutorials

  • Skype tutorials – Photoshop and Lightroom

    Skype tutorials – Photoshop and Lightroom

    Master Photoshop by Mastering 3 basic skills. Anybody want a one2one session over skype to go over a landscape image? I use…

  • Eliminate the Mathematics from your photo shoot

    Eliminate the Mathematics from your photo shoot

    Ask yourself, which mental trait is the opposite of “Creative”? This article encourages you to learn the mathematics, but leave it at…

  • Fibonacci and the Gods

    Fibonacci and the Gods

    Fibonacci Spirals After looking into “Golden Curves”, “Golden Ratios” or “Fibonacci Spirals” (whichever you want to call them) I have spotted a…

  • Blending modes for drama and colour

    Blending modes for drama and colour

    [dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;”] T [/dropcap]his section discusses a photoshop technique which is similar to Luminosity masking and just adds the…

  • Easy masking for landscape photoshoppers

    Easy masking for landscape photoshoppers

    Luminosity Masks Luminosity masking is such a powerful editing technique.  In this tutorial I have simplified the technique and given some creative…

  • Get high

    Get high

    As important as finding high ground is in wilderness survival, I would like to include the concept in my photography survival kit-bag.…

  • From lines come proportions

    From lines come proportions

    After learning the importance of lines in Telephoto Landscape photography, something obvious occurred to me. From those lines come proportions.

  • Ice cave photography

    Ice cave photography

    Ice caves are like magical underground secrets, but of course they are not underground, they are under the glaciers. Ice-caves can take…

  • Seeing the un-seen

    Seeing the un-seen

    One of the things I love about photography is that you are able to see things you normally wouldn’t. This is especially…

  • Magic Cloth and Milky Way Photography

    Magic Cloth and Milky Way Photography

    Milky way images are stunning, but what you see on the front page of 500px is usually the result of careful camera…

  • Aurora and foreground? Northern Lights Photography

    Aurora and foreground? Northern Lights Photography

    The Northern lights in Iceland can yield wonderful displays for your camera, but if you can include some of the landscape you…

  • My perspective

    My perspective

    PHOTOGRAPHY IS ABOUT FORCING YOUR PERSPECTIVE ONTO OTHERS: I am going to explore this statement made by one of my guests, just…

  • Aurora photography – Northern Lights Panoramas

    Aurora photography – Northern Lights Panoramas

    Combining the panorama technique with the Northern Lights can only ever be interesting. Let’s explore which conditions suit a Northern lights panorama…

  • Northern Lights – aurora colours

    Northern Lights – aurora colours

    Photographing Northern lights with a camera reveals colours that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

  • Telephoto Landscapes: the importance of lines

    Telephoto Landscapes: the importance of lines

    When I play back through my shots I see how I am working on a frame getting slightly closer to the correct…

  • Northern light photography – Controlling noise

    Northern light photography – Controlling noise

    One of the big issues with Northern Lights photos is noise. This technical article discusses photography techniques and camera settings that can…