Processing Techniques – Photography Tutorials

Layers and Masks – Photoshop Editing

Kirkjufell Summer

Layers and Masks From my experience of using Adobe Photoshop, Layers…

Basic Photo Edits – Levels & Curves

Adjusting Levels & Curves In basic photo editing, the options to…

Using black & white for better colour photos

Here you can see the effect on blending mono layers on the right.

If you are crazy for colour photography it can be crazy to leave the world of mono out in the cold.

Goðafoss Waterfall – 175 Second Long Exposure Photography

I love visiting Goðafoss Waterfall in the late Summer. The sunset colours work so well with this dynamic, North Iceland waterfall. I was facing West around 20.30 on this September evening on a tour around Iceland.

Svartifoss Waterfall Iceland – Panorama Photography

Final adjustments include a boost in the shadows so that the big shadow bottom right is not so hard.

Svartifoss Waterfall Skaftafell National Park, East Iceland This panorama photo was…

Northern lights HDR photography

Northern lights are a real treat for the travel photographer, but what’s the point if you can’t see the landscape your are visiting? This post looks at the HDR technique and how it can be used at night for Northern lights.

Jokulsarlon Night Panorama – Icelandic Northern Lights

Northern lights can add an extra dimension to night photography because they add strong colours and depth to the sky. This post looks at processing an Aurora panorama.

Diamond Ice Beach + Lightroom Graduated Filter

Glacier Ice on the Dimond Beach - East Iceland.

One of the things I love to do with recent Lightroom versions is to play with low contrast adjustments and introducing de-haze.

Ice and Auroras – creative photoshop blending

Photoshop Blending For creative abstracts. Abstract Ice This photograph was from…

Red Blaze Aurora – Fjallsarlon Iceland – Iceland Night Exposure

Although the Northern lights require a long exposure, the object is often to reduce exposure time as much as possible to achieve a usable exposure and with minimal star trails.

Photoshop Luminosity Masks – video tutorial -Ice Beach Method

Ice beach method This is a photoshop technique to enhance colours…

Lightroom workflow – review of “Through the woods” preset plugin

Unprocessed image.

“Through the woods” is a workflow for Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom by SleekLens. It has been designed for landscape photography and with modern digital solutions.