digital photography – Photography Tutorials

Cold Climates – Photography in Arctic Conditions

It is important to keep your feet warm and dry as possible. It is worth investing in strong hiking boots which have good waterproof qualities. If you can, finger a bit of waterproof wax around all the material and stitching on your boots.

Magic Lantern Firmware – Canon 5D mark II

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For Canon Cameras, there is a FREE firmware called Magic Lantern. Magic Lantern is an enhanced upgrade to the Canon DSLR firmware. If you have a Canon DSLR and like experimenting with digital technology, then Magic Lantern could be for you.

Photoshop Luminosity Masks – video tutorial -Ice Beach Method

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

Mother of a Morning – Glacier Beach Iceland

Nacreous clouds are ice particles high up in the atmosphere that catch sunlight long before sunrise. They are also known as Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) or Mother of Pearl clouds because they glow with a variety of pearl like colours.

January Star – Icelandic Ice Beach

It was horrible conditions that brought about this beauty. We were sand blasted and windswept on the black sand beach, day 2 of a 3 day tour.

Colour Ripples – Glacier Ice on Diamond Beach

We caught the tail end of the overnight storm at Jokulsarlon Diamond Ice Beach. The wind & sand created incredible scalloped textures in the fresh glacier ice.

Luminosity Masks – Ice beach method – Advanced Photoshop

The aim of this image editing technique is to enhance colours, to give them that contrast colour while maintaining a natural contrast.

Magic Cloth Trouble shooting

Though this technique produces some beautiful images for me, it is not without it’s issues.

Night Photography 2 – overcoming the darkness

Night photography is a challenging hobby. You are taking a picture in conditions where you can barely see your camera. You have to wait around in the coldest part of the day for long periods of time and all those minutes could be wasted if you don’t plan to overcome the basic obstacles which shooting in the dark can present.

Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion

Convert to mono in Lightroom to assist the Graduated filter.

This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black…

Photoshop basics – simple colour correction

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Colour Correction This is a quick and simple technique for correcting…

Create a photoshop action – Colour boost

Photoshop actions are great short cuts. It is worth going to the trouble of learning how make them for the time they will save in the long run.

Focusing Landscapes – Hyperfocal distance

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Hyperfocal distance involves careful focusing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus.