If you are familiar with Photoshop you may all ready know the basic functions of the tool palette items and some of the other commands. If you are just beginning to use the software package and want to use it simply to clean up or lightly alter your own photographs there are a few basic functions that you should take the time to learn and explore. Read the rest of this entry »

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If any of your readers are like I am, they probably have encountered the same problem I had during a recent trip. What happened was that about 5 or 10 of my first photos of the day came out either way too dark or way too light. The cause? My settings the evening before, while shooting the sunset.

• If I had opened up my aperture to capture a later shot of the sun, the photos were too dark the next morning, because I had forgotten to redo the settings on my camera from the night before.
• If I had closed down to shoot the sun earlier, right before it set, or perhaps to darken my image of the sun, and then forgot to redo the settings, the first photos the next morning would be almost black.

The obvious answer?  ALWAYS reset the camera before turning it off at the end of the day.

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks for your site and all your help.

From T. Dillon

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Most weddings will require a combination of photographic techniques, including portraiture, outdoor group photos and low light or indoor images. There are however exceptions to this standard, and these include evening weddings, and indoor weddings. Read the rest of this entry »

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Whether you are a professional or an amateur photographer, it pays to keep up with technological developments in the industry. The traditional processes of any photographic system, whether a SLR or a digital method, involve capturing an image, storing that image, editing it and finally producing a print or output. The technologies behind each part of the system will always impact the final photographic print. The newest technology rapidly under development, and one that actually applies to and appears in all parts of any photographic system, is called HDR or High Dynamic Range. Read the rest of this entry »

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