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How I Shot The Snowshoeing Photography Assignment
I am lucky in that I have had a client for 10 years. In fact I have had many clients just as long, but this one is always a lot of fun because it is always outdoor related subjects. The client is a...
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Basic Photoshop Skills – Layer Masks
I used to consider the use of Layer Masks in Photoshop to be an advanced technique, but it has become such a commonplace and important part of post-processing photos, that I now think of it as a basic...
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Basic Photoshop – Create a Split ND Effect with a Layer Mask
This is a composite of two images, combined using a layer mask in Photoshop. The graduated split neutral density filter has been a must-have filter for nature photographers for years. The filter...
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Add Blacks to Give Low Contrast Images Some “Pop”.
Shot in low-contrast, overcast light, this colorful scene lacks pop, but that can easily be fixed in post-processing. If you shoot photos in even lighting situations (like on a foggy or overcast day),...
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Lacking Clarity.
By applying a negative amount of clarity to this image in Lightroom, I achieved a soft, ethereal look in this photo. For most of my career, I was an Ansel Adams devotee with my landscape photography,...
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Color workflow – Image Editing and output
In the previous segments, we have discussed color spaces and profiling your monitor. Now we will discuss how to set Photoshop and Lightroom for best color space use. First, Lightroom. Lightroom...
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Developing in Lightroom 4.
If you follow photography at all on-line, you probably have noticed that Adobe released Lightroom 4 today. Surprisingly, they’ve lowered the price dramatically from when Lightroom 3 was originally...
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Five Things Every New Lightroom User Should Know
Early morning mist rises from the crystal clear waters of Reflection Lakes as Mt. Rainier towers overhead, Washington. Copyright Bret Edge. I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom as my RAW converter and photo...
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Large Format Printing and Paper Selection
Choosing the right paper for your prints can be overwhelming these days given all of the choices available, and especially critical with large print sizes. Recently I had to make 17 large prints for...
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The Making of “Clear Water, Hudson River” Panorama
Clear Water, Hudson River I received a few emails with questions about January’s wallpaper photo “Clear Water, Hudson River”, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to write a “Making Of” article...
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