by Thomas Boldt | Sep 6, 2016 | How-To, Photography Discussion
The Global Positioning System is one of the most useful innovations of the last 40 years. Over 30 satellites orbit the Earth at 20,000 km with no other purpose than to help people triangulate their position anywhere on the surface of the planet. As landscape...
by Thomas Boldt | Aug 25, 2016 | How-To, Photoshop
Note: This 3-part blog post series is now complete! Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here After an exhaustive run-through of all of the various Photoshop blending modes, you probably noticed that many of them don’t have immediate practical...
by Thomas Boldt | Aug 25, 2016 | How-To, Photoshop
Note: This 3-part blog post series is now complete! Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here As you will recall from our first post in the series, blending modes are the various ways that different layers and brushstrokes can be applied. We discuss them...
by Thomas Boldt | Aug 25, 2016 | How-To, Photoshop
Note: This 3-part blog post series is now complete! Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here Photoshop is an incredibly powerful piece of software, and it has so many settings and tools and options that it can seem almost impossible to learn them all. One of...
by Thomas Boldt | Aug 24, 2016 | How-To, Photography Tutorials
Light is the most important element of any photograph. Understanding and appreciating light and the ways it works can make all the difference between a decent photo and amazing photo, and this is never more true than when you have very little light to work with. Night...
by Steve Arnold | Aug 24, 2016 | How-To, Photography Tutorials, Photoshop
Lightroom is a great program, designed from the ground up for photographers who have to process a huge number of images in the shortest amount of time possible. There are all kinds of great little tips, tricks and shortcuts that make your Lightroom workflow a breeze...
by Steve Arnold | Aug 1, 2016 | How-To, Photography Discussion, Photoshop
Someone asked me the other day: “how do I know when enough is enough? [when editing my photos]”. Thing is there’s no way to give a quantifiable answer. You just kinda need to hit the “goldilocks zone”. Not too hot, not too cold, but juuuust right… But the hard...
by Steve Arnold | Jul 30, 2016 | Photography Basics, Photography Discussion, Photoshop
One of my favourite memories of visiting New York back in 2002 is stumbling across Carnegie Deli (on 7th ave). As I walked in the front door the first thing I noticed was every wall jam-packed with photos of celebrities who’ve eaten there. Everything else about the...
by Steve Arnold | Jul 29, 2016 | How-To, Photography Basics, Photography Discussion, Photography Tutorials
This might sounding like I’m contradicting myself. Especially after what I’ve been talking about this past few days. But there ARE times when it is ok to shoot in an automatic mode. First though, let me just point out that my push to get you shooting in full manual...
by Steve Arnold | Jul 28, 2016 | How-To, Photography Basics, Photography Discussion, Photography Tutorials
Today I’m continuing the theme from some recent blog posts with a quick tip about bracketing exposures. I haven’t calculated it, but I’d guess that half of the photos I create (and probably half of the full image editing tutorials I produce) involve blending multiple...
