insights into photography
If you have made it through the beginners tutorials then you will be ready for this section on intermediate tutorials. You will find many other fascinating tutorials on the Cambridge in Colour site.
These are helpful for refining technique and taking your photography to the next level:
Concepts: Understanding Depth of Field & White Balance
Editing: Using the Levels, Curves & Sharpening Tools
Equipment: Tripods & Lens Filters (UV, GND, ND & Polarizing)
Technique: Reducing Camera Shake & Utilizing Natural Light
© Christina Kirkegard Intermediate Photography Course 2011
Not sure why deadly, and that there are only 7 but the cheeky chaps over at photoformula.com have put together a free downloadable pdf that has seven essential points you need to think about as a photographer.
It’s a work of love to an extent. Here are just a few of the things you can learn from it:
Whilst there getting your free download have a look at his images, great looking photo-journalism and street shots plus lots of sports including David Beckham playing “soccer” in the US
A curious thing happened with the advent of the internet – and that is that people seemed to shun photography clubs, classes, books, and even learning from your mates, and turn more towards learning from online tutorials. In some ways, that’s a shame – but given how many hard-working photographers there are out there who are more than happy to share their knowledge with the masses, we’re probably in a better place now that we ever have. Everything you ever wanted to know here
More useful help from Lightstalking, this time a list of blogs and sites with Photoshop tutorials and help. I use a number of these and can recommend PS Tuts, Photshop Tutorials and PS Deluxe but I will definitely check out the others. Online tutorials are extremely useful because someone else has done all the work and are prepared to share their efforts with you for free. Here is a link to the Lightstalker post As it is now several months before we run our Photoshop course again you should use these to help you get going with Photoshop
Creating dramatic skies in Lightroom is a bit different than Photoshop, but you can easily achieve similar results. The goal is to bring out the true drama of a sky that the camera can often leave out by Christoper O’Donnell at Lightstalking
The selection process in PS has many tools that make it possible to select a specific area of an image to make adjustments to that area. This is a very good tutorial on using one of the lesser know selection processes.
“One of the most powerful and useful tools for creating a selection in Photoshop is also the most often ignored and the least understood. In fact, it generally isn’t even regarded as a tool at all, because it doesn’t appear in the tools panel. And when you use it, instead of a tool icon, you get a strange dialog box. Yet, this tool can give you the ability to create very convincing selections quickly, with much better results than its more famous counterparts.
I’m talking about Color Range.” If you have never tried using colour range as a method of selection you are missing a trick, look at this tutorial and give it a try
Considering how cold it is here in the UK you may be considering staying in and being cosy with your computer and Photoshop. These tutorials may be just what you have been looking for to liven up your images and might add to the Photoshop course you may have taken with us. There is even one on adding falling snow although I am not sure you will need that for a week or so.
Image via Wikipedia
Adding a bit of mist to your landscapes is not only simple, but fully customizable in Photoshop. This is a great way to alter the entire mood of your image and make an otherwise boring landscape into something more powerful.
http://www.lightstalking.com/mist-with-photoshop
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