Silver EFEX, from Nik (now owned by Google), is a handy plugin for processing and fine tuning black and white images. For IR, I use it primarily to add structure (or clarity in the Photoshop world) and make some minor modifications to the false colors. I created an Action that enables...
The first step to finding great places to take landscape photos is to explore images by other photographers. There are so many great shooters on sites like 500px, Instagram, and Flickr that it should be relatively easy to find folks who have already captured images in the areas that you have...
Typically, panoramic ratios will be used to present the result of stitching two or more images together; it’s quite challenging to capture a 3:1 aspect ratio image in one frame and still be able to print at any meaningful size. Often, frames to be stitched will have been captured using ...
While it is hard and frustrating to start working on infrared images, I find it very rewarding. When I started to get the hang of it after hours and hours of trying to get the look I wanted, I had a huge smile on my face. Shooting on a phone while editing so aggressively has a c...
Do you think that your renders aren't perfect, no matter how much time you devote to your project? After many hours of work, does the end project still appear plastic and insufficiently realistic? Don't worry, the process of learning can take a while and require some trial and error. Th...
One alters the transparency of this second layer, the other changes the kind of effect it has on the original layer. Lighten, Darken, Add, Subtract and Overlay will be familiar to those who create layered images in Photoshop regularly. Each establishes a different relationship between the ...
"Photoshopping" has become a verb in modern society. It's based on the computer program Adobe Photoshop, which allows people to manipulate photos. However, photographers have been editing pictures to create clearer images since the 1870s. PhotographerAbner Peelerstarted airbrushing pictures - essenti...
This rather short period of immersion is also interesting as it avoids any significant post-maturation; thus, we may assign any observed feature to the acidification process itself. In particular, the ν4PO4 vibration domain was analyzed, using the spectral decomposition procedure detailed previously...
Decades ago, photographers steered the process with film chemistry, lens selection, shot framing and darkroom alterations. Now Photoshop, smartphone image processing and generative AI make those analog-era alterations look primitive. These days, you'd be right to question how much trut...
Infrared is active because the autofocus system is always sending out invisible infrared light energy in pulses when in focus mode. It is not hard to imagine a system in which the camera sends out pulses of infrared light just like the Polaroid camera sends out pulses of sound. The subject ...