Category: Landscape

Years ago, when I tried to make a collage with blended edges (as opposed to David Hockney style) I would use a layer mask with a brush to try to smooth out the edges,  with limited success. The quick tutorial below really works. Collages In 5 Easy Steps Below...

The Great Quick Shot That Cuts Off Part Of The Body With the current Photoshop Generative Fill, here is 1 quick way to fix cut off feet or head: Expanding an Image to Fix Compositional Errors with Generative Fill The technique you’ve described leverages Generative Fill, powered by Adobe...

Assuming a snapshot is a quick point and shoot and a photo is a well laid out combination of scene, people and light, how do you Change A Snapshot Into A Photo? If you want to avoid post processing, try to remember some basic rules for shooting people (different...

Ah, those clear blue skies with wild cloud patterns, or multi colored sunsets . . . such beautiful photos. And there is also, 2 color, black and white, night shots . . . and Mist, Haze & Fog As with most posts of mine I start out with the...

Decades ago,  in the days of film and prints,   I owned a macro lens. Today, I practice Digital Close Up Photography Or, close up photography through cropping. While I still have a few legacy close up shots that I scanned from old prints,  and a few I still shoot...

A Blah Series Of Photos Until The End Of The Walk, Terminating,  In The Last 30 Seconds In After a lovely walk in the San Joaquin  Audubon in Irvine California, with a series of okay, but not so great photos, we encountered a Great Blue Heron standing on the...

I take a lot of photos at beaches. Some a really great. Most are just nice. So, I wondered what would happen if I re worked a couple of dozen to get some more creative beach photos, post processing. I came up with some interesting variations. Creative Beach Photos...

Adding One Or More Custom Sky Programs To Your Photo Editing Tools Will Change An Okay Photograph Into A Superb Photograph For years I would enhance my photos by changing the sky, in Photoshop or Gimp.As part of that process, however, I needed to bring the sky tones/colors into...

There Are Many Ideas, Sensational Or Not.  Here Are 3 Of Mine. I am by no means a landscape genius.  Over time I have developed a few ideas that allow me to get the most out of my photographs. Those ideas are: Shooting HDR (high dynamic range) is often...

Or – the Joys (Good),  Frustrations (Bad) & Bumps (Spoiler) You Encounter As A Photographer I usually carefully plan my photo shoots, be it a NYC Street Life walk, a casual hike or a set of vacation photos. Sometimes, however,  things go bump in the night.  Below are five...