Category: Landscape

Photoshop Collages In 5 Easy Steps

Here is an expanded version that stays consistent with your tone while getting you comfortably past 600 words and improving flow and SEO value: Years ago, when I first experimented with creating photo collages with blended edges (as opposed to the more defined, cut-and-assembled look often associated with David...

Fix Cut Off Feet Or Head

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...

Change A Snapshot Into A Photo

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...

Mist, Haze & Fog Photography

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...

Close Up Photography Through Cropping

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...

30 Second Photo Shoot Perfection

A Blah Series Of Photos Until The End Of The Walk, Terminating,  In The Last 30 Seconds 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 road. ...

Creative Beach Photos, 5 Examples

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...

3 Superb Custom Sky Programs

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...

3 Sensational Ideas For Landscape Photography

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...

The Good, The Bad & The Spoiler x 5

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...