Thursday 17 April 2014

Released Today: Guide to Landscape Photography Workflow & Post-Processing

Released Today: Guide to Landscape Photography Workflow & Post-Processing

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Released Today: Guide to Landscape Photography Workflow & Post-Processing

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 05:36 PM PDT

Digital image capture and post-processing has totally transformed the art of landscape photography. The days of being restricted to the results made in-camera are long gone – we are now presented with a seemingly boundless array of processing options. The goal of this in-depth new eBook is to demystify the digital landscape photography workflow. It is currently 33% off for the launch sale which ends soon. Launch sale here: Landscape Photography Post-Processing eBook

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New! In-depth eBook on Landscape Photography Post Processing (Click to Learn More)

“The section on how to merge the best elements of multiple exposures as an alternative to traditional HDR is invaluable, being aware of and understanding these possibilities is critical for getting the most out of each landscape you are faced with.” -Richard Schneider

We photographers have the ability to tweak, morph, weld together and generally torture our pixels with reckless abandon – these are truly golden times for landscape and nature photographers!

If there is a downside to all this digital possibility it is that there are simply too many possibilities – the complexity of many advanced digital post-processing techniques are simply off the chart and the full workflow from capture to output is bewildering for beginners.

The goal of this book is to demystify the digital landscape photography workflow by sharing almost every landscape photography technique, trick and hack that we have accumulated over the past 20 years of photographing nature together. We will start out in 'the field' and take you step-by- step through download, archiving, image selection and post- processing.

Some of the many topics covered (207 pages):

  • Chapter one: image capture
  • Image sharpness
  • Achieving correct exposure
  • Achieving correct color in-camera
  • Minimize noise to maximize image quality
  • Achieving maximum resolution
  • Capture in RAW
  • Chapter two: computers and backups
  • In the field: backups
  • In the studio: backups
  • Chapter three: RAW workflow for landscape photography
  • RAW post-processing
  • Chapter four: file management in Lightroom
  • Chapter five: organizing your images in Lightroom
  • Metadata – Santa's little helper
  • Chapter six: outputting images from Lightroom
  • Lightroom Publish Services
  • Exporting from Lightroom
  • Output sharpening
  • Sharpening for screen use
  • Sharpening for print
  • The Lightroom to Photoshop workflow
  • Chapter seven: single-exposure post-processing
  • The Lightroom Develop Module
  • Develop Module: what's in a name?
  • Getting into Develop mode
  • Enhancing landscape images –four key values
  • Exposure adjustments
  • Lightroom exposure controls
  • Color adjustments
  • Lightroom color controls
  • Lightroom contrast controls
  • Image quality
  • Lightroom's image quality tools
  • Chapter eight: single-exposure post-processing walkthrough
  • The Graduated Filter tool
  • The Adjustment Brush tool
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  • Chapter nine: other Lightroom tools and features
  • Controlling noise
  • Lens Correction
  • The HSL / Color / B&W panel
  • Painting with color
  • The Split Toning panel
  • Lightroom Presets
  • The Effects panel
  • The Radial Filter
  • Chapter ten: single-exposure techniques
  • Photo-Impressionism
  • Zooming and camera spin
  • Camera spin
  • Long Exposures using ND filters
  • 'Milky Way' photography
  • Chapter eleven: Photoshop for landscape photographers
  • Photoshop for landscape photography – the basics
  • The Photoshop Tool Palette
  • Introducing Layers
  • Layer masks
  • Advanced Content Replacement – Photoshop vs. Lightroom
  • Chapter twelve: Multi-exposure workflow
  • Exposure blending to expand dynamic range
  • Tips for photographing exposure blended images
  • Exposure blending using the Gradient tool
  • Exposure blending using complex selections
  • Exposure blending using a luminosity mask
  • Merging 'best elements'
  • Tips for photographing for best-element composites
  • Star trails and light painting
  • HDR (High Dynamic Range)
  • Post-processing star trail sequences

“A good landscape photography workflow nurtures and supports your creative instincts while equipping you with the tools to work around obstacles – both in the field and in the studio. I view complex workflow techniques as a means to an end and I only resort to them when simple strategies are failing to deliver the desired results.” -Author Todd Sisson

How to Get a Discounted Copy:

This new eBook is currently 33% off for the launch sale that ends soon. It also carries a 60 day no-questions-asked guarantee, if you are not satisfied with any part of the book just let them know and they will give you a full refund so there is no risk in trying it.

Found here: Loving Landscapes – Landscape Photography Workflow & Post-Processing


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Proposal on the Mountain: A Stop-Motion Love Story (Video)

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:11 PM PDT

Well, this is just adorable. A photographic (and photogenic) duo from Washington, DC trekked all the way up to Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada and hiked up Fairview Mountain, where the fella proposed to his lady; they kiss and smile and hold hands and take thousands of photos to share with the world. Very colorful, very cute:

Don’t be totally fooled by the cutesy style, though: these people are professionals. Lindsay King runs her own wedding and creative photography studio down in Washington, while her husband-to-be, Greg, is a full-time graphic designer. They both carry a Canon 5D Mark II along with a whole bevy of lenses—and, presumably, piles of memory cards for videos like these.

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It’s a good pitch for both their business and Banff National Park, Canada’s oldest national park, which encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains and is one of Canada’s most-visited tourist attractions.

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I mean, aww, jeez, aren’t they just so cute? The bar just keeps raising for endearing YouTube proposal videos.


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How to Do Light Painting With a Smartphone (Video)

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 01:09 PM PDT

While smartphone cameras have unquestionably evolved in megapixels and color quality, manual controls haven’t kept up, keeping smartphone cameras as the digital equivalent of a throwaway point-and-shoot film camera—until now. Nokia’s Lumia 1020 introduces specific ISO control, shutter delay, manual focus, and a shutter speed of up to four seconds to create some stunning examples of light painting:

Nokia teamed up with light painter Ian Hobson, whose style of light painting is futuristic, colorful and pattern-based. The video shows the how and why of light painting with some pretty impressive results:

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“I’m very keen on light painting because it’s a very challenging and demanding art form, combined with an awful lot of enjoyable good fun.”


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11 Magical Photos Taken in Airports

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 11:36 AM PDT

Travel photography involves the documentation of an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs, and history. You probably get home from a holiday with thousands of new photos ready to be examined and edited.  Next time, on your way to the perfect holiday destination, take out your camera a bit sooner— in the airport. You could capture some of the most amazing scenes:

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photo by William Cho

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photo by Gagan Dhiman

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photo by Evan Leeson

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photo by Argee G.

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photo by Jebat

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photo by Spreng Ben

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photo by Lali Masriera

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls, so they say. Catch some magic moments! Also, check our tips for taking photos from an airplane.Enjoy your flight.


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Add Creativity to Your Portraits With a Tilt Shift Lens (Video)

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 10:17 AM PDT

Tilt shift lenses aren’t just for quirky landscapes and making things appear to be miniature, they can also be useful in portrait photography. Take a look at the following video to learn a few useful tips for utilizing a specialized piece of glass that you may not have considered for portraits:

Using the Nikon 85mm f/2.8D PC-E Lens on a Nikon D4, the photographer in the video had full control over the slices of image that were in focus, giving him complete creative control over his portraits.

An extreme example of the exact focal slices you can make with a tilt shift lens.

An extreme example of the exact focal slices you can make with a tilt shift lens.

Having complete control over the areas that are in focus is especially useful for environmental portraits in which certain background elements need to be out of focus to prevent distraction from the subject. In this case, the photographer was trying to blur out the busy store in the background so the eye is drawn instantly to the man in the image.

If you don’t want to spend quite that much money on what could be considered a specialty lens, there are more affordable options on the market such as the LensBaby Composer which currently retails at a fraction of the price as the Nikon lens.


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