Photography Techniques
How do we achieve our vision technically? The hardest part of photography is all about the vision, the rest is the technical aspect.
When I was in high school I was full on into computers. When I was old enough to choose between doing Design class or Woodwork, I chose Design, because it was a class where we would use computers. I remember thinking I would be great at it straight away because I knew how to do everything on computers and design programs, and, well, formatting some text on a page and changing sliders to change how a picture looked, “How hard could it be?”
How wrong I was. Sure, using the software was easy. But getting the creative vision was not easy. It is the same with photography. Using a camera is easy, but visualising what photo you want to take that will amaze others is not easy.
That’s why I’ve made this page hopefully to show you how to use the technology easily, so you can focus on achieving your vision.
Film developing tutorials
This photo of the Munich Residenz Antiquarium is somthing I am very fond of. I thought I’d use it to show you how, and my philosophy to processing RAW images into usable files. It started life as a CR2 RAW from a Canon 6D. 24-105L, F8, 50ISO. For each of...
Well, yes, they sure can. You can apply filter after filter to your RAW or even JPG files and end up with an image that can look like it was taken on large format glass plates, crisp 1950s black and white, or off tinited/contrasty 1970s film, or more recent professional...