Add This Not So Well Known Enhancement To Your HDR Workflow

002 Jun 2013, camera RAW tips by Barry Chignell

I recently watched a Photoshop video tutorial by Bryan O’Neil Hughes. One of the tips given during the video was of a little known setting in Camera RAW. This one setting has changed my HDR workflow and allowed me to enhance my photos with much more precision.

Camera RAW is normally used to open RAW format files and allows you to adjust pretty much every aspect of your image. Until recently I (and most others apparently) assumed that you could not use Camera RAW for other file types, such as TIFF and even JPEG, but you can!

Within Photoshop select ‘Edit’ and then ‘Preferences’ and then ‘Camera RAW’ from the menu at the top of the screen, this will open the below window (I use CS6):

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Tagged: Enhancement, Known, Workflow

Old Streets And A Church With A Fisheye

023 Jun 2013fisheye photography, majorca photography, Old Alcudia & Pollensa Streets With A Fisheye by Barry Chignell

I’ve visited the island of Majorca most years since I was about 7 years old. I reckon I’ve been there about 28 times now and still love the place. One of the great features is the abundance of old towns and villages with their picturesque narrow streets and wall climbing flowers. I chose to capture these streets using my Samyang 8mm Fisheye lens as I really like the warped effect it give the walls on either side of the frame and also it’s ability to capture the scene in 180 degrees.

All images processed using Photomatix, Camera RAW and Photoshop. HDR all 3 exposures at 2 stops.

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Tagged: Church, Fisheye, Streets

IFTTT Recipes For Photographers

026 Jun 2013 by Barry Chignell

‘If This Then That‘ is a brilliant, powerful and easy to use online tool that allows anybody to create ‘Recipe’s’ in order to automate the sharing of information, notifications or processes that are useful in everyday online life.

With a multitude of sites, including photography related one’s, available to include in a ‘recipe’, it can prove very useful when streamlining your photography processes and sharing.

Below is a selection of photography related recipe’s that prove particularly useful (you may have to crate an account and login to be able to follow the below recipe links):

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Tagged: IFTTT, Photographers, Recipes

From The Ground Up

030 Jun 2013fisheye photography, by Barry Chignell

Finding new and interesting viewpoints for your local photography can often be a difficult task. After a while, if you are a regular photographer, you will exhaust all of the obvious locations in the local vicinity.

One option is to take photos from a new viewpoint. Taking photos from a higher position, or, as in the images below, , can be something that gives new perspective to a familiar place.

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Tagged: Ground