Quick Tip - for drying roses and hydrangeas
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1920s Great Gatsby creative workshop
Last week I held the 1920’s Great Gatsby inspired portrait workshop. We ended up moving from Moorabbin studio to the Narre Warren studio, but it’s all good, as we have all the goods at the home studio.
Creative ways to use red and other Valentine colours
Are you looking for some creative ideas to use traditional Valentine Day colors like red and pink? What about picking one and do a selective color couples shoot?
Color grading in Photoshop part three
In this last instalment of my colour grading mini-series, I take a little look at the different tones in your image with the Color Balance adjustment, allowing you to add various colours to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows of your images. I personally like to add a little yellow in my highlights and a little blue in my shadows, but you can play around and find a colour balance that’s just right for you.
Creation of The Master’s Chair
I thought I might share something a little different with you today. I was recently asked over on Photofocus Community to share more before and after images, so I thought I would create a video of my full edit (sped up slightly) and explain what I did and how I got the finished image.
Quick Tip - keeping roses fresh for longer
Quick Tip - keeping roses fresh for longer
Creative couple photos with masks
Covid-19 is making all sorts of things difficult including couples portraits. But if you’re willing to take a break from standard portraits and get into something a little more fun and creative, you don’t have to be seen with those darn surgical masks!
My seven favourite accessories and tools for macro photography
I was not in my studio, I had to carry and take everything with me, so I had to pack (relatively) light. It really got me thinking about what I really needed to shoot macro while out and about.
Why photographers should be working together
Sure, there are even more photographers playing in the field today than ever before. That old adage about anyone who picks up a DSLR, right? But trying to outdo each other or undercut each other isn’t doing anyone any favours. In fact, we believe it is doing the opposite.
Colour grading in Photoshop part two
In the last video (Part one) we looked at Selective Color, this instalment I take a little look at the Channel Mixer in Photoshop. I really like the quick and easy way to work with the different channels of color even in a B&W/Monochrome image.
Australian Portrait Photographer of the year 2020 - Highly Commended
Very excited to reason a Highly Commended for The Girl in the Peacock Green Dress
Colour grading in Photoshop part one
There are so many great ways to use colour in Photoshop non-destructively. From altering the colour of clothing to subtle adjustments in shadows and highlights. You can use a myriad of tools or just one or two. In this three-part mini-series, I explore a few of my favourites. Starting with Selective Colour.
Using LUTs for colour, tone and contrast
A great way to add some interest to your photos is with using LUTs in Photoshop. LUTs (Lookup tables) have mostly been using for color grading film and video for years, think cinema blockbusters.
Using curves layer to add colour, tone and contrast
I adore using curves in Adore using curves layers in Adobe Photoshop, I think I use that one tool, more than any other, quick and easy and can make such a difference with little effort.
How I got the shot – Iced raspberry tea
While you might all be feeling a little chilly in the Northern Hemisphere, down here in Australia we are sweltering in the Summer heat. Nothing quite beats an iced tea on a balmy Summer evening.
Should you photograph in RAW or JPEG?
This is an age-old question, well, as old as digital photography and DSLR are at any rate; to shoot in Raw or JPEG. Many cameras are set to JPEG straight out of the box, so why bother to change?
Should I get a strobe or Speedlight
This was a recent dilemma I faced. I currently have older Bowens Strobes in the studio and while there is nothing actually wrong with them, the recycle time was too slow and I had found they were continually misfiring with my Sony a7RIII. I also have an older Nikon Speedlight, it was all quite serviceable, but I wanted something that did High-Speed Sync and had a much faster recycle time, and that all worked very well together, but what to get…
Color Concepts – what’s in for 2021?
So whats hot and whats not in regards to colours in 2021?
A special gift for Jude
The Wonderful Animal Imaginarium book made a special Christmas present for a little boy in USA
Happy New Year 2021
A new year is like a blank 365 page book, what will you fill your pages with?