Adding Selective Image Weight to Landscape Photographs in Lightroom
In this video Simon Plant shows how to use selective adjustments in Lightroom to adjust the image weight and direct the viewer’s attention within the photo.
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An Introduction To Photographing Urban Landscapes
Urban landscape photography is somewhat of a mishmash of different genres. It takes influence from traditional landscape photography as well as cityscape photography, architectural photography, and even pulls some of its style from street photography. With influence coming from so many directions, it can sometimes be hard to define just exactly what an urban landscape is–but at it’s core, it’s much like the landscapes we know and love, in that the photos tell the story of what a place is and looks like.
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How Perspective Impacts Landscape Photography
What is it about some images that grab your attention, drawing you in?
Why do some photos seem to have it, while others look flat and boring?
Often, this comes down to perspective –and how well the photographer was able to effectively introduce a sense of depth and scale into an image. We live in a three-dimensional world, yet photography is a two-dimensional format. The challenge then, is finding a way to create photos that maintain a real-world sense of distance, size, and scale. No small feat!
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What Is Hyperfocal Distance And How Can It Sharpen Your Landscape Photography?
One of our main objectives when taking photos is making sure the focus is sharp in the areas we want it to be, and when shooting landscapes–where a deep depth of field is generally required–sometimes it can be a little tricky to get the focus spot on in all the right places. It’s not uncommon to have both foreground and background elements that need to be in focus when taking a landscape, and photographers are often challenged in doing so.
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Winter Landscape Photography: Tips, Ideas, and Examples
Winter is a great season for landscape and nature photography, although it will present some unique challenges. If you are willing to overcome those challenges you can be rewarded with very striking and unique photographs that really stand out. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your landscape photography during the winter months.
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How to Manually Blend and Stitch Panoramic Photos
One effective way to show off any amazing landscape is to create a panoramic image by combining multiple images and “stitching” them together. While several options for automatically stitching panoramas have been around for years, Lightroom 6/CC has made it possible to do it without even leaving Lightroom. However, every auto stitching software will have times when it can’t process your photos for one reason or another. In these situations you may still be able to create the panoramic image, but you will need to stitch the photos manually in Photoshop. In this video Simon Plant walks through the process of manually blending and stitching two photos together.
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25+ Winter Landscape Photos for Your Inspiration
If you’re looking for some inspiration that can be put to use in your own winter photography, here are some examples from various photographers.
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Introduction to Exposure Bracketing & Tips for Terrific Photos
Exposure bracketing is taking multiple exposures of the same subject, including some that are underexposed and some that are overexposed. Exposure bracketing improves our ability to maximize optimum exposure and offers additional post processing creativity. We’ll review key considerations in exposure bracketing including 1) How it works, 2) How to set up your camera, 3) Photography tips and tools, and 4) Post processing.
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Why You Should Challenge Yourself To Take More Landscapes In Vertical Orientation
When shooting landscapes, it’s easy to get stuck shooting in landscape orientation. Even the name, landscape photography, encourages us to hold our cameras in lengthwise. While holding the camera that way does allow us to capture larger sections of those breathtaking horizons, rotating the camera every once in a while is a good thing, too–really!
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How to Quickly Fix and Replace a Bland Sky in Photoshop
With many landscape and nature photos you may want to replace the sky in order to get a more striking photo. In this video Simon Plant shows an easy way to blend a new sky without getting into complicated masking and selections.
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