Category : HDR Tutorial

I recently came across an article on the excellent photography site, Light Stalking. The article title is: How to Take the Stress Out of Image Editing When You’ve Got Tons of Photos to Edit. Although there is some very good advice for cutting down your workload, I found one quote particularly surprising: “For many a […]

I’m thoroughly excited to announce that in Early 2015 (previously December 2014 but delayed slightly), I’ll be releasing an E-book teaching Digital Blending methods. Included with the E-book will be the full digital blending workflow video showing you how I created the below image from Hong Kong (see the before/after here: HK Light Trails). The […]

As photographers, one of our main aims when we capture images is to make sure that necessary elements in the scene are as crisp as they can be. There are a multitude of ways, both in-camera and in post-processing, to make sure your photos retain the sharpness they deserve. I’ve compiled a list of steps/techniques […]

To immerse oneself in a beautifully creative mindset and environment:  to learn to express oneself: to truly enjoy the creative process and in the end, to come out with something beautiful or meaningful to you – that is the essence of art, to me. Yet, as you’d expect, there is, always has been, and always […]

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Sometimes photographers are an annoying group of people. We take pictures of amazing places and whenever a tourist walks into the shot we grumble to ourselves ‘stupid tourist!’ How dare they be having a good time, walking freely at this beautiful place!! The nerve! There are certain techniques that photographers employ to remove tourists or […]

My Advanced Cityscape Tutorial is now available! Cityscape photography is my true passion. I love landscapes, too, but there’s a special energy in cities that really excites my imagination. Most of the time I shoot at night or during blue hour. When those city lights come on, the whole dynamic of the scene changes. But, […]

Lens flare can both enhance and destroy an image. Knowing how to control or avoid it is an essential skill for any photographer. Sometimes I choose to add lens flare in post-processing, like in this image of the Petronas Towers, but I always try to avoid it while shooting. Adding lens flare in post-processing gives […]

My Advanced Cityscape Tutorial is now available! Sometimes, as fans of post-processing (if you’re anti-processing then you’re definitely at the wrong blog), our workflows in Photoshop become far too elaborate. With all of the amazing-ness that Photoshop provides, we tend to get excited and overdo things. It’s often most effective to keep things basic. A […]

Usually my post-processing is restricted to the brackets that I have of a particular scene. I try to bring out, as much as possible, the best in that scene. Sometimes, however, I feel that an image can benefit from some creative blending of separate images. The before and after below is a great example of […]