Digital Photography Tricks

Posted on | October 11, 2009 | No Comments

It was frankly hard when we first began the move from straight film to digital photography some years back. My other half, a brilliant beginner paparazzo with a special aptitude for expressive and candid black-and-white footage, had difficulty finessing the’delay’ that happened between pressing the button and the digital camera actually snapping the picture. The honesty, shall we say, gave way to more staged poses and less exciting results. as time went on, we learned more about taking better photographs and also using Photoshop to improve the pictures with computer effects and other production strategies.

Tip one : Pump Up the Volume.

Tip two : concentrate on Lighting.

We noticed that we could augment all our images generally by paying much more attention to lighting.

So we’d be more orientated toward taking photos at different times of day – for instance, dusk – when there’s that’magic hour’ component that will give footage a richer hue and tone.

Tip three : expectation.

In contrast to the Heinz ketchup commercial, we learned to be impatient with certain of our subjects ( especially our youngsters, whose peculiarities and personalities we knew well ) – meaning, we learned to anticipate what they might do and snap the photograph ahead of where we believed the live action would go – so the camera would catch it punctually. This is a talent that should be developed over time – and it isn’t something that may be done completely with strangers

Tip four : Download and Dump.

We learned to download our pictures frequently after many times of missing awe-inspiring photographs as the camera was full. We also had to be taught how to be cruel with’our babies’ and cut out pictures on an improvised basis to keep the camera available for even better possibilities. Having said that, we also developed a good backing up system using CDs and DVDs, so we have thousands of footage stored and simply retrievable.

Tip five : Grayscaling, Sepia Toning, Lassoing, Saturation and Other Effects.

Some of our favourite methods in Photoshop are basically fairly easy, but they’re helpful time and time again. We adore grayscaling pictures to convert them from RGB to black and white, we adore changing the hue to do sepia toning for that old-time effect, and we particularly like to use the lasso tool to make’feathering’ and other cool effects like drop shadows, bevel and emboss – even craquelure. Photoshop can be employed in 1,000,000 other ways – but having digital photographs has actually helped us take more benefit of Photoshop than we probably did before when we had to by hand scan broadcast photographs. This alone has helped us truly fall in love with the digital.

Tip six : Batch Processing.

We got the hang of a thing by the name of’batch processing,’ where we could basically program Photoshop to mechanically open ( and resave ) each picture in a folder and do the very same action to it.

This is truly cool and useful if you’ve got the have to do it – makes everything go super-fast. Obviously, there are lots of other tricks we’ve learned, but these 6 will maybe be useful to learn and adopt into your own digital photography methods.

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