By Marius Waldal on December 9, 2009
In this tutorial I will show you how to cross-process a photo digitally, and also go beyond that and make the photo look like it was shot using a LOMO camera.
Posted in Featured, Post-processing | Tagged cross-processing, howto, lomo, photoshop, Post-processing, tutorial
By Marius Waldal on December 4, 2009
Since you’re a decent photographer, your friends have asked you to take pictures in their wedding. Or maybe you haven’t been asked, but you still want to! Learn how to make those “documentation” photos more interesting.
Posted in Featured, Tips | Tagged Creative vision, wedding
By Marius Waldal on November 26, 2009
Selective colors can offer a nice twist on certain black & white photos. They can be beautiful to look at and fun to make! Learn how in this article.
Posted in Featured, Post-processing | Tagged howto, photography, photoshop, Post-processing, selective color, tutorial
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
Being able to see interesting, beautiful or extraordinary scenes is an ability that can and should be developed as a skill in its own right. In this article I give you some tips on how you can improve your awareness.
Posted in Creative vision, Featured | Tagged awareness, Composition, Creative vision, design
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
Bokeh can be an important subordinate part of a photo, or even the actual subject of a photo. Using it consciously will enable you to enhance the overall look of your scenes.
Get a few tips in this article!
Posted in Composition | Tagged bokeh, Composition, photography
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
If you want to use colors successfully in your photos, you should learn some basic color theory. Colors can be a fantastic compositional tool. But without any knowledge of how colors affect us, you risk taking visually unpleasing photos because of bad color combinations.
Posted in Featured, Reference | Tagged brightness, color, Composition, hue, photography, primer, saturation
By Marius Waldal on October 28, 2009
Sometimes, there are elements in your scene that will somehow affect the way viewers perceive a photo. Sometimes it will even reduce the quality of that photo. Often, this can be avoided with a little arranging before shooting.
Posted in Composition | Tagged Composition
By Marius Waldal on October 28, 2009
Panning is a great way of incurring a sense of speed and motion in your photos. In this article you will learn what panning is, and get a few tips on when and how to do it.
Posted in Composition | Tagged motion blur, panning
By Marius Waldal on October 28, 2009
One of the most effective ways of learning from your own and others’ photos is to analyze them. If you do that as a photo critique, you both learn AND do a good deed!
Posted in Tips | Tagged analyzing, Composition, flickr, photo critique
By Marius Waldal on October 27, 2009
For normal daily shooting you should use the aperture-priority mode. This will let you use the desired aperture for a given scene, sparing you the time to select the correct shutter speed for the shot.
Always check the resulting photo, though, as your camera’s light meter might be fooled by highlights or shadows and choose [...]
Posted in Tips | Tagged aperture, camera mode