‘Shooting and Editing Photos’ Category
Free eBook! The Polar Route’s Complete Guide to Shooting and Editing Photos
I’ve been wanting to put an ebook together since I started The Polar Route, and as of today it’s finally finished! The book’s all about taking good pictures from the moment you grab your camera to head out until the moment you finish editing those shots on your computer. I’ve tried to write the book [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 7: HDR Photos with Moving Subjects
This is an HDR photograph edited using the techniques described in this guide. This photo was a challenge to edit because of the moving cars – you can’t combine three pictures worth of moving objects and have everything come out looking good. Here’s what the cars looked like immediately after I ran Photomatix to combine [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 6: Useful Photoshop Hints
Part 5 was a comprehensive look at using Photoshop to edit your photos. All you ever really need to know is in that section, but if you’re just craving more… well you got it! In this section, I’ll talk about some more useful Photoshop techniques: Shadows / Highlights Adjustment The difference between the Clone Tool [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 5: A Comprehensive Photoshop Guide
Photoshop is powerful, and there’s no limit to what you can do with a photo with the right know how. All that photo editing power means Photoshop can be pretty complex, but I’ll show you how to simplify things. Before we go further, I always try to keep these two concepts in mind: Have an [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 4: Finding Realism with HDR Editing
The above photo is a 3 exposure HDR photograph put together in Photomatix and edited in Photoshop. The exposures were captured as described in Part 2, and the files were saved as described in Part 3. Maybe you’ll disagree, but to my eye the photo above looks completely real. For comparison’s sake here’s the original, [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 3: Editing Styles and Preparing Your Files
Shooting captures the moment. Editing recreates the feel These pictures of Shanghai were captured about a year ago. I was pretty jetlagged thanks to the 10 hour time zone difference, and I figured I’d have a better time exploring The Bund at sunrise rather than sleeplessly staring at the ceiling of my hostel. I’m glad [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 2: Capturing High Dynamic Range (HDR) Images
When one shot isn’t enough… It’s not always possible to capture all the brights and darks of a scene in a single image (see Part 1). Take a picture into the sun and you’ll quickly see the brights are too bright and the darks are too dark, and no amount of Photoshop or Lightroom will [...]
Shooting and Editing Photos Part 1: Your Camera is Hungry
Taking pictures is the easy part. Editing photos? Not so easy. But it can make the difference between a good shot and a great one. Through trial and error, it took me years to figure out how to achieve the look I want in post processing. Let me simplify that process for you here with my [...]