Archive for September, 2006

How to Use a Light Meter and 18% Gray Card for Better Photos

ACE Camera Photography Magazine, Using a Light Meter and an 18% Gray Card for Better Photography
Many amateur photographers have never seen a gray card. Others have seen one but don’t understand the significance behind gray cards or the many uses they have in photography.
The last twenty years of increasingly automated cameras has made it easier [...]

Using Canon 300d Histogram to Check Exposure “In Camera”

Using Canon 300d Histogram to Check Exposure “In Camera”
A wonderful article posted by Kris Butler at ACDSystems provides insight into your camera’s Histogram and proper usage of it.
…by using your camera’s histogram feature you can take a big step towards your own masterpiece series. That’s because with your camera’s histogram, you can check exposure immediately [...]

Batch Processing Canon RAW Images in Photoshop CS

In this tutorial, John Virata explores how to set up a batch session Droplet to convert several hundred .CRW images to JPEG using Photoshop CS. It helps speed up the processing of hundreds of RAW images.

Sunny f/16 Rule by Charles Glatzer

Sunny f/16 Rule for Old School Film Cameras
For crazed photographers like myself (I recently bought an Argus C3 Rangefinder Camera) it’s useful to remember these simple yet basic settings for taking photographs in bright sunlight.

Luminous Landscape Photography Tutorials

Luminous Landscape hosts a multitude of photography and Photoshop tutorials including tips on…

A Digital Workflow Primer
Archiving Images
Blended Exposures
Better B&W
Colour Theory
Curves Primer
Instant Photoshop
Local Contrast Enhancement
Monitor Profiling
Photoshop Workflow
Sharpening tricks
Monitor Profiling