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New Photoshop Tutorial — Batch Processing Camera RAW files bypassing ACR

A problem encounted when batch processing RAW files with an action you have created in Photoshop through Adobe Bridge is the programs need to open every file in Adobe Camera RAW first. After that it...

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New Tutorial — Apply ACR presets to numerous images.

So you have a whole bunch of images shot in RAW and you want to apply the same Adobe Camera Raw editing / adjustments to them all to save yourself a lot of time. So in this tutorial we create a Camera...

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Shooting Mid Morning on a 617 camera

Landscape Photographer Matt Lauder takes you through the full light meter reading process for a mid morning coastal shoot using a dedicated light meter, a polariser and the Fuji G617 with Velvia 50...

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Setting up a polariser on a rangefinder camera

When you don’t have the ability to look through the lens with rangefinder cameras you understanding and placement of filters has to come down to experience, touch and a few little tricks and tips. In...

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Tripod Setup for Shooting Digital Panoramics

The key to shooting high quality digital panoramics starts with the setting up of your equipment to get a refined result. In this tutorial Matt Lauder covers what leveling equipment he uses to shoot...

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The “Hand Made” Viewfinder

A prized piece of equipment that all digital panoramic shooters would like to get their hands on is a viewfinder that comes with owning a fix lens film system so they could preview scenes prior to...

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New Tutorial — Monitoring Channel Clipping

Being able to monitor whats happening with your image in terms of clipping channels while editing is critical to making sure your images integrity in terms of avoiding pure whites and blacks is done...

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New Tutorial — The Importance of Common Pixels

When shooting digital panoramics out in the field you have to be mindful of how those images are going to be aligned in your stitching software. In this tutorial we look at the issues that arise when...

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New Tutorial — The Soft Glow Effect

Quite often you will see images online on websites like flickr etc where the landscape image has a nice softness about it, but at the same time still sharp. Well in this tutorial we show you how we go...

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New Masterclass — Sydney Buses Concept to Completion

With photography quite often the photographer can see the final image they want to create even before they take the first shot. In this tutorial we discuss the concept of our final shot, the filters...

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How to Remove Sun Flare from Your Digital Photos – No Photoshop

What I love about photography is how simple some things are, but you can struggle for so long when you have a light bulb moment and the solution is so obvious. One of these struggles is when you have...

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How to do Digital Panoramic Landscape Photography

Mount Wilson – 5 image panoramic stitch – F11 @ 1 sec, 50 iso – Photoshop Photomerge. As a landscape photographer that cut his teeth shooting wide-angle panoramic images on a film camera I find it...

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How and What to Consider when buying your first digital camera

Everyone wants to take great photos and buying the right camera and lens is certainly one of the first steps. But with a market flooded with makes and models, it is certainly a daunting task to...

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10 Common Mistakes in Long Exposure Photography You Can Avoid

Over the years I have had a lot of fun shooting long exposures on film and also digital using full Neutral Density Filters. Like everything it has a learning curve that you have to accept through...

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Mastering Long Exposure Photography With Your Digital Camera

Long exposure photography comes down to achieving shutter speeds not possible without special ND (Neutral Density) filters to slow things down, with the control of shutter speed you also need a...

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Shooting with and how to Use Full Neutral Density Filters

The full Neutral Density (ND) Filter is the landscape photographer’s best friend, second to the polariser. The ND filters different strengths allow you to achieve shutters speeds not possible in...

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Whats the Best Camera Memory Card To Buy

I remember when I had my first digital camera the Canon 20D and with it, I got a 250MB card and I never thought I needed more memory at the time as a card that was like 1 GIG was so expensive. Then...

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Understanding how to use your Lee Big Stopper Correctly

When I first started using 10 stop ND (Neutral Density) Filters it was on film cameras shooting velvia 50 slide film. The Lee Big Stopper hadn’t been made yet and my only option was the B+W 10 stop ND...

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DJI Phantom 4 Pro Drone High ISO Test

So after flying the DJI Phantom 4 Pro for over a month now I have run it through its paces in terms of the cameras capability. One of the important factors is how does the camera go when the ISO is...

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Caring for your Drone Battery

So if your new to Drone life the sure way to quickly end it is to not look after your batteries and give them a short life span or worse still have the battery fail on you mid-flight and it takes a...

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