Raise Your Spirits
Hard contrast. There are some textures that lend themselves to an increased level of contrast. In this case the shot is of a wooden barn at Balls Falls (see previous post). The original shot was good, but didn't have that 'pop' that the picture seemed to demand. Not much post-processing was needed, but tweaking the… Continue reading Photography Project 26 – H is for…
Glow. Or in this case, the Orton Sandwich technique! It's a simple PP technique which uses the blending method to give an image a certain glow. The application is pretty straightforward - duplicate the picture layer, blur the first layer and then select a blending method such as Soft Light, Screen etc depending on the… Continue reading Photography Project 26 – G is for…
Form As we've touched on previously, not all photography and certainly not all art, has to represent the true form. There's an obsession in today's photographic world with sharpness and contour; if a photo isn't 'tack sharp' then there's something wrong with it. Certainly you'll find any number of 'experts' on the Internet these days… Continue reading Photography Project 26 – F is for…
Chris McPhee - Photographer 