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Amateur Photographer Advanced Photography Skills.

Spring 2015
Magazine

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Welcome

Planning and preparation • The key to landscape photography is proper planning and preparation. Knowing exactly when and where to shoot dramatically increases your chances of success and saves a lot of time in the process

ESSENTIAL KIT

THE WEATHER

Apps for Landscape Photographers • If you think smartphones are just for games then think again. There are many great apps that can be of real benefit to landscape photographers. We round up the apps you should have on your phone

Third party landscape lenses

Photographing Landscapes with A Telephoto lens • Landscapes don’t have to be taken with a wideangle lens. Try a telephoto optic instead

UV FILTERS

PERSPECTIVE

SUPPORTING YOUR CAMERA AND LENS

Composition • Once you have reached your chosen location, there is still work to be done before you click the shutter button and capture the scene

Composition tips from the pros • Practical tips from award-winning landscape photographers

ADAPT TO THE CONDITIONS

Sharper Landscapes • Once you have composed your shot, how do you make sure you get the sharpest image possible? Just follow our guide to get pin-sharp landscape photos

CHOOSE YOUR FOCAL LENGTH WISELY

ISO

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE • The way that colour is rendered is an important factor in creating an image, and the best way to achieve an accurate rendition of hues and tones is to set a custom white balance. We explain how

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE ON LOCATION

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE POST-CAPTURE

RESCUING JPEGS • Like raw files, JPEGs can be opened in Adobe Camera Raw and adjusted using the White Balance picker tool. However, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have tools to bring back the colour in a JPEG file, too

Dynamic Range and Metering • We explain the concept of dynamic range: what it is, how it works and what effect it has on the images you take

WHAT THE CAMERA SEES • How light is captured by a camera’s sensor, and what effect dynamic range has on the tones displayed

METERING HIGHLIGHT AND SHADOWS

DYNAMIC RANGE: RAW AND JPEG

BIT DEPTH EXPLAINED

Shooting to the right • There is an easy technique that will help you to greatly reduce image noise, or even eliminate it – let more light into your images

Three filters you can’t live without • Despite the powers of Photoshop, there’s still an essential place for filters in your kit bag, as Jeremy Walker reveals

KIT LIST

Polarisers • Remove reflections and boost colour saturation

USING AN ND GRAD

Graduated neutral density filters • Balance the foreground and sky for perfect landscapes taken in-camera

KIT LIST

Neutral density filters • For extended exposures and creative effects, the ND filter offers all you need

KIT LIST

B&W Landscapes • Ian Bramham explores the way that shooting in mono can evoke feelings and emotions that are infinitely harder to capture in colour

TOP TIPS

SIMPLICITY: WHY IT WORKS

B&W Colour Filters • Colour filters are used with B&W film to control the brightness of different colours, but the same effect can be achieved digitally

Complete guide to shooting infrared images • You may not be able to see infrared light, but a camera can. We explain everything you need to know about infrared photography

WHITE BALANCE

USING FILTERS

LENSES AND FILTERS

SWAPPING CHANNELS • One popular technique when shooting digital infrared images is to swap the red and blue channels around. Having taken a custom white balance reading, the resulting image should have a red/amber sky. To turn this into a bright blue sky...


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Frequency: One time Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Spring 2015

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: February 19, 2015

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Photography

Languages

English

Please type the description of the issue

Welcome

Planning and preparation • The key to landscape photography is proper planning and preparation. Knowing exactly when and where to shoot dramatically increases your chances of success and saves a lot of time in the process

ESSENTIAL KIT

THE WEATHER

Apps for Landscape Photographers • If you think smartphones are just for games then think again. There are many great apps that can be of real benefit to landscape photographers. We round up the apps you should have on your phone

Third party landscape lenses

Photographing Landscapes with A Telephoto lens • Landscapes don’t have to be taken with a wideangle lens. Try a telephoto optic instead

UV FILTERS

PERSPECTIVE

SUPPORTING YOUR CAMERA AND LENS

Composition • Once you have reached your chosen location, there is still work to be done before you click the shutter button and capture the scene

Composition tips from the pros • Practical tips from award-winning landscape photographers

ADAPT TO THE CONDITIONS

Sharper Landscapes • Once you have composed your shot, how do you make sure you get the sharpest image possible? Just follow our guide to get pin-sharp landscape photos

CHOOSE YOUR FOCAL LENGTH WISELY

ISO

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE • The way that colour is rendered is an important factor in creating an image, and the best way to achieve an accurate rendition of hues and tones is to set a custom white balance. We explain how

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE ON LOCATION

CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE POST-CAPTURE

RESCUING JPEGS • Like raw files, JPEGs can be opened in Adobe Camera Raw and adjusted using the White Balance picker tool. However, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have tools to bring back the colour in a JPEG file, too

Dynamic Range and Metering • We explain the concept of dynamic range: what it is, how it works and what effect it has on the images you take

WHAT THE CAMERA SEES • How light is captured by a camera’s sensor, and what effect dynamic range has on the tones displayed

METERING HIGHLIGHT AND SHADOWS

DYNAMIC RANGE: RAW AND JPEG

BIT DEPTH EXPLAINED

Shooting to the right • There is an easy technique that will help you to greatly reduce image noise, or even eliminate it – let more light into your images

Three filters you can’t live without • Despite the powers of Photoshop, there’s still an essential place for filters in your kit bag, as Jeremy Walker reveals

KIT LIST

Polarisers • Remove reflections and boost colour saturation

USING AN ND GRAD

Graduated neutral density filters • Balance the foreground and sky for perfect landscapes taken in-camera

KIT LIST

Neutral density filters • For extended exposures and creative effects, the ND filter offers all you need

KIT LIST

B&W Landscapes • Ian Bramham explores the way that shooting in mono can evoke feelings and emotions that are infinitely harder to capture in colour

TOP TIPS

SIMPLICITY: WHY IT WORKS

B&W Colour Filters • Colour filters are used with B&W film to control the brightness of different colours, but the same effect can be achieved digitally

Complete guide to shooting infrared images • You may not be able to see infrared light, but a camera can. We explain everything you need to know about infrared photography

WHITE BALANCE

USING FILTERS

LENSES AND FILTERS

SWAPPING CHANNELS • One popular technique when shooting digital infrared images is to swap the red and blue channels around. Having taken a custom white balance reading, the resulting image should have a red/amber sky. To turn this into a bright blue sky...


Expand title description text