Ian Spence – Mountain High
Mountain High
Shootout at the HDR Corral
At our Digital Group meeting on 13/8/2012 Barney demonstrated HDR techniques using Photoshop and Photomatix to tonemap bracketed exposures of three scenes and then issued an HDR challenge to all who were present and signed up for the task. Your mission, since you chose to accept it, is to go way beyond the call of … Read more
How to prepare images for our website galleries
We love to receive your images for posting on our website, but please note that our webmasters are unpaid volunteers and they cannot spend time fixing up your images, resizing them, adding labels. Please have the images correctly prepared for us! How to prepare images for our website galleries: Image width 1024 pixels maximum Image … Read more
Fixing Old Photos
Have you been dredging through those boxes of old photos and came across one that you want to fix? Here’s the old photo that requires fixing. The higher the resolution that you scan at the better: Let’s bring out the detail by copying the bottom layer and applying a tonal contrast enhancement using Unsharp Mask … Read more
Repairing or Removing Distracting Backgrounds – Tutorial
This is an example of how Camberwell Camera Club supports its members with advice about their photography work. I have taken this straight from an email… Hi Dennis, The image that you showed at the portrait retouching night was a tricky choice to edit and I think I’ve worked out an easy way to … Read more
Monitor Calibration using the i1 Display
Monitor Calibration using i1 Display Our club has recently acquired an i1 Display calibrator from Imagescience which may be borrowed by members to calibrate their monitors and/or projectors for accurate colour rendition. You can find out more about the product here: X-Rite i1Display Pro Please support Imagescience as their prices are reasonable, they provide quality … Read more
Photo Technique – One step Resizing, renaming and watermarking
This technique shows you how to Resize, Rename and Watermark your images for our website or monthly competitions in one easy step using a free tool called FastStone Photo resizer. Version 3.1 can be downloaded for free from http://www.faststone.org/ Start the program and browse to the location where your source files are Working in the … Read more
Photoshop Techniques – Reverse Unsharp Mask
Here is a contrast enhancement technique demonstrated in Better Photoshop Techniques Issue 26 2011 Open an image like this one, taken inside a workshop where the lighting was not adequate to give high contrast. The image has that typical flatness of a digital photo. Apply > sharpen >unsharp mask at ~40,250,0 (Choose amount according to … Read more
Photoshop Techniques – Selective Sharpening for the Scene
Here is the sharpening technique demonstrated in the Digital Group meeting 11th July Guy Gowan is the source for this channel based sharpening technique, have a look at http://www.guygowan.com A subscription to his website will get you the tutorials as well as his action set. Selective sharpening can be well done on individual images by … Read more
