07.01.07
Posted in Techniques at 6:40 am by Polyvios
In color film processing skipping the bleach stage of development, thus not removing the silver from the film, would result in high contrast images with desaturated colors. When used with certain lighting conditions the effect would give a very moody output to the final image. In the digital era cameras do not use silver to render their pictures and as such alternative ways are necessary to recreate this effect. To date numerous commercial filters advertise “Bleaching” as one of their selling point however the effect is simple enough to make to skip out on that particular purchase.
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06.22.07
Posted in Techniques at 9:41 pm by Polyvios
In a previous post we’ve explained how to use a fill-in flash to lift the shadows in a photo. However there are situation where even the most experienced photographer cannot afford the luxury of fill-in flash, in this post we will describe a very simple and efficient way of recreating this effect using photoshop.
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06.18.07
Posted in Techniques at 1:00 am by Polyvios
A visitor called Claire from NY requested a tutorial on how to make a photo of hers look like it was taken with nightvision. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a camera with this ability even though it is abundant on video cameras! To be honest I have never really used this effect but I guess it can be useful to the correct type of shot. The technique is not the simplest one so I included an action at the end of this tutorial to help speed things up.
Night shots work best with this tutorial
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06.17.07
Posted in Articles at 12:55 am by Polyvios
In view of the given inactivity during the passed two year it stroke this photographer as a good time to update some gear, mainly due to the higher standards set by stock agencies yet part to the need of a fourth shutter replacement and an increasing amount of hot pixels on an aging yet trusty 10D. Having been a longtime supporter of upgrading glass instead of bodies for the immensely longer useful life span they offer it was very refreshing to touch base with all the new technology involved on digital camera bodies. Refreshing and hugely confusing!
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06.12.07
Posted in Articles at 11:55 pm by Polyvios
Shortly after writing “In The Archives” a new backup software came out that sounded very promising, it would backup the alterations made for a RAW file into it’s own database hence rendering the need to backup the layered photoshop files unnecessary, with a possible exemption to photo altering techniques being used on the photo. To implement this fully it was essential to re-process the RAW files using this system to collect the RAW conversion data into this database, which would be then backed up to the same DVD as the photos. A very conscious decision was made at the time to restore all former backups and suspend further ones to a future timedate when the re-processing had caught up to the, at the time, current photo taking.
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