My wife has an obsession with Orchids and they seem to be slowly invading our house. As beautiful as Orchids are, on closer inspection I think you’ll find they have a darker side. Take their flowers for instance: their petals could be mistaken for the head of a cobra and if the resemblance to snakes was [...]
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Continuing our series of using colour grading techniques “borrowed” from the film industry with Photoshop to enhance our photos. We previously covered using, hue, saturation and exposure, simulating the time of day and creating the bleach bypass look. This week we look at how we can create the high energy (perhaps overused in the cinema) Teal and Orange look, popularised by Transformers.
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Using colour grading techniques “borrowed” from the film industry we can use Photoshop to enhance our own photos. We have previously covered using, hue, saturation and exposure as well as simulating the time of day. This week we look at how we can achieve one of the most popular looks, popularised by Saving Private Ryan, [...]
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Continuing my series on Colour Grading Photos, this week we are looking at how we can use the techniques we have learnt so far to change the time of day. In this series we are taking inspiration from the techniques used by colourists in film/TV to use colour to effect mood, time of day or create a stylised [...]
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Continuing my series on Colour Grading Photos, this week we are looking at how both Saturation and Exposure can effect mood. In this series we are taking inspiration from the techniques used by colourists in film/TV to use colour to effect mood, time of day or create a stylised shot.
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As discussed in my last post, when colourists are grading film, they look to use colour to enhance the message the director is trying to portray. We can do the same with stills photography and use colour to enhance the message or story, we as photographers are trying to convey. We will start with the [...]
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The current trend to give photos a cross process look (or colour treatment) is certainly a visually interesting effect. The effect, applied in post process, once needed a little bit of Photoshop foo (and originally a bit of darkroom magic) to achieve but the advent of apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, has made the effect ubiquitous and [...]
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All good art movements have had a manifesto, they are normally linked to a small group of artists with a like minded approach to their work. Manifestos can help to define a genre but more than that they can keep you focused and set constraints that promote creativity. I was looking for a photographer’s manifesto [...]
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For a while I have been toying with painting and sculpture in addition to my photography but as a keen amateur artist I have limited time. With the pressures of running a business by day, I don’t have the time to do it all and so something has to give. I will still blog about [...]
Read Full ArticleHere a short time-lapse I did over the period of a day looking out of my studio window and from a couple of locations I visited during the day.
Read Full ArticleI am a big fan of Abelardo Morell and some of his ideas were the inspiration for my Reflactions project. One thing that I saw back in 2009 on the BBC’s excellent Genius of Photography series was how Abelardo used a room as a giant Camera Obscura. He does this by covering up all the [...]
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