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With all the snow we're getting here lately, I thought it'd be useful to make a video sharing some of the techniques, tricks, tips... whatever you want to call them, I use when I shoot in the snow.
Why I believe that contact sheets can be useful to a digital photographer, and how to create a contact sheet with Adobe Photoshop.
Contrast is one of the most important elements in photography. I'm not talking -only- about the slider in your photo editor to manipulate the tones of the image.
Contrast means difference. Creating difference between your subject and everything else, you are able to tell a story.
This can be achieved using the differences in color and luminance, but also using shapes, textures and more.
While we seek contrast between the subject and the rest of the photo, we want to minimize it within those elements - thus increasing it between them. One of my favorite techniques to achieve this is long exposure photography: smoothing out water, for example, we remove contrast from it hence increasing that contrast between the water and our subject.
I show you some examples of this and other techniques in this video:
Despite the lack of it, color is very important in Black and White Photography.
White Balance (or Color Balance) is one of most commonly used tools (it's actually two: temperature and tint) in color photography to modify the warmth and tint of an image.
It is overlooked by many when it comes to Black and White imagery, but we'll see why you might want to add this tool to your monochrome editing workflow.
Read MoreWhen we see something that catches our eye, it's very tempting to focus on that and start shooting from where we’re standing. This is a mistake.
A good subject is not enough to make a good image.
It's very important to stop and give the scene some time, see beyond the obvious and pay close attention to the background and the edges of our frame. They can make or break an image.
Even the most beautiful subject will make for a bad image with the wrong background.
Read MoreIn this week's chapter about Long Exposure Photography (the last one!), we'll talk about a few things that we have left and were hard to fit in previous posts.
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