All Day I Dream About Photography

Studio Portrait Lighting - A How To

Here is a tutorial showing how a professional photographer sets up the lights to make a studio portrait.
All pictures in and text in this tutorial are copyrighted to Ben from SonShine Studio.

This photography lighting tutorial is constituted of seven images.
Five will show what each light does on its own, one will show all of the lights together, then the final image will show a wide angle shot showing the light placement around the subject.

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Photoshop Tutorial: Tip for refining the HDR mask

We have already seen in this HDR series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials:
1- How to achieve an HDR image using layers and layer masks
2- How to create a better mask for exposure blending using the threshold tool
3- How to create a better mask for exposure blending using the level tools

I don’t know if you’ve noticed in each one of this post we will end up refining the exposure blending mask using the brush tool.

Today in the last post of this series, I am going to give you a quick and very simple tip that will simplify your life when it comes to tweak that mask.

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Tokina 10-17 fisheye hits the market

The new Tokina 10-17 Fisheye f/3.5-4.5 is finally available.

This is the first ZOOM fisheye lens I hear about, and it is for digital cameras with a cropped sensor.

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Photoshop Tutorial: Tips for creating HDR layer masks using levels

This is the third post in the adobe photoshop tutorial series: achieving HDR images using layers and layers mask.

Yesterday we saw a better way to deal with steps 3 and 4 of how to achieve HDR images using layer masks in adobe photoshop using the threshold tool, today I am going to teach you an even more powerful and flexible way of creating this mask.

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It is time to buy a new CF Card

Sandisk Ultra CF Cards are on rebates, get yours today before the offer ends.

SanDisk 1GB Ultra II CompactFlash: $24.99

SanDisk 2GB Ultra II CompactFlash: $39.99

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Last call for nikon photo contest 2006-2007

Only 3 days are left if you wish to participate in the Nikon photo contest international for the year 2006-2007.

All submissions should be posted by November 30th 2006.

There are two categories opened for this contest:
* Free subject
* “Smile, Smile, Smile!”

Entries to each category are accepted as prints sent by conventional mail or as JPEG images sent via the Internet.

Grand prize is a Nikon Photography equipment estimated at $10.000 USD

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Photoshop Tutorial: Tips for creating HDR layer masks using threshold

We have seen yesterday a step by step adobe photoshop Tutorial on how to achieve HDR images using layer masks. The most challenging part of that tutorial was step 5 where we should go and craft that rapidly created ND filter.
It takes both talent and time to successfully paint those transition regions that should be neither completely black nor white.
If you are of those who struggle to know the correct shade of gray to use on the edges, here is an easy way to get you started.

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Give me 2 minutes and I’ll make you a better photographer

This post is dedicated to the new photographers, it is a quickly compiled set of tips to help you improve your photography skills by pin-pointing some of the common errors that can easily spoil an image and giving tips to add impact to your pictures

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Photoshop tutorial: HDR using layer masks

This is the third post about High Dynamic Range -HDR- after
1. Dynamic range optimization: Showing how to maximize the dynamic range of your picture.
and
2. Merge to HDR explained: Explaining how to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 merge to HDR feature.

This tutorial explains, step by step, how to achieve HDR pictures using layers and layers mask in Adobe Photoshop. It is the method I use and prefer and Daniella did a amazing job writing down this tutorial.

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Adobe Photoshop bug or Canon DPP bug?

No don’t worry nothing really serious here just found out about this and thought it would be rather funny to share it.
What do you need for the test
* Adobe Photoshop CS2
* Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP)

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