PHOTOGRAPHER'S LAIR

  • Rabari – A New Photography Guide

    Hey everyone! I wanted to let you all know about Rabari – Encounters with the Nomadic Tribe, a fascinating new photography guide written by renowned travel photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich and recently published by our friends at Light Stalking. I have to say that my first impression on a quick scan-through of this eBook was simply, Read more

  • Demystifying Levels, Curves, and the Histogram

    Ok, so this tutorial is going to get a little more technical and theoretical, but I promise I’ll try to make it as easy as possible. To start with I’m going to describe what the Histogram is and why you should care about it (No really, it is your friend!!). Then we are going to Read more

  • 6 Fast Photo Fixes Pros Use

    If you spend much time at all reading photography how-to sites or taking classes or even just talking to photographers, you’ll probably hear the mantra “get it right in-camera”. I totally agree, but what do you do if it isn’t just right? I seriously doubt that any photographer out there gets card after card full Read more

  • Custom Brushes – The Secret of Background Effects

        One very powerful feature in Photoshop is the countless ways you can create and modify brushes. Just about any design can be turned into a brush and then “painted” into your image to create all kinds of effects. This tutorial will serve as a simple introduction to working with custom brushes. I was Read more

  • 3 simple photo enhancements

    Focus, Vignette and Sepia – three simple effects to enhance your photos. This tutorial will delve a little deeper into working with layers while giving you three really simple but cool effects for getting creative and artistic with your photos. A very popular portrait technique has been to use a filter that creates a blurred Read more

  • Layers 2 – Blurring the background

    Background of original image was blurred In this post we’re going one more step into understanding layers by developing a project around using a layer mask. The first layers tutorial had a brief little intro to them and now it’s time to start really getting a grasp of what they can do. This project may take Read more