Techniques

The techniques posted here are to help enhance your digital photography and your use of Photoshop. They range from beginning to advanced, though you may find a little of both in most techniques if you read through them. Most will be related to nature and travel photography since that is what I mostly do. If you want to print out the file, use photo paper or you will likely find the text difficult to read (it is designed primarily to be read on screen).

Blacks, Whites and Midtones - discover how the proper setting of blacks along with checking whites and midtones in Photoshop can give you better colors and tonalities in your photos. 

• Double-processing RAW files is a key technique for nature photographers interested in getting the best images from scenes with large tonal ranges.
• Achromatic close-up lenses are considerably different than inexpensive close-up lenses (or filters).
• Full-Frame Fisheye and Nature Photography - As photographers, we are always looking for something to give a photo an edge, something unique that will help it stand out from the images people see everyday. The full-frame fisheye does just that.
• Low Angles (Part II) - Shooting low angles lets you bring small subjects into an environmental setting, plus you get impact from the low angle itself. Olympus's new E-330 goes a long way in helping make low angle shooting easier.
• Low Angle Compositions (Part I) - Early on, one of my favorite lenses was a 24mm wide-angle shot down.
• Working Color - The colors above come from several things: the right exposure,
  use of a polarizing filter, how the black areas of the photo are set and adjustment of midtones.
• Working The Subject - Even just changing the placement of a key part of a composition, in this case the sun, will change the photo significantly. This is a quick and easy way of experimenting with a composition.