Don’t Bruise the Pixels
I made a presentation for the Photographic Society of Rhode Island (PSRI) on January 20, 2009. The title “Don’t Bruise the Pixels” was the core idea behind nondestructive editing in Photoshop. After the initial talk segment, I demonstrated the idea and what could be done by using layers, blend modes, and blend if sliders. The following slide show contains the initial talk material. It may make more sense to people who watched to presentation but the general ideas can provide the foundation for ideas that you may use to adjust your workflow. The following link will pop up a window and display the slide presentation. To navigate, use the “Next” and “Previous” arrows at the bottom of the slides to see the full content of all.
Single File HDR, really?
Well, not exactly but perhaps a mini HDR; but a very useful one at that. There are numerous articles, Web tutorials, books written about the high dynamic range image processing and for a good reason. The process yields remarkable results with detailed highlights and detailed shadows. Images obtained from HDR processing encompass a range of tonalities that would not be possible to capture on film or in digital sensors. After all, who does not want to have a film or a digital sensor that doubles or triples the EV range, maybe even more. Read more
Photographic (digital) Workflow
The term workflow has been closely associated with digital photography. I think this is a misnomer. The core idea is, and should be, photographic workflow. Indeed, before the advent of digital photography, photographers talked about this very subject, perhaps not with the same name, but the same concept nevertheless. It was important to know the essentials of exposure, exposure adjustments, developing the film, making proofs, choosing images, making test prints, studying and marking them for the desired results, printing, making local adjustments, dodging, burning, local developing, arresting development, water baths, two-developer processing, washing, drying, toning, touch ups, mounting, displaying. Now, if this is not a work flow, nothing is! Read more
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