Blur It! Change the shutter speed and aperture in Photoshop for creative effects  I don’t know about you, but when I look at a photograph on my monitor, I sometimes wish I had used a different shutter speed (to freeze or blur action) or a different aperture (for more or less depth of field). |
From Drab To Fab In Five Minutes Quick steps in photoshop lightroom to add punch and contrast to a flat exposure  Check out the color, contrast and sharpness in this picture of a short-eared owl that I photographed with its prey, a small dove, in the Galápagos. |
Photographic Time Shifting Change the time of day and date of a picture  I recently was watching a nature show on television and marveled at some of the nighttime images of jaguars. |
Expand Your Range Using common photoshop adjustments for dynamic range enhancements  Look, ma! No HDR (high-dynamic-range) program or HDR plug-in! That’s right, HDR fans. |
Exposure Rescues Save a good shot from a bad exposure  A confession: I’ve made every photo mistake in the book. But, hey, I’ve been at this game for 331⁄3 years. |
Seeing The Big Picture Use panoramas to open up tight spaces  Panoramas usually are associated with sweeping landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. |
HDR To The Rescue High dynamic range saves the day in high-contrast situations  I guess I could have entitled this column, “Ricky’s Believe It or Not!” but “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” already has the corner on fascinating and intriguing stories—and has had that corner since I used to read the column of the same name in the Sunday comics in the 1950s at my grandmother’s apartment. |
From Flat To Fab How basic Photoshop CS4 enhancements can save a shot  This is a bad news/good news story—one with a happy ending. This past November, I had the opportunity to travel to the bottom of the world to photograph emperor penguins. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. I planned this trip to Antarctica for a year, and couldn’t wait for the day that I’d be on the ice photographing these magnificent animals. |
Quality Of Light Change the direction, color and mood of the light in your images  You may not believe it at first, but all the photographs in this issue of PCPhoto have something in common. That something in common is, of course, light. |
Thinking Ahead For Better Photos Envision the end result, and you’ll see your world differently  Ansel Adams, one of the greatest photographers of all time, was big on thinking ahead, or as he put it, envisioning the end result. I’m also big on envisioning the end result, as illustrated by the picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco that I used to open this column. It’s one of my favorite images from a recent trip. |
Rock ‘n’ Roll Photos Cool enhancements for jazzing up digital images  Check out my photograph of a young musician who was performing at a local park. My son thinks the photo rocks. He likes the spotlights shining on the subject, the blurred motion of the rocker’s hands and guitar, and the red-hot border that frames the image. He also likes the way I composed the picture, tilting my camera down to one side to create what’s called the disequilibrium effect. What’s more, he likes the way the young rocker is brighter than the background, which makes him stand out prominently in the scene. |
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