Six years ago I found myself clocking up around 100 hours per week working part time in my pet photography business while holding down full time employment.
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Travel photo and backup tips
Photographer Rachel Devine shares her tips on travel photography, backup on the run, wi-fi and immediate sharing of your images.
African dreaming
Adelaide-based photographer Hilary Hann spent her formative years in a world very different from the sedate and orderly City of Churches. Born in Singapore, her family spent time in North Borneo before moving to East Africa and settling in Kenya where she was raised.
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Clarity, vibrance and saturation
Learn how the relationships between these three important adjustment tools can enhance your photos…
Advanced Levels adjustments
Tips for using the Levels adjustments in an image editor to control brightness, contrast and colour balance.
Taking the macro view
Macro lenses are the path to larger-than-life close-ups.
Tips for editing raw files
Photographers interested in printing their pictures will usually record raw files at the same time as the regular JPEG format, and most serious cameras include a RAW+JPEG setting for this purpose. Advanced cameras let you choose the size and quality of the JPEG image so you can opt for the biggest and best JPEGs or the smallest JPEGs for online sharing and when storage space is limited.
Filters and effects
Many of today’s cameras come with built-in filter effects that can be applied”¨ to shots as you take them. They are only applied to JPEGs because raw files are, by definition, created without adjustments. However, most (if not all) filter effects can be applied once images are in an editable format (JPEG or TIFF) and there’s plenty of software to help you.
Monochrome conversion
While some subjects look best in full, glorious colour, others can work better when rendered into black and white. Even though dedicated monochrome cameras exist, it’s easy to convert a colour image into monochrome and the end result can be as satisfying. Better still, you also have a colour original to return to.
Colour adjustments
Most image editors include tools for adjusting the hue and intensity of colours, as well as adjusting the overall colour balance in images. These adjustments are necessary because image sensors sometimes fail to record ‘true’ colours or produce colours that are out-of-balance in one or more ways.