Frey Timo: The Cosmic Girl – Part 2

The second part of this tutorial is about post processing, especially about how you can combine the images we created in the first part. If you missed the first part you can find it here: http://manfrottoschoolofxcellence.com/2011/11/15/frey-timo-the-cosmic-girl/ The first two steps were described in the previous article, we continue with step3 here. Overview of the processing [...]

Frey Timo: The Cosmic Girl

The Concept: The idea came to me during a long, rainy weekend.  I sat in front of the TV, absorbing Marvel Comic type films.  That insighted my imagination: a hero composition was needed.  Out was another photo of a super, bicepts equipped Schwarzenegger, sun-beach clothed hero flying through intergalactic space. My photo had to be [...]

Michael Freeman: Stitching for a Panorama

One of the great, and originally unexpected benefits of digital shooting was the discovery that you could join together overlapping pictures. This, at the time, was remarkable. Now it’s commonplace, and so popular that new camera models have the facility built in – just swing the camera (or phone, for that matter), keep the button [...]

Frey Timo: Smoke photography – Part 2 Post processing

The second part of the smoke photography tutorial is about post processing, especially how to colorize your smoke images. Step-by-step I will show you an easy way how you can improve your smoke photos. Overview of the processing steps: Step 1 – Basic adjustments   Open your photo in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).   If [...]

Frey Timo: Smoke Photography – Part 1 Introduction and Light-Setup

Creating images with smoke has become more popular over recent years. That’s not surprising, because Smoke photography is an interesting mix between abstract photography and creative post processing. This introduction should give you some insight into smoke photography so that you will be able to create your own amazing images. What’s the best smoke source? [...]

Stefan Steinmann: My experience

As I mentioned in the first article, it is now about 3 years ago when I started to make the first drop pictures. If you decide to make some pictures of water drops sooner or later you will come to the point when you have to take the decision to use an infra red light-barrier [...]

Michael Freeman: Night-time HDR….and definitely a tripod

First let’s get one thing clear. HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging does not mean startling and hyper-ventilated scenes. It can end up like that, but that’s to do with the processing, not with the basic principle of shooting a range of exposures that are then combined into a single image file which, if you do [...]

Lucas Gilman: Abiqua Drop

I’ve been tinkering with the idea of shooting video for the last couple of years and the release of Nikon D7000 pushed me over the edge. I recently dove headfirst into HDSLR video and I don’t think there is any turning back. Will I quit shooting stills? Never. And, I’m going to shoot stills right [...]

Düpmann Frank: Deep Focus Fusion (DFF)

This technique, also called „Focus Stacking“, is widely used in scientific applications to overcome the challenge of shallow depth of field in digital micro or macro photography. Depth of field of a macro lens might not be enough to get the whole subject sharp front to back. Especially microscopes do usually not have a diapragm [...]

Stefan Steinman: The instant of a water drop

It all started with a photo in a magazine. The photo made it to top spot in a contest. It showed the instant of a water drop’s touch-down on a surface – caught in the exact moment of touching the surface – but not yet completely consumed. It’s a montage of four single images, and [...]

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