Michael Freeman: Easy-to-go Post-production in 11 steps

June 21, 2011 by  
Filed under Photography Basics, Post Production

This is a longer-than-usual one, inevitably. Let’s start by being clear what post-production (aka ‘post’) is. It’s a term long used in the professional world of imaging, especially in the motion picture industry, and it means what is says on the label – work done to an image (or film or video) after it has [...]

Michael Freeman – How did you shoot that? – Hot for gold

Gold, now trading at outrageous prices, is ba generic zithromax no prescription ck in the news, relatively speaking. On an earlier occasion in the cycle of gold prices, I had an assignment shooting the bullion business, which is secretive in the extreme. I was doing it for a gold industry publication, which was about the [...]

Michael Freeman: Think color as Hue, Saturation, Brightness

May 10, 2011 by  
Filed under Beyond the Basics, Color

Color became complicated in photography once digital took over from film, and the reason, paradoxical though it may sound, is that for the first time photographers could manage the colors of the images they shot. That’s actually putting it rather mildly, because once imagery went digital, we have all had to manage the color, like [...]