Melissa Mercier: Perfectly Private – 6

Spring has sprung in Quebec! The days have been warm so I decided to capture this flora and fauna at night fall. Dusk quickly turned into total darkness so my Manfrotto lights became more important than the camera itself. These shots are all taken just steps from the bank of the Saint-Lawrence river on my [...]

Frank Düpmann: A tutorial on High Dynamic Range images.

Ruins of former Russian sanatoriums (near Berlin) – „natural“ settings The Dynamic Range (DR) of your favourite camera is limited – that‘s the bad news. It means that in „challenging“ light situations, either the higlights are blown or there are no details in shadows, all black. In the example above, either the windows would be [...]

Michael Freeman – How Did You Shoot That? – Harmony at dusk

You may not immediately agree with this, if the word architecture conjures up places like Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, or the Palace of Versailles, or the Chrysler Building in New York, but as a subject for photography it really has the potential to be boring. Photographers who do this for a living [...]

Timo Frey: The Skyper

Frankfurt is a perfect place for long exposure captures. You will find plenty of photo opportunities here. For this tutorial I choose one of the largest building in Germany. The skyscraper is located in the banking district and is one of three buildings that together form the Skyper ensemble. Its quadrant-shaped silhouette is a distinctive [...]

Berges Christian: Negative Fill – Controlling Contrast

Don’t take the term too literal… negative fill can be a quite positive technique if you want to control the lighting contrast on a subject. First, let’s recall the general function of a fill when shooting a face or an object: It affects the proportion between key light and shadows. While a ‘normal’ or ‘positive’  [...]

Roberto introduces ALCE – A Local Contrast Enhancer for Photoshop

Roberto introduces in his work a new tool and Manfrotto is honored to be able to talk about it, as part of the experience of one of our master photographers. ALCE is an easy-to-use and powerful Photoshop tool to effectively improve and finely tune the local contrast of an image. In his website Roberto gives [...]