You probably have seen dozens of websites offering iPhone and iPad backgrounds as downloads but why use someone else's work when you can easily create custom iPad backgrounds in a matter of minutes. The problem with using your photos on an iPad is the device can be used both landscape and portrait so the best background image size is actually square, as the background also … [Read more...]
Improving Photos with Brushes in Aperture 3
Aperture 3 brings a stack of new features to managing and processing your RAW photo library. One of the features I like most is the powerful brushes tool. Combine Aperture 3 with a Wacom tablet and you possibilities are endless. Obviously with a stack of time you can pretty much enhance a photo to near perfection but I decided to put Aperture 3 and a Wacom Bamboo 2 (read our … [Read more...]
Street Photography 101 by Eric Kim
So you want to get started with street photography huh? It seems to be quite popular lately. It is a quite exciting type of photography, as you can go around in public and take pictures of (gasp) strangers! It is also pretty awesome because you don’t need a Canon 1D Mark III with expensive L lenses to get good images. Hell—you can use any camera, your point-and-shoot, your … [Read more...]
How To : Create a Lightroom Preset
I previously covered the large number of Lightroom presets that are readily available to transform your photos at the click of a mouse. Eventually though you might want to venture to producing your own creative presets. In a recent series I found myself processing a batch of photos adjusting the exposure, recovery etc to the same level for each photo. Lightroom offers the … [Read more...]
10 sure ways to improve your photography
Probably one thing we all have in common regardless of how long we have been taken photos is our desire to improve. The Photo Profile series has been a great way to gain an insight to the work of other photographers around the world and over the next few months we are going to look at different photography projects styles and post production exercises. To kick things off … [Read more...]