Posted by David Peterson on 23 Apr 2010 as Image Editing, Software, Tips
In the last tutorial, we got started with creating our first action sequence photo. We got out our tripod and went on location to shoot five photos continuously. Now we are going to take those pictures and stitch them together to create a sequence. Before you begin, I highly recommend Adobe Photoshop for this tutorial, [...]
Posted by David Peterson on 23 Apr 2010 as Composition, Image Editing, Image Files, Outdoors, Shutter, Tips
Sequence photos provide a truly amazing perspective for action shots. They allow the viewer to see the progression of something as it is happening. Unlike video, all of the important parts are frozen, so we can see every step. There a lot of sports where action sequences bring out the true character of the athletes. [...]
Posted by David Peterson on 12 May 2008 as Composition, Image Editing, Tips
In my very first tip, I recommend moving closer to your subject. Almost any shot will look better if you take two or three steps closer.
It works especially well on faces because when you fill the frame with your subject’s face, there is less clutter to draw the viewer’s eye away from the pleasing face.
Posted by David Peterson on 20 Oct 2007 as Image Editing, News, Online
I’ve long been a fan of Picnik – a free online image editing program. In some great news today, Picnik has been announced as the long-awaited Flickr photo editing software.
Posted by David Peterson on 30 Aug 2007 as General, Image Editing
Every year or so, something radically new invades our digital photography world. I predict this technique for image resizing will be this year’s contribution.
Until now, if you wanted to resize a photo, you could either resize the whole image, or crop parts of it. This means you either lose detail of your subjects, or lose [...]