Is this photo a double exposure? Technically, the term is reserved for when an analogue camera opens its shutter twice over the same slide of film, superimposing one image atop another. Some debate the issue feverishly, with critics complaining that when the images is a Photoshopped composite, it isn’t true double exposure. Others shrug that […]
When you first get your brand new, expensive and sophisticated DSLR or Mirrorless camera, you may be forgiven for thinking that’s all you really need to take good photos… and, for a time, you’re content to explore the myriad of features and settings that festoon the outer body of the camera, as well as those […]
London is a spectacular city to photograph at night—the historic buildings are lit up, the double-decker buses zoom past, and, last Christmas, there were strings of fairy lights hung across everything. In this image, you simply see it all: Tomasz Kozak, a Polish-born cityscape and wedding photographer living in Manchester, captured this great nighttime shot with a three-second […]
Sometimes, the best photos we shoot are taken by accident. That’s what happened here, when Bradley Friesen lay his iPhone down on six feet of solid ice, only to find it had captured this incredible microscopic image: Friesen is a professional helicopter pilot, and on this day he was filming a pick-up hockey game amid secluded mountains in […]
The following image is —incredibly—not computerized in any way. That is to say, the bear, at least, is as real as the girl. The whole thing is a remarkably deft photo shoot showing the delicate and beautiful potential harmony between humanity and nature: This fairytale image is one of a whole portfolio created by Russian […]
May 26, 2021, was the first lunar eclipse in three years—although it was only barely total, with the moon completely inside Earth’s shadow for just 14 minutes or so. But, as usual, I would bite off more than I could chew. Preparation I had a relatively new Evostar 150mm refractor on loan from Sky-Watcher Australia […]
Just in case you forgot how intrinsically majestic airplanes were, Alex Esguerra is here to remind you. An aviation photography specialist, Esguerra captured this image of a Boeing 747 taking off at San Francisco International Airport, at the end of Runway 28R, cutting through the fog and leaving the sun behind: The image speaks for […]
It takes a special kind of patience to make the natural world look as beautiful as it can. For Minnesotan photographer Derek Griggs, that means waiting around in sub-zero temperatures to capture a sunset over Lake Superior, as he did to snag this image: As Griggs explains, the photo may be pleasant, but the effort it took […]
Almost invariably, digital photography leads to one big truth—hundreds, even thousands of images end up stored on your hard drive. I have run an “Enjoy Your Camera” course for many years—I’ve instructed almost 2,000 keen photographers face-to-face—and they all seem to have one key question. “What do I do with all my images, and what […]
Do you want to make quick selections in Photoshop? Are you looking for how to make precise selections in Photoshop? Then you are in the right place. In this article, I will share with you how to use three excellent Photoshop tools to quickly make precise selections. In fact, I always use these tools to […]
