Creating the classic horror effect of blood from the eye in photoshop. Or in the case above perhaps the biblical blood from a stone.
[Read more…]Horror Effect – Adding Blood from the Eye in Photoshop
Setting Up the Sony a1
It is now a year since I became the proud, and slightly intimidated, owner of the Sony a1, above. (See “My Kit – Cameras and Lenses“). This is a powerful camera designed to be customised to suit the individual workflow of the photographer. Initially this flexibility seems overwhelming, but this post describes how I have configured the camera to suit the way I shoot.
[Read more…]Tethered Workflow using Capture One Pro (Sony)
Shooting tethered to a laptop enables the photographer to see what they are shooting in the full resolution of the laptop screen as they are shooting it.
If you have to get it right, there and then, tethered shooting provides the best opportunity for checking that the images are at the standard required.
[Read more…]Weirdness and Science of Circular Polarisers
“Do you know, polarisers [circular polarisers] only work in one direction,” clearly a myth propagated by someone whose education in the arts had kept them away from even basic physics.
However, it’s true. What’s more if you hold a circular polariser up to a mirror, just a few inches from your eye, it’s clear the correct way round and dark the wrong way round. Me doing this below:
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| Looking into a mirror with the polariser the correct way round – clear | Looking into a mirror with the polariser the wrong way round – dark. |
This doesn’t happen with a linear polariser which works exactly the same either way round. What’s going on?
Explanation below.
[Read more…]LAB Colour
Photoshop’s route to more vibrant colours via an alternative colour space. This post looks at the Photoshop LAB colour space:
- how it mirrors the biology of human vision at a deeper level than the RGB of the retina’s cones
- how it can be effectively manipulated.
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