Entries tagged with “photo developing” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

The sun in the photo below apparently frames the northern tower of the Golden Gate Bridge in a perfect circle. In fact, there are apparently three "suns" in the photo. One sun is real, two of them are optical artifacts. The fake suns, including the perfect one framing the Golden Gate tower are caused by an optical phenomenon called double...

It's remarkable what you can do in post-processing. Compare my original conversion from the RAW of my Yosemite Dreams (far below) with a more recent version (immediately below) I created in Photoshop for a special project. (There's actually no comparison to either version with the far duller look of the original RAW file that appeared when I first looked at...

The smaller the aperture (opening in the lens), the greater the depth of field (the distance in front and behind a subject that is apparently in focus). The aperture designated by the very small f-stop f/64 provides much greater depth of field than the far larger aperture of f/1.4. Small apertures with great depth of field are used to create...

How do you work with landscapes that show an extravagant dynamic range? I was down by the Bay photographing sunset. It was clear to me that the scene had great dynamic range, from the blown-out highlights in the clouds to the deep shadows in the rocks along the shoreline. My normal approach to this situation is a kind of ad-hoc...

At the end of June this year, the full moon rose in the eastern sky at about sunset (although by July 2 after dark). This cosmologic timing gave me the chance to consider extravagant dynamic range. In other words, what can you do with captures in which the dynamic range is simply too great to process for both bright areas...

Mark and I went back out to Arch Rock last night. It was a little earlier than my last hike out there, so I was able to work my way down the little canyon and across a couple of rock faces to the beach, where I photographed the arch in Arch Rock in the gathering dusk. Of course, I also...

I've recovered from Vegas enough to think about writing a wrap-up here. Here were the highlights of my week at Photoshop World: Eddie Tapp's induction into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Eddie was gracious and kind as usual in his acceptance speech, and I've never had the opportunity to meet an author's parents before. (Turns out charm and kindness are...

My quest for perfect B&W prints from digital capture has led me to some very cool tools. The two most important have been a Photoshop plug-in called Alien Skin Exposure and the Epson R2400 printer. Working with this software/hardware tandem has produced satisfying results reminiscent of my darkroom days. Here's a quick look at how I use this software/hardware...