I came across a movie by Peter Hurley about the importance of jawline in portrait photography. Looking at the examples he provide it is clear how a portrait can change fundamentally with the slightest movement from your model. I highly recommend this move/tutorial for all photographers wondering why their portrait photos just wont look professional. Myself; I learned lots from it!
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The HDR effect has been heavily overused lately but that should not keep it out of your photos. There are a number of photos which can really be strengthen of this effect and one of these are portraits of faces full of details. For this guide I will use a photo of an elderly man I found at Flickr where we will aim to lift the straws of bread but also the texture of his skin to make this photo really pop out.
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This is a quick tutorial on how to use GIMP for colorizing a black and white photograph. Described is the technique in general but not in detail since each photograph will be unique in its own composition. The photograph I used is of Albert Einstein and this is one of my favorite photo of him since there is something beautiful over the playfulness in his smile. I can gaze upon the photo and wonder what he was thinking about.
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When we are to take a photograph of a flowing waterfall, the waves of grass on a field or perhaps the dreamy slow flow of a small creek it is easy to end up with an image where all seem frozen. The feeling of the location that was so clear at the site disappear completely when the photo has frozen the motions that was visible. How to counter this to bring a photo back in which we can save the feeling and the look of what we actually saw?
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Sometimes even a good photo can be made better if you change the real thing into something more fitting for the surroundings. In this tutorial I will show how you can change the color of an object in Photoshop Elements and the example I show is how to change the color of a car.
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