What Is Exposure Value ?

In photography, exposure value (EV0 is a number that represents a quantity of light. Each increase or decrease in number indicates a doubling or halving in the amount of light; often referred to a stop of light. Insights Members can login to read the full...

5 Ways To Use Abstraction

1 – Simplify 2 – Clarify A Structure 3 – Show A Process   4  – Visualize A Concept 5 – Create A Pattern To one degree or another, every photograph is abstract. At a minimum, photographs are flat rather than three-dimensional. Some photographs are more...

Sublime Symmetries Drawn Out Of Ice

1 2 I’ve spent the better part of my life exploring symmetry, especially bilateral symmetry. (You’ll find a chapter on Symmetry in my book Adobe Photoshop Master Class.) When I make symmetrical images I pay careful attention to three things: one, the dividing line that...

5 Tools You Can Use To Make The Most Of Shadows & Highlights Without HDR

There are many things you can do in Photoshop to make the most of shadow and highlight detail in images, even if you didn’t bracket exposures for HDR. Curves Curves, the most precise tool for modifying brightness and contrast, allows you to target and adjust...

How Many Exposures Do You Need For HDR ?

1 exposure - scenes like this won't benefit from HDR 3 exposures - scenes like this may be made with 1 exposure but benefit from more 5 exposures - scenes like this require HDR How many exposures do you need for HDR images? It depends....

Creative Detail Enhancement with HDR Software

  HDR software is most typically used to render shadow and highlight detail, but it can also be used to enhance tonal separation and detail in any range of tones, even in images with extremely low contrast. The very same tools that are used to...

Photographer Kenro Izu Interviewed – 3 Videos

You’ll gain real insight into the mind of photographer Kenro Izu in these three videos. Read more in our conversation. Read 9 great quotes by photographer Kenro Izu. View 12 Great Photographs By Kenro Izu.

Landscape Masters – Michael Kenna and Paul & John Paul Caponigro

“B&H’s OPTIC 2016 Imaging Conference provided numerous opportunities to talk with some of the most respected nature and landscape photographers working today, but the highlights of our two days at OPTIC had to be our chat with Michael Kenna, the event’s keynote presenter, and our conversation...

Capture Sharpening With Lightroom & Adobe Camera Raw 

Adobe Camera Raw's Detail panel Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages – capture (Do it during Raw conversion.), creative (Do it in Photoshop.), and output (Automate it.). This article covers the first stage of sharpening – capture sharpening. Capture sharpening benefits all images....

Advanced Creative Image Sharpening Techniques – Double Pass & Hybrid

No sharpening. Double pass Unsharp Mask sharpening. Hybrid Unsharp Mask and High Pass sharpening. Different sharpening techniques make the world look different. A world of difference can be seen between the thin hard line of Unsharp Mask and the broad feathered line of High Pass Sharpening. Can...