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How to Make Precise Adjustments with the Gradient Filter on Lightroom
This two-part video tutorial on using the Gradient Filter is great for Lightroom beginners.
Here’s a quick and useful tutorial that will teach you how to really, really, really use a gradient filter. One of the most useful tools on your Lightroom arsenal is the gradient filter. As one of Lightroom’s powerful local editing tools, it lets you make changes only to a specific part of your frame. If that sounds something you could use for your photos, this two-part video tutorial by Joshua…
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Around Droitwich Spa Worcestershire
Around Droitwich Spa Worcestershire
The weekend has come around again, unfortunately the weather forcast is not as good as last weekends adventure up Black Hill at least not for Saturday. So went for a walk around the town of Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire not far from me in Pershore. (more…)
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Cityscape Photography
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~ Gradient Sun ~ Gradients are a mathematical description that highlights the places of greatest physical change in space. A gradient filter, in turn, enhances places of contrast, making them all the more obviously different, a useful tool when adjusting photos. Scientists use gradient filters to enhance contrast, using them to accentuate fine structures that might otherwise be lost in the background noise. On the sun, for example, scientists wish to study a phenomenon known as coronal loops, which are giant arcs of solar material constrained to travel along that particular path by the magnetic fields in the sun's atmosphere. Observations of the loops, which can be more or less tangled and complex during different phases of the sun's 11-year activity cycle, can help researchers understand what's happening with the sun's complex magnetic fields, fields that can also power great eruptions on the sun such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections. The images here show an unfiltered image from the sun next to one that has been processed using a gradient filter. Note how the coronal loops are sharp and defined, making them all the more easy to study. On the other hand, gradients also make great art. Watch the movie to see how the sharp loops on the sun next to the more fuzzy areas in the lower solar atmosphere provide a dazzling show. Via: NASA
So once in awhile I get a little bored with what I'm viewing through my camera's lens so I'll switch things up a little. Instagram appears to have taken the phone photographer world by storm by giving users a million and one ways to spice up their simple, daily pics. Now I don't own an iPhone, so I cheaped out. An EXTREMELY affordable and fun way to make interesting photos is to use your sunglasses as a lens filter. The larger styles that are out nowadays (including aviators, of course) tend to have a gradient (gradual fade) to them and have some interesting hues. The ones I used for this photo have a purple to almost green gradient and I'm really digging the way this photo came out. I'll post some photos of trees using the same technique soon!!
I should add that I haven't Photoshopped this picture in any way! Since I use a Digital SLR I believe that what I wish to attain in a photograph is so easily aquired during a shoot because my camera is so easily manipulated!