Archive for February, 2009

Faking a Tilt-and-Shift Effect in Photoshop

Faking a Tilt-and-Shift Effect in Photoshop

This is a really effective and deceptively simple process that is most commonly used to create a distortion of scale – makes any shot with buildings and people in look like a model village! But it’s also really effective for creating a [..]

Copyright…Protection?

Copyright…Protection?

I’ve been thinking today about how us photographers can protect our ideas and our work. The internet although a great place to share and promote our work is not hugely secure. Any image posted to the internet can be stolen without your [..]

Half Nekkid Thursdays

Half Nekkid Thursdays

Well it’s time to promote another flickr group again. This time its the turn of Half Nekkid Thursdays. I’ve chosen this group purely on the basis that it was all started by a good flickr contact of mine (le crustydolphin) whom I [..]

Flash Light: Direction Equals Mood!

Flash Light: Direction Equals Mood!

I thought I’d have a very quick play around today, with my Speedlite 580EXII flash handheld (fired by the Canon ST-E2 IR transmitter – which, of course, you won’t need if you’ve got a Nikon with it’s fancypants built in flash control [..]

Attack of the Clones

Attack of the Clones

Haven’t you always wanted to be in two places at once. I know its something I’d find useful. Well here is a quick and dirty method to achieve just that using photoshop. There are other methods to achieve this effect, but this [..]

How Did You Learn?

How Did You Learn?

Today I want to explore how you all learnt to use your camera and take good photographs. Photography in lots of ways is as much a science as it is an art form. Using a camera correctly and consistently to get great [..]

Olympus E-30 Launched

Olympus E-30 Launched

Here at PhotographyWired we could probably be justly accused of having a biased Canon/Nikon slant on the world of digital photography.   But we realise not everyone sees the world in such black and white terms.  Some of you out there do [..]

Anthony Kurtz: The World Of Tomorrow

Anthony Kurtz: The World Of Tomorrow

Sorry I haven’t had much time to come up with anything to post today. I did spend some time surfing the net earlier for some inspiration but rather than find anything to write about I did find a photographer who’s work I [..]

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