Recent Posts Tagged With 'How-To'

• DIY Zoom Lens for Your Camera Phone

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 01:10 in DIY, How-To, binoculars, zoom lens, camera phone photos

  One of the Christmas gifts to the family was a pair of binoculars for each of us. We intend to use them on our trips to Paynes Prairie and other nature spots around town. We took them to a recent trip to the park to look at the birds and squirrels in...

• From a Parking Lot to the Wild Blue Yonder

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 02:26 in photoshop, How-To, tips and tricks, moon, sky, crop, levels, adjustment layers, camera phone photos, reduce noise

  Yesterday, I posted a shot of the moon rising into a deep blue evening sky. It was reminiscent of some NASA photos I’ve seen where the blue sky turns to interstellar black. Now I’m here to tell you that what I posted was only part of the ...

• Mood-Altering Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 08:57 in photoshop, How-To, tips and tricks, curves, saturation, paynes prairie, adjustment layers, camera phone photos

  Adjusting levels, saturation and other settings in Photoshop can have a dramatic effect on the mood of an image. Take the image below, for example. What you see is a standard landscape photo of Paynes Prairie in late fall. The lush greenery is becomi...

• Silence the Noise in High-Compression Photos

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 10:51 in photoshop, How-To, tips and tricks, negative, camera phone photos, photoshop filters, layers magazine, reduce noise

  High file compression is a given in the field camera phone photography, but I had not discovered a way to counter this efficiently, instead trying to manually reduce it through lighting and shot angles. Well thanks to the tutorial, “Reduce Nois...

• Six Tips for Taking Better Camera Phone Photos at Night

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 20:18 in tips, photoshop, How-To, dark, tips and tricks, night photography, low-light, camera phone photos, casio g'zone type-v

  I’m fairly certain that the thought of shooting photos at night is rarely given consideration by the average photographer, who rightfully expects a bad exposure. I am supremely confident, however, that the idea of shooting at night with a camer...

• Negative Week, Day 3: Blending Negative Images in Ten Easy Steps

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 03:00 in How-To, tips and tricks, negative, layers, blending modes, camera phone photos, negative week

  Yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday featured an abstract negative image created with two other images, both negative to fit the theme. This technique is nothing new on this blog, but it’s fun and a great way to produce something completely dif...

• Blending Modes are Freakin’ Awesome

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 02:00 in photoshop, How-To, cs2, abstract, tips and tricks, revealed, wordless wednesday, layers, opacity, blending modes, camera phone photos, kid's-eye view

  First, thank you to all of my visitors yesterday, especially those of you who commented. I’m enjoying posting an abstract image followed up by a how-to post, so if you want to be sure not to miss anything, please subscribe to my RSS feed (reall...

• How to Combine Two Average Photos into One Spectacular Photo

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 23:03 in photoshop, How-To, underground, tips and tricks, photo editing, layers, merge, tunnel, opacity, camera phone photos, bomb shelter, shands

  Yesterday was my 21st Wordless Wednesday post and, in my humble opinion, the best one to date. In this post I’ll answer the big question of how I did it. First, a bit of back story: I had a doctor’s appointment to get my back evaluated to...

• How to Shoot Camera Phone Photos at a Live Concert

  Posted on Sunday April 20th, 2008 at 22:25 in How-To, arena, live music, concert, tips and tricks, rush, neil peart, geddy lee, alex lifeson, camera phone photos, variable lighting

  Now for something completely different. Last Thursday night, I was sitting in the 7th row for a Rush concert. I have been a fan of Rush for about 22 years now and I’ve seen them maybe five times, possibly six. Regardless, I’ve never been...

• Six Tips for Better Camera Phone Photos

  Posted on Tuesday January 8th, 2008 at 15:20 in How-To, photography tips, tips and tricks, camera phone photos, better quality

  Try thinking about the camera phone as a “real” camera and you’ll soon find that there’s much more to it than convenience. With a little experimenting, you can learn to work around the limitations of a camera phone and start p...