(scroll down if you just want the video) Colour often becomes the subject. It was colour that caught my eye—the light behind the trees. With the 55–200 mm lens on, the tree was some way off, which is good; I love being able to isolate just one tree from a crowd. Behind that particular tree Read More
ICM creations in the woods – when the trees, the breeze and the light co-collaborate
Thought I’d start journalling publicly my creative ramblings on the off chance they help you on your creative journey… The video is below on how to get creative with ICM and trees… So… went to the Forest this morning – grey flat light — nearly didn’t take the camera at all but thankfully hung it Read More
Getting Started with iPhone ICM: What’s Really Going On?
Welcome to week one of exploring iPhone Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and multiple exposure blends. When you get started creating ICM with your iPhone — especially using an app like Slow Shutter Cam — you might notice something:the blur isn’t quite the same as what you get with a regular camera. It’s probably most noticeable Read More
Get Started with ICM photography here…
If you’re completely new to it — welcome to the wonderful creative world of intentional camera movement (and if you’ve already got started – thanks for joining me too, so much wonderful stuff to share with you!!) This is a place where movement and creativity come together to transform ordinary scenes into vibrant, painterly expressions Read More
Blending Using Analogous Colours
Analogous colours are basically colours next to each other on the colour wheel. If you’re not sure where to find the colour wheel – check out Adobe’s colour wheel (click here). The way I understood it best was this – analogous colours are like friends that share the same traits… blending naturally when put together… Read More
Where to start?
Where do I start? That’s a question several folks have asked me this week… How to Start… Without Photoshop I would say… Start in your body and mind… FEEL. And I say “feel” for a reason. When I first started, I spent so much time focusing on being technical—thinking about composition, light, shadows, style… but Read More
Groups – Why Groups are SO powerful…
Groups are so much more than just a way of keeping your layers tidy in Photoshop. When you group layers together they now ACT TOGETHER – so if you group two images together they now move together are resized together with the transform tool and so on… You could apply an adjustment layer to the Read More
High Pass Filters
High pass filters grab hold of the sharpness already in the image and sharpen it… Imagine you’ve got a picture of a street in the City, it’ll grab all the edges of the buildings and any other shape edges and sharpen them but leave the rest… Whereas a smart sharpen sharpens everything. I love to Read More
What is a Stamp Layer in Photoshop and how to create one…
What is a stamp layer and why use it… Stamp layers are a gathering together of all the information on all the layers currently visible (eyeball turned on) – basically you’re merging all the layers without flattening them into one… you end up with the merged layer but all the layers that formed it remain Read More
