Darren Greene: the saltee gannets
I have some time of work in a few weeks time. If the weather is favourable I will return to the Saltee Islands where this shot was taken last year. If you've never been, I highly recommend it.
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I have some time of work in a few weeks time. If the weather is favourable I will return to the Saltee Islands where this shot was taken last year. If you've never been, I highly recommend it.
Pana-Vision: Guagán Barra
The oft-photographed little church at Guagán Barra a few miles on from Béal Atha an Ghaorthaidh. This is the starting point of the River Lee which runs all the way to Cork City.
The church here is tiny with just enough room for one person to go up the aisle. I played the uilleann pipes at a wedding here when I was barely a teenager for my neighbour who was teaching me the violin at the time. Brave move (for her!) but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I still play some of the tunes I learned for that wedding to this day. I no longer play the violin though!
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Kyle Tunney Photography: Channels and calculations in photoshop
Hey guys,
I hope everybody’s keeping well. I’ve been playing with channels, calculations and layers a lot the past while. So I thought I’d write up a quick photoshop tutorial that you can use on your photos & photography. It’s well overdue as it has been a long time since my last tutorial. This tutorial works best when there is a fairly solid colour in the background!
OK, so below is the before and after of this quick tutorial. This can be used on many different types of photographs with brilliant results. Without further ado, we’ll get cracking on the tutorial. If you’re already pretty handy with photoshop you can skip through to the conclusion for a fast tutorial! You can also download the source/.psd file here or have a quick look at the results.
Choose one of your own photo’s or you can download my photo. Once you have a photo, bring it into photoshop and we can get started
Step 1
Open the Channels palette by choosing Window>Channels from the main menu
(by default it’s the tab right beside the Layers palette).
If you click on each channel, you can see the detail on each. For this particular photo, the green channel is best for what we want. Click on the top channel(RGB) to return to the original view and see all layers.
Step 2
Choose Image/Calculations from the main menu. Here we shall choose the green channel, blending mode of overlay and make sure that result is set to New Channel.
You will notice the photo has changed to black & white and there’s a new channel selected.
Step 3
While your new channel ‘Alpha 1′ is still selected we shall copy this layer. Press ‘Ctrl + a‘ to select all, now press ‘Ctrl + c‘ to copy. Click on the top channel RGB to restore the original shot. Now click the Layers tab and paste your layer ‘Ctrl + v‘. You should have something that looks like this:
Step 4
All that is left is to change the blending mode of this layer to overlay.
That’s it, job done.
Conclusion
Open your image in photoshop
Go to your channels palette
Choose which channel is best for this image (R/G/B)
Choose Image/Calculations from the main menu
Pick your channel, change blending to overlay and change result to new channel
Copy that channel over to your layers palette
Change the blending mode to overlay
Finishito – Job well done!!
Once you’re happy with that you can start adding little adjustment layers with curves/levels and they will make a big difference to the end result as you can see with some of the following shots.
Let me know what you thought of the tutorial. Also feel free to pop a link to one of your photos you tried this out on below!!
Some Results
Thanks for stopping by!
Gingerpixel: Wedding Photography: Down The Aisle
I have a few thoughts I want to share about photographing weddings. I’ve done seven now, with another three to come this summer. I’m happy to do about one a month because they are exhausting on every level. Fun and exciting and a huge buzz, but they drain me of every ounce of creativity, so I like to give myself time in between to recharge. To those who can shoot one a week, I tip my hat.
Take this shot for example, it was taken at a brilliant wedding I got to shoot in Ballybeg House (fast becoming a favourite venue for me) at the end of May and the ceremony took place outside where the sun was shining down from a deep blue sky. This section of the day is probably the most intense, there are so many shots you have to get and you almost need to be in a few places at once. Either that or have some kind of telepathy to know exactly what’s coming next and so where you need to be to catch the best angle. In this wedding, instead of the traditional walk down the aisle, the bride and her father walked through the old house down a narrow dark hallway and out into the blazing sunshine. As it’s happening here’s a sample of how my mind is whirring:
OK, they’re getting ready to start walking, will I expose for her dress or do I want to try something different? Maybe if her dress was backlit (the light coming through the lace could look beautiful) and if she and her father are silhouetted against the light from the doorway ahead of them, yea I can see it in my head…how do I expose for that!? OK, I need silhouette but not completely blacked out, so underexpose the dress but not too much and click, click, click because they’re walking and the hallway’s not that long and I need to be ready to quickly change exposure when we hit that sunlight, so I’m clicking and crouching and walking and trying not to step on the dress and spinning the shutter and some of it is probably blurry but maybe that’s ok. And we’re out.
All that in a matter of seconds and the whole day is kind of like that.
And I love these two photos, I know the second one’s got movement in it (yea, yea, I mean it’s blurry) but I kind of like that and it’s what I pictured in my head in those seconds beforehand and that makes me feel good. Happy accidents are wonderful but to actually get a shot you pictured…there’s something satisfying about that. But what would have happened if it hadn’t worked? I couldn’t ask them for a redo, not to mention that when we did get out into the sunlight I was still looking, clicking and walking so I tripped on the door jam and only just stopped myself from tumbling all the way down a flight of concrete steps taking the bride and her father out like skittles and landing in a tangled heap at the groom’s feet. Thankfully I somehow managed to stay upright and although my heart was pounding the ceremony was only just beginning so I had to keep shooting. And therein lies the rush and the stress of shooting weddings, they wreak havoc on the faint of heart…and the clumsy.
