Digital Brushes | Ones and Zeros can enhance | Beauty in the lens

A 1.5hour Photoshop editing session compressed into a three minute time-lapse.

Shot with my Panasonic GF1, with 20mm pancake lens. Triggered my remote flash with my Opus trigger.

This photo and many others can be seen in my flickr stream here:

http://flickr.com/kgartner/

If anyone has any comments or questions, i’d love to hear them!

The Lens Flares are back! | But the same rules apply… | Use them sparingly

A 30 minute Photoshop editing session compressed into a 2:16 Time-lapse.

I shot this with my Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm pancake lens. The USS Enterprise is an old christmas ornament that’s been in the family for a long time

This photo and many others can be seen in my flickr stream here:

http://flickr.com/kgartner/

If anyone has any comments or questions, i’d love to hear them!

No repetition | To clone is not to copy | Use it gracefully

In this quick tutorial, we take a look at how to effectively use the clone stamp tool in photoshop.

A 1.5 hour photoshop session compressed into a 3:50 time-lapse. I went to a friend’s place on the weekend, where he keeps his drums. We wanted to take some cool shots, so we set them up in the back part of their yard, and started shooting.

I shot this shot with my Panasonic GF1 with a Fisheye adapter screwed onto it. The fisheye adapter is really cheap, so there’s lots of chromatic aberrations on the edge, but I kind of like the way it messes up the image a bit.

This photo and many of my others can be found in my flickr stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/kgartner/

Anyways, enjoy!

If anyone has any comments or questions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!

A 1.5 hour photoshop session compressed into a 3:50 time-lapse. At one of Sarah’s recent soccer games, there was a beautiful double rainbow just beside the field where she was playing. I wanted to get a really nice shot of it, but I only had my LX3 and not my AE-1 with my fisheye lens…

So, I thought this would be a good a time as any to get into the world of HDR Panoramas! Without a tripod, I set my LX3 to take bracketed exposures of as much of the surrounding area as I could. I took 27 shots in total, 9 shots with 3 exposures each. These were then all dumped into a great free panorama tool called Hugin. There’s a few other tools out there to do the same thing like AutoPano Pro, but Hugin seems to allow for more manual control when things go awry when stitching together your images.

In the image above, you can mouse over it to see how the original images get distorted inside of Hugin to stitch together.

Once the image was stitched together, it was exported as an HDR .exr file and brought into Photoshop where the magic happens.

The clouds that day were pretty dull, as the sunset was actually happening to the west, and this was being shot towards the east. The drab sky called for a sky replacement! That along with a bunch of other colour tweaks and you’ve got the final result!

If anyone has any comments or questions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!