Everything that was dark in the original photograph is now light, and everything that was light is now dark. This turns the Contrast Masklater into a negative. ![]() The layer will now become monochrome, as will everything below it ( for the moment). With the Contrast Masklayer selected use Image / Adjust / Desaturate. Don’t worry if you lose your adjustments, they’ll come back soon. If you have any existing Adjustment Layers( see Instant PhotoShop)then move the new Contrast Mask Layerabove them on the Layers Palette. On the Layers Palettehighlight the background layer and then select Layer / Duplicate Layer. It can also do both at once, ( as illustrated in this example) or just one or the other. It can be used to reign in burned-out highlights and also to open up shadows. Using a contrast mask is a lot like taken a patent cold medicine - it’s good for whatever ails you. I was able to bring down the very hot sky portion at the top of the frame to a manageable degree and to also open up the shadow areas, while still retaining saturated colour. The third image is the final one, corrected as well with a Contrast Mask. ( Please see my tutorial called Instant PhotoShopfor a photographer’s guide to Photoshop for beginners). The second is with standard contrast, brightness and colour adjustments done using Photoshop’s Levelsand Curves. The first is the raw scan ( done with an Imacon FleXtight). Original Scan Corrected with Levels and Curves Antelope Canyon is a place of extremes of light, and while capturing it on film is always a joy, it’s a real challenge as well. The challenge of this photograph is the combination of a huge dynamic range together with ultra-saturated colour. While I have used numerous techniques to tame it, the masking technique detailed here is the one that produces the highest quality results. It also happens to be one of my most difficult to print images. This photograph was part of my Photo Techniquemagazine Featured Portfolioin the Fall of 2000 and I sold a large number of prints of it. The screen shot above shows a photograph taken in Antelope Canyonin 1998. It now forms part of my Photoshop repertoire and I have adapted it to my own way of working. I was excited to see this technique brought up-to-date because though its use in the wet darkroom was tedious at best, in the dry darkroom it’s simple, quick and even more effective. Whichever way you do it, you’ll now receive new Luminous Landscape Vodcasts, Videblog’s or whatever you want to call them, as soon as they’re placed online.The December, 2000 issue of PCPhotomagazine had an article by Richard Pahlcalled Digital Contrast Masking.It describes how to use a technique that experience darkroom workers have used for ages and has brought it into the Photoshop age. ITunesusers can simply go to Advancedtab in Itunes, select Subscribe to Podcast, and then paste the open window. You’ll be able to select from more than a half dozen different popular services. ![]() This same page allows you to subscribe to various specific podcatchers. (A free Quicktime download is available for Windowsand Macs). ![]() With the growing popularity of online video content we have now made it easier for visitors to this site to access these free streaming videos and to know when new ones become available.Īll of our free streaming videos, videoblogs as well as preview clips, are now listed on a single page, and may be played directly from that page. They are not done with the production quality and values of our professionally produced DVDs, but are designed to provide the type of content that is better suited to video rather than text presentation.įor quite a few years we have also been providing preview video clipsof selected content from current and past issues of The Video Journal. These brief videos are provided without charge. A series was produced with reports from Photokina,and more are on the way. These are short and informal online video presentations available as on-line video. These DVDs play on any computer system or desk top DVD player, anywhere in the world.ĭuring 2006 we also started publishing what some call Videoblogs. Each issue contains more than two hours of broadcast quality video content, consisting of interviews with famous photographers, travel segments and tutorials. You may also know that Chris Sanderson and I publish a DVD-video based publication called The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. Regular readers will be familiar with this site’s more than 3,000 pages of product reviews, tutorials, travel articles and photographs.
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