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Category: Creating Photo Stories

Most photographers have the goal of Story Telling using still images and video. Experience with the wildlife can give you ideas and foreknowledge.

Posted onJune 22, 2017March 29, 2020African Wildlife

Photographing Elephants: 10 Ways to be Creative with Elephants

Elephants are frequently our photo subjects while on safari.  Their size, shape, intelligence, and trunk are just a few things that make them great subjects and very interesting.  There are many opportunities for unique, beautiful, and descriptive images of elephants.

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Posted onNovember 23, 2016April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Using the Lightroom Dehaze tool on Safari Images

Adobe has released a new version of Lightroom CC which contains a new adjustment tool: The DeHaze slider.  It is found in the FX menu of the Development module (way down toward the bottom of the list). I see how it works on a safari photo

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Posted onJune 26, 2016April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Make a Dynamic Wildlife Portrait with Adobe Photoshop

A South Africa photo safari will be full of opportunities to photograph animals at close distances. These images have all the details and interesting poses found in modern (human) portraits. You can apply current portrait processing techniques to your wildlife portraits.

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Posted onOctober 13, 2015April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Using the Shadows / Highlights Command in Photoshop to add Contrast to an image

Adding contrast to an image is a great way to boost the impact of the image, especially African images shot in full sun and those where the animal is camouflaged.

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Posted onMay 11, 2015April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Post Processing Creativity: 1 Photo Presented 3 Ways

Digital photography and its post processing tools offer so many creative possibilities for making a final presentation of our RAW files.   Here I demonstrate the same photo presented 3 different ways mostly using Adobe Lightroom / Camera Raw and a little bit of Photoshop.

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Posted onOctober 11, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Correcting a Leopard Image in Lightroom

Taking a Good Photo to the Next Level using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop using curves and color correction to make the image even better.

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Posted onAugust 1, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Using the Curves Tool in Lightroom

This tutorial explains how to use the Tone Curve tool in Adobe’s Lightroom 4 to adjust the contrast in an image and use the channel curves to further correct tone and color.

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Posted onJuly 8, 2014April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Lightroom Color Correction: Beyond White Balance

The morning light on this nyala  is a nice touch, but the image could use a bit more contrast and the warm light is making all the colors in the image a bit off.  The White Balance tool in Lightroom will help, but using a few more advanced tools will really make this image look great.

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Posted onOctober 8, 2013April 1, 2020Creating Photo Stories

Boosting Color using Split Toning in Lightroom

I discuss how to use the Split Toning tool to boost the color of a image which seems a bit flat.

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Posted onMay 21, 2013April 1, 2020African Wildlife

Enhancing Wildlife Eyes

In this tutorial I show you how to correct “red eye” in wildlife image and then enhance the eyes to be more intense.

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