12 Things to do with your Digital Camera
August 2, 2010 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Featured Tips, Featured Using Your Photos
As digital cameras get smaller and travel with us everywhere there are a myriad of different uses and photographs we can take to make life easier for us. These are just some of the tips we have used our cameras for.
The Top 5 Posing and Directing Photo Tips
October 22, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Portrait Photography
In this video from Erin Manning you will learn the tips that professionals use to get posed, but natural looking shots. You have probably felt it yourself, what do I do with my hands? I feel awkward? etc. Most people are uncomfortable in front of a camera, so Read more
Tips for shooting sports photos like the Pro’s
October 22, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Action Photography, Featured Tips, Photography Tips
Sports photography is a highly-specialised and expensive field, but armed with a few basics – and a degree of patience – most photographers can capture a magic moment without breaking the bank balance.
The surfer tries to stay near the breaking part of the wave, rather than well out in front of it.
Easy tips to shoot great group photos
October 7, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Home Highlights, Photography Tips, Portrait Photography
We’ve all seen them, and we’ve all probably taken one or more of them — the group photograph that didn’t quite work.
The kids look great; all happy, smiling faces.
But Grannie looks as if her favourite pet just died, and Uncle Joe … well, he is in the shot, but the bottom of his face has become lost behind Aunty Flo’s healthy crop of hair. Read more
How to Photograph a Lightning Strike
August 5, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Featured Tips, Landscape Photography, Photography Tips
By guest contributor Damian Riches
photo by manumohan.com
In the following explanation I will try to cover the basic photography technique you’ll need to take good lightning pictures. You will very quickly notice that shooting light is not at all that difficult technically speaking but it takes time, patience and also determination.
Equipment Protection
Taking lightning pictures is exciting but you need to remember that you paid money for your photography equipment so the last thing you want is to have it ruined. Read more
Silhouette Photography made easy
August 5, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Holiday Photography, Landscape Photography, Photography Tips
Capturing that brilliant silhouette of a fisherman at sunrise, or a boat on the water against the backdrop of a setting sun, is all about timing — and a few basic rules. Read more
How to Remove the Date Stamp from Your Images – Photoshop
July 14, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Featured Tips, Photo Editing Tips, Using Your Photos
By guest contributor Lisa Gaudron
You’ve just taken a gorgeous snap and think that is worthy a framing and hanging on the wall but…… the ugly date stamp has ruined it! We can show you how to remove it and save your beautiful photo.
First open your image in Photoshop
The tool that you will use to remove the date stamp is the Patch Tool. You’ll find this tool under the Healing Tool in your toolbox, to access it just click and hold the healing tool until a pop out menu appears showing the patch tool, release click once you have the patch tool highlighted.
You need to trace around the date stamp in order to select this area to be corrected.
Make sure you have selected 'source' below your drop down menus
Once you’ve done this you can drag the selection to anywhere on your image to resample a new area for the patch tool to “patch” over the date stamp. But first you will need to feather the selection so that you are left with no hard contrasting outlines, this will help with blending.
From 'select' drop down menu choose 'feather'
To feather the selection, click on “select” in the top tool bar and click “Feather” for the submenu. The “feather” dialog box will appear, enter a value of around “25”, this will determine how much the edges on the new patch area will blur or feather.
Change feather radius to 25
Now it is a matter of dragging your selection to the desired area for resampling. Make sure you use and area that is of similar pattern and colouring to the area under the date stamp. To do this just drag the selection by left click and hold and then simply release over the area that you want to sample.
Hold your left mouse button down and drag your selection to sample an area
Now check out the great job that the patch tool has done! No more date stamp!
Date gone and picture improved and ready for printing
Lisa works in the Eastmon Lismore store and often encounters customers looking for simple Photoshop techniques to improve or fix their photos. This is the first of Lisa’s tips for Photoshop.
Shooting Great Pictures at Home
July 14, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Landscape Photography, Macro Photography, Photography Tips
By guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)
The view from the Tamworth lookout is spectacular but like most scenic views, once you’ve seen it … unless it’s the start of the day and a dense fog is just clearing and you catch the morning flight from Sydney on its final approach. This was shot on my Canon 50D EOS in AV mode, mounted on a Slik Pro500DX tripod at f5.6, 1/1000sec and 100 ISO with the 18-200mm lens set to 135mm and picture style on landscape.
I’ve travelled a fair portion of Australia, with only Tasmania and the tropical north of Qld still escaping my lens and it would be a reasonable assumption that whilst all of those kilometres enveloped me in their protection from all things “back home”, they also gave me opportunities to take some spectacular photographs. Read more
Outdoor Photography Opportunities
June 5, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Beginners Tips, Featured Tips, Macro Photography, Photography Tips
From guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)
This is Peter’s second contribution and you can read more about him here and on facebook. Peter is a customer of the Eastmon Tamworth store.
Sometimes, fortune takes over from planning and a shot just appears before you. At times like these, you hope all of the workshops and courses and advice from others has sunk in and the choices you make are good ones.
Photography is about moments held in your viewfinder so that others can wish they were there and a bit like fishing, we can all talk of the one that got away. Read more
Be in Charge of the Situation
May 28, 2009 by Eastmon Admin
Filed under Featured Tips, Home Highlights, Photography Tips
Pushing yourself to the front of the crowd can often get you into a good position. ~ Hanging Rock Picnic Races
This article is contributed by Peter Hunter OAM,ARPS,AFIAP, a member of the Lismore Camera Club
Many of the great photos taken by serious and professional photographers are good because they were “in charge of the situation”. What do we mean by this? In effect the photographer acted like a motion picture director where subjects and other things were arranged and organised. Read more
