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The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography
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The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography

by Harold Davis
July 2013
Beginner
192 pages
5h 19m
English
Peachpit Press
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Using LAB inversions

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To make this image I used a macro lens, and shot twenty-one exposures of a wet spider web in the early morning sun. Most were underexposed to bring out the color saturation and to let the background go dark. I combined the exposures as layers in Photoshop using a variety of blending modes, and was pleased to see that the result was essentially an abstraction.

105mm macro lens, twenty-one exposures, each exposure at 1/3200 of a second, f/3.5 and ISO 200, tripod mounted; exposures combined in Photoshop.

Work in as wide a gamut as you can, for as long as you can.

Harold Davis

The colors you see in a photo, or on display in a ...

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