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Nottingham and Notts Photographic Society
 
Video Tutorials
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Ken Payne Digital
Adobe Elements 10 Trainer Disc

Here is a newly produced tutorial disc for all of you that use
Adobe Elements to manipulate your images.

The disc has been produced by Ken Payne and costs £20 post free.

If you click on the logo on the left, you can view a few sample movies from the disc as a taster before deciding to buy.
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Lastolite School of Photography
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Photo Answers Videos

This website contains lots of photographic videos.

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Add a new sky in Photoshop
One thing that can really ruin your landscape photos is a bland or overexposed sky. Replacing it with something more fitting in Photoshop is the obvious answer, but it’s easy to run into trouble when faced with a complicated skyline.
Split Raw Tutorial.

Have you ever taken a RAW file that has a correctly exposed foreground but an over-exposed sky or background? To get round this problem you could have used an ND filter at the point of capture, but if you’ve only taken one shot of the scene it’s easy to overcome the problem providing you’ve shot in RAW format.
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D.I.Y Vaseline filter

Andrew James shows you how to create amazing painterly effects using a skylight filter and a pot of Vaseline. It's really easy and, believe it or not, Photoshop was not used in the making of this image! Watch the video to see how it's done.

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Control your White Balance

Fed up with colour casts in your shots? It’s likely you’ve got the incorrect white balance, but there’s no need to worry if you’ve shot in RAW, as it’s easy to put it right in the Adobe Camera RAW interface. RAW files save white balance information and there are three different ways to change it – you could use one of the nine white balance presets or use the temperature slider to adjust it manually.

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How to use a
10 Stop Neutral Density Filter

Neutral density filters can open up a world of creativity, freeing you to use long exposures to capture movement of people in a busy urban scene, or to blur water movement to give it a silky look. Or perhaps use a wide aperture for shallow depth of field.

NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS
The B+W 77mm 3.0/1000x (110) Neutral Density Filter
has a light intensity reduction of
ten f-stops, meaning that a 1/60 second exposure becomes a 15 second exposure with the filter in place. Because of its higher transmission in the red beyond 660 nm, this filter brings a warm tone to colour photographs
(If you reqire a different size))
When you reach the website, copy the B+W 77mm 3.0/1000x (110) Neutral Density Filter
paste it into the searchbox then change the 77mm to the filter size you require
The B+W 77mm 1.8/64x (106) Neutral Density Filter
reduces the light by six f-stops. With this filter and without changing the f-stop, a shutter speed of 1/60 s is changed to a full second, thus requiring the use of a tripod. Flowing water is rendered as flowing in the photo, and people moving in streets are dissolved in unsharpness or become invisible. Because of its higher transmission in the red beyond 660 nm, this filter brings a slightly warm tone to colour photographs
(If you reqire a different size))
When you reach the website, copy the B+W 77mm 1.8/64x (106) Neutral Density Filter
paste it into the searchbox then change the 77mm to the filter size you require

Derek Doar has prepared a chart for use with the Neutral Density Filters

1.Switch to manual exposure and set the camera to the exposure required without the filter in place

2. check the current shutter speed against the chart and change to the shutter speed to the one indicated by the chart

3. Fit the filter and capture the image.

4. Check the exposure of the captured image and modify the exposure to suit your needs.



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Why you should use
Aperture priority mode

Jon Adams, Editor of Digital Photo magazine, explains why aperture priority is the best camera setting for general photography. If you’re using Program (P) mode or Auto mode, then watch this video to find out why you should make the switch – your photography deserves it.


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Digital Infra-Red conversions

Video Tutorials on how to process images taken with digtally captured
Infra-Red images.

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Understanding the
Free Transform Command

There are two ways of transforming your shots. You can either go to Edit > Transform and choose from one of the six commands on offer, or alternatively, you can go to Edit > Free Transform. The advantage of using the latter is that it lets you control the Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort and Perspective commands all at the time.

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Create perfectly mounted prints

When you print an image you’re proud of, you want to present it professionally, the best way you can. With a few general tools and a special mount cutter, Michael Topham runs through what it takes to turn a huge piece of mount board into a perfectly cut window mount for your prints. Once this has been done the print will then be presented behind glass in a frame.


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Shoot fast moving insects
By Andrew James

Shooting fast moving insects in close-up is demonstrated in this video by Andrew James. By pre-focusing your macro lens to the closest position and gently rocking back and forth, it's possible to focus on small subjects without fiddling around with the focus ring. This takes away the need for a tripod so allows you to work much more quickly and shoot fast-moving subjects such as insects.

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HDR: The cheat's way
By Ben Turner

If you like the HDR look but don't want the hassle or expense, then this is for you. Here we're going to create a great HDR effect from one underexposed RAW file. We're going to do our editing in Elements 6, but you can use Photoshop.
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DLSR Skill Course
Module 5 - Movement

Photographing movement isn’t all about freezing subjects at high shutter speeds, it can also involve using blur as a creative tool. Movement can be captured by the two extremes of shutter speed and covers a wide range of subjects from landscape to sports.

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Add a Gradient in Photoshop
By Michael Topham

Graduated Neutral Density (ND) filters are really handy for when you need to reduce the brightness difference between the sky and the foreground. If you don’t own a Neutral Density graduated filter, you can create a very similar graduated effect using Photoshop’s Gradient tool.



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Straightening Horizons
By Michael Topham

There’s nothing more frustrating after a day’s shoot than returning home to find the horizons in your images aren’t straight! Wonky horizons can spoil the best of photographs, so it’s important to make sure yours are perfectly level - you can do this in a matter of seconds in photoshop.


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Shoot and Merge to HDR

HDR is a new technique that allows you to get more from very high contrast scenes. Discover everything you need in this detailed video and slideshow presented by Ben Turner.
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Sensor cleaning
Learn how to clean your camera's sensor without using fluids

Then click on this button to find where to buy the equipment


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Neutral Density Grey Grads
Learn how to use Neutral Density Grey Grads

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Get started in Landscapes
COMPOSITION

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Sharpen with the Unsharp Mask
By Michael Topham

Unsharp Mask is not at all like its name suggests but is in fact a Photoshop filter used in image manipulation to increase picture sharpness. It’s a great effect to know should you need to add sharpness to a particular area of an image, or make global changes.

This video tip, demonstrates how to add Unsharp Mask to a specific area and explores the three sliders associated with it – Threshold, Radius and Amount.

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Camera settings for landscapes
By Ben Turner

Learn how to setup your camera up for shooting landscapes.

Ben Turner, shows you how to take your camera off auto to increase your chances of getting fantastic, sharp and colourful landscape photos.

Also, discover how to use exposure compensation effectively to ensure your skies aren't bright white and burnt out.


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Create a Snowflake effect
in Photoshop
By Michael Topham

It may be many years since we’ve had a white Christmas, but don’t be too depressed as this video tip from Photoanswers, shows you how you can add the snowflake effect to your images in a matter of minutes. It’s a fun, quick and easy technique, so why not take a look back through your images from this year and dig out a few snowy scenes to add this effect onto.

This technique features creating new Layers, filling Layers with new contents and changing Blending Modes in your Layers Palette. Study the video carefully and you’ll soon be adding convincing snowflakes to your winter scenes.

This video tip is brought to you by Michael Topham, Technical Writer for Digital Photo and Photoanswers.



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Get started in Landscapes
Blur Water

Using a long exposure to blur the movement of water never fails to impress. In this final part of Practical Photography's popular Get Started in Landscapes series, you can learn how using Neutral Density filters can make for jaw dropping, blurred water effects in your landscape shots.

ND filters are relatively inexpensive, but can make a vast difference to your photography




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Retouching with the Patch Tool
By Michael Topham

The Patch Tool can be found in the Photoshop toolbox underneath the Healing Brush and it’s an extremely useful retouching tool. It works in a similar way to the Healing Brush and lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area inside the image. The Patch Tool matches the texture, lighting and shading of the sampled pixels, which in turn helps create seamless clones.

This video tip takes a close look at the Patch Tool and demonstrates how to set it up tool correctly in the options bar, before showing how effective it can be in removing unwanted distractions from your photographs.

The video is brought to you by Michael Topham, Technical Writer for Digital Photo and Photoanswers.