Tag: Photoshop

Lightroom 3 versus Lightroom 4

Lightroom 3 versus Lightroom 4, a photo by Tukay Canuck on Flickr. I just installed Lightrrom 4, and figured I’d give it a quick test. I found a photo that I took last year that was quite underexposed, to see what I can do with it. Right off the bat, when I made the process

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Posted: March 18, 2012 by tukay

Photo Editing Done Cheap

Most websites and magazines will talk about Photoshop as being the tool to edit photographs. Unfortunately Photoshop costs US$699, which is out of reach for most people. Adobe does have Photoshop Elements, which is a much less expensive, yet very capable scaled down version of Photoshop. Personally I use Gimp, which is an open source

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Tags: Gimp | Photo Editing | Photoshop

Posted: June 30, 2009 by tukay

High Speed Photography Tutorial – Wine Glass

August 12, 2019

By user

Welcome to this quick tutorial on laser triggering with Pluto trigger. Today I was playing around with freeze motion photography, and thought it would be cool to share with you what I tried to get this type of shot. It’s my first time doing this shot this way, and I certainly would improve the process

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Macro Lenses versus Extension Tubes

July 7, 2019

By user

Macro photography can be fun. It can also be expensive if you are starting out. This article will try to let you answer the question: Are macro lenses worth it, or can I get decent macro photos using extension tubes and an inexpensive lens? If you don’t know what macro photography is (confusingly sometimes also

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Contemplation – How to get this shot

August 8, 2012

By tukay

Contemplation, a photo by Tukay Canuck on Flickr. Here’s how I got this shot. I took an Elinchrom D-Lite 4 with a big beauty dish and gold reflector, put it on a boom arm on a C-stand, and had it camera right. It was quite a distance from the model, so I cranked it to

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