Alpha Photography Blog

Every image is bound to have something to correct - someone may want the bags under their eyes removed. There’s an annoying pole in the background, or power lines are interrupting a perfect sky.

All these things can be fixed with relative ease in Photoshop. Below are some simple steps.

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What can I say about Photoshop? It’s such a great program, but it really frustrates me at times also.

This software has infinite photo editing and graphic design possibilities, but like so many things, it is only easy once you know how.

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Every manufacturer installs its own colour balanced calibration settings onto their computers. These settings may, or may not be appropriate for photo editing. So, before you start editing photos, you might need to adjust your computer’s settings.

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Here are some intermediate concepts and techniques.

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Photography isn’t all technique and teaching the eye what to look for, it can also be about breaking the rules and having some fun.

There are so many different things you can do with a camera – it’s open to your imagination.

Here are a few of my favourites – I hope you have fun with them too.

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You’re probably wondering how I can write an entire post just on flash.  Well, there’s actually more to flash photography that many people realise.

Flash is generally over-used, and can ruin a photo more often than it saves the image.

On compact digital cameras, there is often no choice as to when the flash can be used, but if you do have this functionality, I encourage you to use it.

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Digital photography has been alive since the mid-1970s, with the first megapixel sensor emerging in 1986, developed by Kodak.  At a consumer level, 1994 saw the emergence of the first digital camera that sent images onto a computer via a serial cable.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Not surprisingly, the film versus digital debate emerged not long after this, and is still being argued today – quite passionately in some circles.

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Good composition is relatively easy to achieve, when you know and apply the fundamentals. 

It still takes quite a bit of practice for them to become second nature.  You know that you’re getting there when you actually don’t want to take a photo because you can’t get it just the way you want it!

Here is a little more detail on each element of composition:

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Know your equipment

It might sound obvious, but there is a language of photography, and it starts with the equipment you use. What does Tv mean? How is P different from Auto?

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