Pierre Steenberg

Flare

January 06, 2019 • Leave a Comment

I generally hate flare. To remove flare (which content aware cannot fix) you can create a new layer and set the blend mode to color. Use the color picker to pic a color right next to the flare and then paint over the flare. You may need to brighter or darken the spot when finished. Needless to say, I almost always remove flare. Flare is caused by t...

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The sun as the image

December 30, 2018 • Leave a Comment

When I was still growing up the adults always used to tell me that you shoot with the sun behind your back. Everytime the family or other groups of people wanted a photo taken they would tell the "photographer" to stand with the sun behind him or her. I don't know for how long I followed their advice but I do know that I no longer do. In fact, I ju...

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Foreground as the image

December 23, 2018 • Leave a Comment

You often hear me say that depth is what makes good landscape images. To create good depth we need a strong foreground, a middle-ground, and a background that pulls the viewer into the image. Here is my example? The foreground in this image is very strong. The log has a lot of character. It is also large in size. In fact, it takes up about 50% o...

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Simplicity with wonder

December 16, 2018 • Leave a Comment

Sossusvlei is one of the most photographed landscape hotspots in Southern Africa. This place is the home of some of the best desert landscape images around. On the one hand, this is a good thing because you expect to get good images when you go there and you will not be disappointed. On the other hand, does it make you a good photographer if your a...

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Slot Canyons

December 09, 2018 • Leave a Comment

Slot canyons make wonderful photographs. Those near Page, Arizona, particularly Upper and Lower canyons, are almost useless to photographers are there are just too many people in the way. Even if you pay extra for the "photographic tour" they still herd you through in a hurry. This time I opted for the lesser known Canyon X. I was hoping for fewer...

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Putting it all together

December 02, 2018 • Leave a Comment

I visited Page, Arizona recently and as you can expect I did a lot of photography. There were masses of people. I counted well over 300 cars at Horseshoe Bend. Trying to photograph when there are well more than 300 people in your way can be a challenge. People just don't care about us photographers. They will stand right in front of your camera as...

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Vertical panorama photography

November 25, 2018 • Leave a Comment

Most panorama landscape photographs are horizontal panoramas. We typically turn the camera vertically and then shoot a sequence of images while we pan horizontally. We do this to increase not just the width of the image but also the height. It gives us more resolution which means we can print larger. Sometimes the whole point of a panorama is to be...

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A special day

November 18, 2018 • Leave a Comment

A wedding is a special day! As a photographer, I have had many wedding shoots over the years. Many of these days were very special indeed: I have had cameras break just at the wrong moment (if there is a right moment when you are the wedding photographer) I have run out of film at the wrong time and had to load the next film in a flash (yes, I...

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Photographing the Icons

November 11, 2018 • Leave a Comment

I have written about iconic locations and those trophy images that we all want before. The message has consistently been to get the iconic image but to also do your best to get something different. How do you get something different from images that have been shot to death? Here are a few tips: Shoot the icon but from a different vantage point...

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Post-Processing

November 04, 2018 • Leave a Comment

Let's face it if you want to be a good photographer you have to be a good post-processor. This does not mean that you have to master PhotoShop. There are other tools available, but you have to choose your tools and use them well. Serious photographers shoot raw. JPGs are 8-bit files and they show terribly once you start pushing too far in post-proc...

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