A popular request I get is asking how to clone yourself in Photoshop. Sometimes called a multiplicity shot. Named after the 1996 film starring Michael Keaton. In this video I show you a simple technique, using just a phone camera, to clone you, or someone else, in the same image. Practice makes perfect so go …
My latest video is a tutorial on how to create puddles in Photoshop. I show you two different techniques, one simple and one more complicated but more realistic. Adding puddles to street scenes etc. can add a mood or atmosphere to an image without the need for you to stand out in the rain. Get …
My latest video is a tutorial on how to create fog & mist in Photoshop. I very much like to try and get my shot “in camera” and therefore minimise my post production work to cropping etc. However, I also like to create “art” by using Photoshop to create fantastical images. Photoshop usually has several …
In this post I showed you a way to scan your film negatives. Now I show you how to do it more professionally with the Epson Perfection V600 Photo and Silverfast 9 from LSI. I have more detailed videos planned where I will go in to more advanced features of Silverfast. But, in the meantime, …
City Scape was an image that I had planned for many years. One drawback of living in the United Kingdom, is that we really don’t have the dramatic city skylines of North America. I had long envisaged a look that might evoke the likes of Gotham City or Bladerunner. But New York & Tokyo are …
When it comes to film photography there are a number of options available for scanning or digitising our negatives. Flatbed scanners such as the Epson V800 are amazing, but expensive. What can we do if we are on a budget? In this video I make a suggestion that uses a dSLR and about £40 worth …
Most people that take up film photography will make use of professional labs to begin with. Labs provide services for developing, scanning and printing your negatives. But once you have been photographing for a while, many like to begin to perform these actions for themselves. With regards to the scanning of your negatives, there are …
