by Daniel Gregory | Sep 16, 2020 | Creativity, Technique
Quick four-minute video on using black and white adjustment layers to edit color images in Photoshop. When they are thinking black and white, most people use the black and white adjustment layer in Photoshop. However, suppose you change the blend mode of that... by Daniel Gregory | Sep 10, 2020 | Technique
Some of the images from the American West have been surreal during the massive forest fires happening this summer. I have seen a few too many posts in social media talking about how those are fake images so I thought I would do a quick video to show how that happens.... 
by Daniel Gregory | Aug 26, 2020 | Printing, Technique
Noise is a result of how the digital sensor capture process deals with variables in light levels. The noise is caused by unwanted signal information on the camera’s sensor. Each sensor has a base level ISO and when the sensor needs to become “more sensitive” to...
by Daniel Gregory | Aug 25, 2020 | Creativity, Printing, Technique
One of my favorite ways to work on printing is to make a quick draft image and then hang that on the wall. Stand back and think about all the things that you want to change in the image. Then grab a sharpie pen and draw on the print all the things that you want to do... 
by Daniel Gregory | Mar 20, 2018 | Technique
Learning to print in color is about using a system of opposites to balance the photograph. This is the same process in the analog darkroom and in black and white printing. You add light to make it darker, subtract light to make it brighter and add the opposite color... by Daniel Gregory | Feb 27, 2018 | Technique
Color correction is one of the first steps in editing an photograph. When I am working with people, I get asked what makes something color correct? Does that mean the colors are real? True? Accurate? Pleasing? And, the answer is a little of all that. The big first...
