Night time photography

To achieve these effects I did the following simple steps.

- Placed camera on tripod and pointed at the moon.

- Set the shutter speed to 4 seconds with an aperture of F5.6

- Flash ON

- Took the photograph.

- Enhanced it in photoshop using only levels.

and here's the finished result!!

How to create flame photography with smoke - Photography Tutorial

Smoke photography is something I love doing, today I took a different spin on it and using the simple set up you can see here created some amazing shots.

After opening the photographs in photoshop I cropped them appropriately and used levels to completely darken the background. Ensuring I used the red channel to lighten the flame.

I then lightened the blue channel slightly in curves, and improved the contrast overall as a photo.

Here's one of the original images. 

And heres the results..

Photography tutorial - Macro photography

Shooting in macro is a great way to achieve nice shots of things like flowers, insects and nature. However if like myself, you don't fancy shelling out £600 on a macro lens you can still shoot good macro photography.

There are two different types of macro photography:
- Macro photography
- Close up photography

Macro photography is where you are so close up to something, you can't tell what it is. All you see is an array of colours and textures.

Close up photography is where you can still see the whole of the subject, just in really nice detail, this is my favourite way to shoot macro.

Make sure your camera is on "Macro" setting (this is normally a picture of a flower)
Ensure there is enough light
Zoom about half way in
Get as close to the subject as you can while still being in focus and shoot

Thats it!