Well I did promise some tutorials each week, but first I need to test the system to see if it works the way I like and in a user friendly way for you. So here we go.

Technique Tuesday – 1

The Shot:
I am using an image that I Photographed one Autumn afternoon in the  Swan Valley region. This time of year there are plenty of these Autumn leaves around on the grape vines and what made this particluar leaf stand out to me was its vibrant colour caused by the a beautiful warm and soft backlight from the afternoon sun. This is a fantastic time to get the camera equipment out and start shooting. Today I am using the Canon 5D Mk2, with a 24-70mm F2.8 lens. This Lens gives me a sharp image with a non distracting back ground. To emphasize this effect, I need to get closer to my subject the leaf and I have opened the aperture to 4.0 as to not overdo the background blur and to get sharp detail on the entire leaf. (For more information see my tutorial on Apertures and F stops.) The other specs for this shot was a shutters speed of 1/80 and the ISO was set to 320. The image of course was shot in RAW so I can make smoother adjustment when editing and I set the White balance to shade as I did all the images I shot in that sequence so that colour corrections and adjustments will be consistent and easy.

Editing:
After selecting the image from my software of choice Photo mechanic (see www. photomechanic.com) I imported the image directly in Photoshop CS4(see adobe.com) and  because I have photographed it raw and have photoshop set this way it opens directly in the camera raw dialogue. this is where I want to give my images attention and this is an important step in my eveyrday workflow (For more information see my tutorial on My digital photography Workflow). I see here that the tones are fairly good and with only a touch of colour correction (from 6250 to 5150 in the Temperature slider), a slight increase (+30) using the vibrance slider and a tiny lift (+20) in the clarity for added sharpness and subtle contrast (+50) I can create a beautiful Autumn leaf with vibrant colours just as I saw it on the day.

But with a little more of an adjustment I can create a more vibrant and bold image. This time I have adjusted the fill light +10, increase the black to +45, Brightness to +60, Contrast to +100 and Clarity to +30. What has made this adjustment much easier is that I have already saved these adjustments as a preset so basically I can click one button to achieve this look. (To see how to save this preset see out tutorial on Using camera raw presets).

Today though I want to be a little more creative and artistic and create an image that is a little more unusual with a photograph of a leaf like this. I am after something with a little more emphasis on texture, shape and form. So to do this I have decided to convert this image to Black & White with a little bit of toning. Again to make it easy for me I click once on my saved raw preset which adjusts the Recovery +50, Fill light +25, Blacks +50, Brightness +70, Contrast +100 and Saturation -100. In Split toning I have adjusted the highlight hue to 29 and the saturation to 22, and the shadow hue to 56 and the saturation to 22. This gives the Black & white image the subtle toning that I was after.

The beauty about using these presets is the simplicity and the small amount of time it requires, and if the image needs any further adjustments I can very quickly make those adjustments. In this case I want to make the image a bit more dark and grungy. To do this this I can either increase the blacks to about +80 or I can adjust the temperature and tint which I did in the case to  2850 and +38. With all the images I have added a bit of Camera Vignette to darken the edges and draw attention to the centre of the image.

In summary I have created 3 or 4 different looking images in a matter of a few seconds in a non destructive manner from working with the raw files. The images can now be saved ready for further use. From here it is a matter of cropping or removing any unwanted elements in the picture, but for now I am happy with the way these images look.

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STEVE & BROOKE Wedding
Steve & Brooke were married on a beautiful warm afternoon in September. I have know Steve and his family for many years, and it was an absolute privilege to Photograph his Wedding. Friend and family of the Bride and Groom gathered at Rainsworth house in Middle Swan. A beautiful property backing onto the river. Steve’s Mum works there and was kindly granted the use of the property for the Wedding. Brooke and her bridesmaids were picked up in Vintage cars and taken to the ceremony where the guest anxiously waited. Brooke’s father escorted her down the red carpet isle where she exchanged vows with her sweetheart under the beautiful open sky. Photographs of the family bridal party and guest were taken on the grounds after the cermony, and as the cool air started to settle in and the sun began to go down the Bridal party travelled to the reception at the Swan Valley sporting club for a great night filled with emotion and entertainment. For all the images from this Wedding click on this link and let us know if you like. http://bit.ly/awpPKH

Here are some images that when I’m not a Professional Photographer and I am just photographing the things I see everyday. These are the images that are not Weddings or Portraits, but the images that I take of my family of my world.

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Jen & Erivan’s Wedding

Jen and Erivan have only been a couple for a small time, but as we found at the Wedding they are very in Love. Erivan is from Brazil and so a lot of his family was unable to attend. They organized a intimate event with their closest friends and family joining them for a Beach Wedding in Mandurah’s Secret Harbour. There was a few nervous moments, as thunderstorms were forecast, but they didn’t eventuate – the lighting was beautiful. The guests at the wedding followed the Bride and Groom as they walked from the house, down the trails and onto the beach for the commencement of the ceremony. Both Jen and Erivan were quite adventurous when it came to the Photo shoot and thoroughly had a good time with each other. We had lots of good, wet fun.
The beautiful sunset, created a dramatic backdrop for these guys, and we soaked up as much time as we could. After our beach session, the Bride and Groom made their way up the path and back to where the reception was held. We distanced ourselves from them as they walked up the path, to allow them to enjoy a quiet moment with each other together. But couldn’t resist taking a few natural and candid images of them. As the sun made its way down, we photographed Jen and Erivan, sharing some romantic and intimate moments together. All of their family and friends had left the beach to head back to the reception. These guys were really amazing and very natural. Our camera’s didn’t seem to bother them at all as they had a great time together. Both of them were happy to kick off their shoes and venture into the water a little, as the sun poured a beautiful glow over them. Here is a few images from the Wedding we photographed.

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Swan Athletic Aim High

Swan Athletic travelled to Gosnells Oval for the round 17 clash last Saturday 30^th July.

The game did not promise much nor in fact did the whole round with the top five being apparently set and rounds 17 and 18 being warm up games for the finals.

Swan Athletic did what was required in emphatic fashion with a demolition of Gosnells at once was the cauldron of the all powerful Sunday football league.

With Kingsley defeating Hamersley this has now opened the door for Swan Athletic to finish second on the ladder and host the all important qualifying final instead of playing away.

That scenario all comes down to the final qualifier this Saturday vs. West coast –Cowan at McDonald Street in a mouth watering clash of the old and the new.

The game vs. Gosnells was dominated by Brent McPherson with 11 straight goals in a display of power forward work rarely seen outside of A grade or WAAFL standard Football. Playing the lead up style of forward play that is demanded of class Centre half forwards, he did not allow himself to be drawn too far into the midfield, and his leads left him contesting generally around the 50 m mark. When in possession from this range his kicking silenced the vocal Gosnells supporters all around the ground with unerring accuracy.

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Final scores Swan Athletic 28 goals 6 behinds (174) Gosnells 5 goals 10 behinds (40)

Both the colts and reserves had solid wins that set the tone for the day

The 4ths and 5ths split the round with a win and a loss that rounded out a good weekend for the club

This weeks’ fixtures Swan Athletic vs. West Coast Cowan at McDonald Street Herne Hill

Colts 1-45 reserves 12-00 noon league at 2-30 p-m

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Swan Athletic in Major Upset

An injury hit Swan Athletic league team rose to the occasion to defeat Hamersley in
the WAAFL B grade qualifying final Saturday 14th August.

In front of the largest crowd of the year the under-strength but resilient young group
of Swan boys chased, harassed and outplayed a team that has been their nemesis in
the past few seasons.

With Premier defender Michael Saunders ruled out with a knee injury and the team
still smarting from the loss of Adam Erceg with a similar complaint the team was
brilliantly prepared by Coach Wood.
It started in the midfield with a plan to deny the visitors clearance and therefore
forward opportunities. To this end outstanding efforts from Bryan Hinkley Damon
Pavlinovich and Brendon O’Donnell were particularly evident. Their combination
with Kieran Hodge was of the highest order.

When the ball did make the Hamersley forward line Walsh, Gardner and Hall were
sublime in defense. Invariably their release was through Cameron Manual who
dominated his wing particularly in the air
Up forward McPherson, though not dominant was proving a handful for the
Hamersley defense. He drew several defenders and his contest allowed players of the
caliber of Wood, Whitehouse and Smith to swoop and score.

Although Swan Athletic led all day Hamersley challenged half way through the 3rd
quarter and the local boys had to tough it out to three quarter time.
Hamersley, not to be denied pressed again with the first three goals of the last quarter
and looked threatening. Goals to Murray Smith Brent McPherson and Chad Davey
late in the quarter saw the boys home safely
Final scores: Swan Athletic 16 goals 13 behinds (109) Hamersley 11 goals 10 behinds
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Best Players: Manus Walsh belied his years with a disciplined effort at the back
Kieran Hodge perhaps his best game for the club. Adam Whitehouse confident in his
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The colts and reserves were both eliminated to a desperate and aggressive Kingsley
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Technique Tuesday – Blending mode overlays

The shot:
This is an image I photographed of the Quarry in the Darlington and Boya area. On a cool Sunday afternoon as the Autumn sun was beginning its downward journey, our family ventured up to the quarry with a couple of friends to have a walk around. This manmade feature strikes quite a view and the steep rock faces stand around 40-50 metres tall. We pretty much stayed in the safety of the ground floor and watched as several experienced rock climbers scaled the walls.

I had with me my Canon 1D Mk4 with a 50 mm 1.8 Lens to take a couple of snapshots of the kids playing around, and as the sun started to set I began to notice interesting textures in the rock face and sky. I didn’t have my tripod with me, so to get a reasonably sharp image I pushed the ISO to 800 and set the Shutter to 1/60. I used an Aperture of f5 to allow a little depth in my texture. My WB was set to cloudy allowing the blues to come through nicely. My vision for it was a dark, grainy textured image so I underexposed by about 2 Stops.

While looking above me I saw some interesting colours and textures in the sky, so I decided to get some images for future textures and overlays I wanted to use on images. I used the same white balance to maintain the blue tone which emphasized the contrast in the red/orange. My ISO was lowered to 400, the shutter 1/80 and my aperture f5.6. I filled the framed with a couple of images for my collection.

Editing:
I selected the two images that I liked the most and opened them in Camera RAW. Usually I like to do a lot of the work on the raw image, but in this case all I did was add a vignette and slightly tweak the white balance. I did this as I knew I wanted to do a lot of isolated edits to the image, which I prefer doing in Photoshop with adjustment layers. The only other thing I did in camera raw was to make a third image out of the sky texture. This one was black and white with a little contrast and I added some grain to the raw image with the new effects adjustment in Photoshop CS5. Now I had two images that I could overlay on the main image of the quarry rock face.

With the image of the quarry face I ran an action over that allows me to brush in the details I do and don’t want. It’s very much like dodging and burning to me. I make three duplicate layers and add about a 20 pixel radius Gaussian Blur to each of them. Then I fade the blur effect by selecting Fade Gaussian Blur from the Edit Menu – Shift, Command, F (on MAC). Then, rather than reducing the opacity, I just change the blending modes. I do a different blending mode for each of the layers. So at the end I have a Soft Light Layer, a Screen Layer and a Multiply Layer. Each gives an effect to the image that I can adjust by simply adding a Layer Mask and painting in the effect that I want. For example, the Screen Layer lightens, the Multiply Layer darkens, and the Soft Light adds that little bit of punch. And because it is done on an Adjustment Layer I can change the opacity of my brush to affect only certain areas and I can reverse the effect I have created at any time.

I’ve also highlighted areas of the rock to show some contrast in the texture, because when I photographed it the light was soft and fairly flat. Now that my main image is looking the way I wanted it to – with the cliff face lightened and the sky darkened – I can go about creating some of the artistic version I envisioned.

First, I drag each of the images I want to overlay onto the main image and they stack up as layers on top of the main image. The first layer is the black & white sky texture. I set the Blending Mode to Screen and using layer masks, brush back the areas that I want to brighten.

I have a duplicate copy of the same black & white texture as the next layer, but the blending mode on this one is set to soft light. Using the same technique, I brush back to emphasize the areas I want darker.

The next layer on top is the colour sky texture and I set the blending mode to overlay and again brush in the details that I wish to emphasize using a layer mask. And I can change any of these at any time by switching the brush from black to white or vice versa to reverse the process.

The last two layers are Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layers. The first of these layers I increase the saturation by 47% then change the blending mode to overlay. This leaves an impressionable saturated punch on the overall image and especially in the red of the rocks. To add the dark moody feel that I am after in this image I check the colourize box in the next Hue/saturation adjustment layer while making the saturation 14% greater  and changing the hue to 237. lastly I change that layers blending mode to soft light. which maintains the red in the rock but brings through  the blue tone in the sky I was after. With an image like this, there are many different ways to interpret and edit the final result. I have edited to suit my vision at the time, but there are many variations and possibilities available with just a little experimentation.

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River Kayak team

The shot:
I photographed this image in the Guilford Bassendeen area along the Swan river. I was out for a BBQ breakfast early one autumn morning and the fog had been quite strong rising off the swan river. Many people were out in canoes and Kayaks practicing for the upcoming Avon descent. I has been out near the water in the freezing temperatures for around an hour taking mainly landscape images and was pretty much done shooting as the sun was getting higher in the sky and making a lot of glare. Then i noticed several of these kayakers paddling past and instantly pictured a nice silhouette style of image with the main light source behind the subject. I photographed a couple of silhouettes and the shadows were very harsh and glare quite strong. As the kayakers paddled around the bend I followed them so now the sun was giving me directional light from a slighter different and less harsh direction. There was still a little bit of fog which made interesting textures to the image. This image was shot with a Canon 1DS and a 24-70 mm 2.8 lens. The focal length was at 70 mm. To allow for a sharp frozen image I used a shutter speed of 1/200 at f13 and the ISO was at 400. On this camera at 400 there is a little bit of noise but I didn’t mind it so much.

Raw processing

This is how the raw exposure turned and while in camera raw I tried out one of the presets that i have saved to see if it would add an aged toned look that would take out the bland colours. The raw preset adds +43 in exposure, recovery to 100, fill light +1, black +5, brightness + 44, Contrast +77, Clarity +19, Vibrance -6, Saturation -42. The spilt toning feature is also used with the highlight hue +51 and the saturation 39. The shadows hue +33 and the saturation 15.

Editing

The image is then opened in photoshop for some isolated tweaks. I’ve decided I want to age the photo a bit more and so in Photoshop an hue/saturation adjustment layer is added. The colorize button is checked the hue change to 43 and the saturation to 15. Once this layer is added I realize i want just a touch more colour to seep through, and because I have used an adjustment layer this is a very simple process. I simply lower the opacity to 88%.

Now the image looked aged but its missing a little bit of punch that I would like in it. In this case I really want the fog to be prominent, so I create a duplicate layer and add the diffuse glow filter to this layer. Then to fad it in adequately i change the blending mode of that layer to soft light. The glow of the fog stands out nicely, and the contrast is punchy the way I would like it.

Just a last tip when working in photoshop you can always use the history palette to go back a few steps if you are not happy with any changes you make. But this is usually limited to 20 steps backwards so what I also like to do is take snapshots of each completed step by clicking the camera looking icon at the bottom of the history palette. That way I can with one click go back over each completed step I have used in the process.

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