Haje Jan Kamps

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Posts from January 2007

5 years ago

Web 2.0, meet Photoshop

Ever find yourself on a computer without any editing software? All you want to do is to crop an image, fix the contrast, and resize it? Well, if you’ve got a reasonably new browser, you’re saved: Enter Picnik, a brand new type of image editing software, bringing the genre well into line with all the other Web 2.0 apps out there. In short, Picnik is to Photoshop what gmail is to e-mail, [...]

5 years ago

Using adjustment layers

Photo editing falls into two categories: Adjustments, which affect the whole photograph (much like our introduction to contrast, using the levels tool, from yesterday), and spot editing, which affects a smaller part of an image. Any photo editing you do with brushes, selection tools etc would be a spot edit. While spot editing can be useful, it’s adjustment editing which is the big advantage [...]

5 years ago

Contrast in photos

Do you enjoy a smattering of random photography links? Well, squire, I welcome thee to join me on Twitter - Follow @Photocritic © Kamps Consulting Ltd. This article is licenced for use on Pixiq only. Please do not reproduce wholly or in part without a license. More info. [...]

5 years ago

Photographing smoke

Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new — or re-invent old — versions of photography techniques. One of the ones that is going like wild-fire (excuse the pun) around the interwebs at the moment is the art of photographing coloured smoke. The trend started with the highly talented Graham Jefferey, of Sensitive Light fame, whose phenomenal photographs [...]

5 years ago

Renting camera equipment

I know I keep going on about this, but there’s no denying that photography can be an insanely expensive hobby: Especially if you’re curious about why people start shelling out thousands and thousands of dollars/pounds/euros on glass with a little red L on it… Once you’ve shot a couple of hundred photos with professional equipment, it’s too easy to reach for your [...]

5 years ago

My book is finished!

Even though it won’t go on sale for another couple of months – It’s on sale now!, things are starting to happen really quickly now. I’ve finished most of my involvement of the book, and I’ve handed it over to the project-, copy- and technical editors, designers, and publishing boffins. They never told me quite how much work it is to write a book on macro photography. [...]

5 years ago

Time for some Frame Storming!

Just after we run our ‘photography with rules’ article, Popular Photography magazine comes along and beats us to it with an even better idea, by declaring January 21st as ‘international shooting-all-the-time’ day! The concept? Take a photo at least every 5 mintutes for 15 hours of the day. But surely, that is complete and utter madness? Well, no — much for the same [...]

5 years ago

Dogma photography

As a kinda-sorta follow-up from my most recent critique, where several of the commenters mentioned that they felt that their photography got better when they imposed rules on themselves, I started thinking: Which other constraints can you put on photography? First of all — why? Well, in a machoistic kind of way, making rules about the way you take photos is a creative way to think about [...]

5 years ago

Think of photos as paintings

There’s a lot to be said for how the accessibility of affordable digital cameras has improved the level of photography overall, and I’m strongly in favour of the idea that digital photography is a good thing. The downside of digital photography is that we are seeing a whole generation of people who never saw a frame of film as something precious. There are thousands upon thousands of [...]

5 years ago

Competitions on Photocritic

The hawk-eyed among you will have noticed that we’ve got a couple of new features here on Photocritic. The most noticeable is a competitions calendar in the sidebar on the Photocritic home page. You might have spotted that I’ve every now and again included some competitions into the site. This is because I love the idea of using competitions to turn you into a better photographer. [...]

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