Light & Land, Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom: eBook

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Light & Land, Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom

Light and Land, Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom by Michael Frye is the newest ebook to the Craft & Vision library. Michael, a photographer based on the doorstep of Yosemite Nation Park, knows his stuff about inspired landscapes and the post-processing techniques that make his vision a reality.

Light and Land is written specifically for people with an interest in landscapes and who want to clarify their own unique vision. Landscape work, like other specific genres, has its own challenges with respect to the digital darkroom and this ebook will be of use to anyone wanting to take their post-processing to the next level.

With equal parts inspiration and instruction Michael goes step-by-step through the aesthetic judgements behind each decision, and he unpacks the principles behind the landscape-specific considerations. Michael walks you through the Lightroom-based development of 5 different images, discussing the hows and whys of each one. The principles apply equally for Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop. Light and Land is crammed full of content and is available now as a downloadable PDF for just $5USD.

The digital darkroom gives us tremendous control over our images. We can make them lighter, darker, add contrast, change the colour balance, increase saturation, turn a colour photograph into black and white, remove telephone poles, blend exposures with HDR, combine ten images to capture infinite depth of field, or put a winged elephant in the sky. But what do we do with all these choices? Light & Land will help you with this consideration.

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Michael Frye is a professional photographer specializing in landscapes and nature. He has written numerous magazine articles on the art and technique of photography, and his images have been published in over thirty countries around the world.