Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Digital Camera - Ken Gilbert
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Clive Mason (Getty Images)<br />
photo teChniques<br />
02 Tryyour hand<br />
at motorsports<br />
Make your RAW shots really roar!<br />
The summer months are a petrolhead’s<br />
dream, whether you’re an F1 or MotoGP<br />
nut, or more into classic motors. Head<br />
to glorious Goodwood for this year’s Festival<br />
of Speed (2-4 July) and you can rub shoulders<br />
with motorsports legends and other celebrities<br />
while bagging great shots of everything from<br />
muscle cars to bubble cars. Meanwhile, the F1<br />
British Grand Prix takes place at Silverstone<br />
on 9-11 July. Or, check out your local paper for<br />
details of classic car and bike rallies – colour,<br />
chrome and characters guaranteed!<br />
<strong>Digital</strong><strong>Camera</strong> July2010<br />
Get to grips with panning<br />
techniques and you could<br />
capturedramatic<br />
motorsports shots like this<br />
Don’t<br />
miss…<br />
Our interview<br />
with an F1 pro<br />
shooter<br />
on p100<br />
Get started today…<br />
* Use a diffuser (or white card) and polarising<br />
lens filter for killer car close-ups on sunny days.<br />
* Don’t forget the details can look great too,<br />
so include decals, interiors and shiny chrome.<br />
* Try graduated filters (whether physical<br />
or in Photoshop later) to give your skies that<br />
dramatic Top Gear look.<br />
* Try panning when shooting car races – set a<br />
1/50 sec shutter speed and swivel your hips to<br />
create wonderful motion blur. Merely freezing a<br />
racing vehicle in a shot gives no sense of speed.<br />
DiGital Darkroom<br />
03 Lightup<br />
asunset<br />
Glorious sunset aphoto<br />
washout? Read this…<br />
Warm it up<br />
1Use Adobe <strong>Camera</strong> Raw (ACR) in<br />
Photoshop CS to liven up your flat<br />
sunset. First move the Temperature slider<br />
to a hot 12250. It’s a very similar process in<br />
Photoshop Elements.<br />
Back to black…<br />
2For deep tones and rich blacks in the<br />
foreground take the Blacks slider to<br />
around 15, the Exposure slider to -0.40 and<br />
Contrast to about 40. Use the Fill Light slider<br />
to recover foreground detail, if necessary.<br />
Thefinal polish<br />
3Move the Clarity slider to around 25<br />
to refine the midtone contrast and<br />
perceived sharpness. Set the Vibrance<br />
slider to a similar level to boost the colours<br />
while leaving over-saturated colours alone.
Change language