http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress Sun, 20 May 2012 20:14:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-black-white-points/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-photograph-black-white-points http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-black-white-points/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:27:58 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2385 Add snap to your photographs by adding contrast. This step-by-step shows you how to set black and white points in Lightroom.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-black-white-points/feed/ 2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-workflow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightroom-tutorial-workflow http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-workflow/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:16:59 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2353 An overview of a very effective Lightroom workflow.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-workflow/feed/ 4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/expose-revisited/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expose-revisited http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/expose-revisited/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:09:46 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2142 Expose to the right is a powerful technique for capturing the most information in your raw files. But processing these images can be a bit daunting at first.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/expose-revisited/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-shooting-raw/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightroom-tutorial-shooting-raw http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-shooting-raw/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:12:54 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2099 Follow along as I show you how to turn an overexposed mistake into a pretty decent sunset photograph.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-shooting-raw/feed/ 2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-exposurehistograms-part-4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-4/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 16:11:40 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-4/ Learn more about histograms. We explore the histogram that results from low contrast scenes - how to capture it and what can be done with it in post processing.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-4/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-exposurehistograms-part-2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-2/#comments Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:49:00 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-2/ Take a deep dive into the often misunderstood histogram and discover the critical role it plays in capturing great photographs.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/mastering-exposurehistograms-part-2/feed/ 2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-exposure-2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure-2/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:37:00 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure-2/ With the advent of digital cameras people don’t understand exposure so well any more.  It’s not like in the early SLR days where the cameras didn’t have built in light meters.  You had to use a hand held light meter or, lacking that, just guess.  There was no way you could get along without knowing [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure-2/feed/ 2 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-exposure http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 16:44:10 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/05/29/mastering-exposure/ This article pulls together several articles on exposure and makes them available in one place.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/mastering-exposure/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/photography-tutorial-light-meter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photography-tutorial-light-meter http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/photography-tutorial-light-meter/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 19:41:54 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/05/09/photography-tutorial-light-meter/ There’s something I’ve been puzzling about for a long time.  So I finally decided to check it out and share the results with you.  I wanted to know the relationship between the camera’s built-in light meter and the histogram.  OK, sounds geeky so what exactly am I talking about and why do I care? If [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/photography-tutorial-light-meter/feed/ 4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-foundations-exposure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photographic-foundations-exposure http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-foundations-exposure/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:05:37 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/02/06/photographic-foundations-exposure/ When I’m asked how I get such intense landscape photographs I respond that it all begins with the fundamentals, the photographic foundation.  Given that you have the other elements of a great photograph – a terrific subject and fantastic light – you are still not guaranteed a compelling image if it doesn’t have a solid [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photographic-foundations-exposure/feed/ 2