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/lightroom-tutorial-diamonds-haystack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lightroom-tutorial-diamonds-haystack http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-diamonds-haystack/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:24:02 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2405 So you've come back from a shoot with hundreds of not thousands of files. How do you find the diamonds in such a large haystack?]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/lightroom-tutorial-diamonds-haystack/feed/ 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/exciting-nighttime-photography-10-easy-steps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exciting-nighttime-photography-10-easy-steps http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/exciting-nighttime-photography-10-easy-steps/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:01:32 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2257 Here is a simple 10 step process to capture both star trails and nighttime sky photographs at the same time.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/exciting-nighttime-photography-10-easy-steps/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-pond-owens-valley-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-photograph-pond-owens-valley-2011 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-pond-owens-valley-2011/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:43:19 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=2031 Follow along in the making of a photograph as we go from kneeling in the mud to the final print on paper.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/making-photograph-pond-owens-valley-2011/feed/ 7 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/computer-upgrade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=computer-upgrade http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/computer-upgrade/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:46:13 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=1972 Read about the exciting experience of setting up a new computer.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/how-to-articles/computer-upgrade/feed/ 0 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/the-making-of-a-photographwatchman-tower/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-making-of-a-photographwatchman-tower http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photographwatchman-tower/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:42:39 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photographwatchman-tower/ An example of how to process a difficult capture.]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photographwatchman-tower/feed/ 4 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-tutorial-atmospheric-haze/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photoshop-tutorial-atmospheric-haze http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-tutorial-atmospheric-haze/#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 20:04:27 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2010/05/01/photoshop-tutorial-atmospheric-haze/ Haze is an integral part of landscape photography.  Distant mountains are not as clear as close up objects.  They lack contrast, are often lighter and may even appear blue or even purple (purple mountain majesty).  It’s interesting that in the history of Western art, painters didn’t incorporate atmosphere into their paintings with landscapes until the [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-tutorial-atmospheric-haze/feed/ 0 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-3-photoshop-first-round/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-making-of-a-photograph-part-3-photoshop-first-round http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-3-photoshop-first-round/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:58:21 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/2009/11/09/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-3-photoshop-first-round/ In part one and two of this series I described how I selected the file to work on and explored the potential of the image in Lightroom.  The treatment I ended up with would be exported into Photoshop and we go from there. Read Part 1 Read Part 2 After trying several approaches particularly with [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-3-photoshop-first-round/feed/ 3 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-two-step/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photoshop-two-step http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-two-step/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:41:04 +0000 doinlight http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=267 I have a good friend who is a very fine photographer who hates Photoshop.  Not me.  I love it and will spend days and weeks on a single image.  But my friend hates Photoshop and wants to get done with it as quickly as possible. So I showed him a simple two-step approach to Photoshop that gets [...]]]> http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/articles/photoshop-two-step/feed/ 2