Review Digital Camera World 08-08-2013

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8 common mistakes photographers make on holiday (and how to get it right) Aug 7th 2013, 23:01, by anicholson Many photographers have to fit their hobby around a full-time job, so their annual vacation is the perfect opportunity to spend some time taking photographs. In the seventh part of her ongoing series about how to avoid making classic photographic mistakes our head of testing, Angela Nicholson, takes a look at some of the problems photographers encounter on holiday and offers some expert advice about how to avoid them. Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 01 Kit damaged in transit Hand luggage allowances are very restricted on some airlines and this makes it tempting to squeeze some of your kit into your hold luggage, but it's a temptation that is best resisted. Standard suitcases and bags often take quite a pounding and delicate cameras and lenses are easily damaged. If you are going to put some of your photographic kit in the hold make sure it’s in a case that is specifically designed for the purpose. The possible exceptions to this rule are things like your tripod, memory cards and battery charger, these are usually sturdy enough to be able to survive the trip in a hold surrounded by your underwear. PAGE 1 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 01 Kit damaged in transit PAGE 2 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 02 Sand/water damaged kit PAGE 3 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 03 Kit damaged by cleaning PAGE 4 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 04 Underexposed beach shots PAGE 5 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 05 Blurred night-time shots PAGE 6 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 06 Images full of tourists PAGE 7 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 07 Upsetting the locals PAGE 8 – Classic Travel Photography Mistakes: 08 Gear overheating or freezing READ MORE 79 travel photography tips you shouldn’t leave home without 21 street photography tips from the professionals Best rolling camera bag for photographers: 6 top models tested and rated 10 common exposure problems every photographer faces (and how to fix them) 20 free Photoshop actions for black and white landscapes Aug 7th 2013, 10:53, by jmeyer Download our free Photoshop actions for black and white landscapes and give your landscape photography a monochrome makeover! Photoshop Actions might not be the most glamorous aspect of creative post-processing, but integrate them into your digital workflow and you'll save bags of time by applying your favourite special effects in seconds. As we’ve explained before, an Action is essentially a recording of a Photoshop process (you can only record Actions in CS or Photoshop CC, by the way; newer versions of Elements enable you to play Actions, but the options are limited). The result works a treat, but it's time-consuming if you want to apply it to lots of images. Record it as an Action, however, and it can be applied to other shots with a single click. And as if this wasn't clever enough, you can apply an Action to an entire batch of images. You can even share your Actions online, or download Actions created by others… such as the ones we’re offering you today! Free Photoshop actions for black and white landscapes When you shoot dozens of similar landscape images in the same location, you may end up needing to tweak loads of nearly identical photos. For example, a batch of shots may need tones altered to increase the contrast range or a boost in colour saturation to increase impact. You could slog through each photo one at a time, tweaking contrast using a Curves Adjustment Layer and then adding a Hue/ Saturation Adjustment Layer to boost colour, but this repetitive editing process could take ages. And if you are converting your landscapes to black and white and know the specific look you want to achieve with each picture, Photoshop Actions become even more important. We’ve compiled what we believe are 20 of the best Photoshop actions for black and white landscapes. These are classic effects ranging from high-contrast black and white to Cyanotype to infrared and a whole lot more. They’ve proved particularly useful to us, so we thought we’d share them with you! Click here to download your 20 free Photoshop Actions for black and white landscapes. READ MORE 50 free Photoshop Actions for portrait photographers The black and white landscape: how to make a mono masterpiece 14 photo editing tricks and tips every landscape photographer must know 13 ways famous landscape photographers make money from their photography

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