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Photography Tips and Photoshop CS4 Technique

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We are often asked if we sort our images when we come back from a days shooting, discarding those that we do not feel will make a stand alone image. The answer to that question is No. We never do and for three reasons. One reason is that when we shoot Raw we can often miss the quality of an image when viewed as a thumbnail amongst many other thumbnails. Our attention will be drawn to the more colourful ones and if we are not careful we will discard an image that really should be retained. There is also the possibility that we may want to use part of that image at some time in the future in a montage, but the final reason is that it just takes too long to sort through hundreds of thumbnails just to throw out a couple of dozen. It is not worth the time it takes.

DVD's are cheap and it is probably better to just save all you shoot and use the time you would have spent on sorting images, creating them. In this video we try to demonstrate what we mean by taking a small crop of an image and working that image though Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). We use the new graduated filter in ACR and also risk some interpolation to get an A3 image from a small part of our digital file. We also do a little creative stuff by bringing the bird out in colour through a mono background. This has the advantage that we kill all the background distractions and our main point of interest then leaps from the image.

All this from an image we could easily have thrown out?

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