Bob Coates
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Sedona, AZ, United States
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Business portrait retouching with Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop
Adobe Camera RAW has some new masking features that help with business portrait retouching with Photoshop and ACR. → Read More
Boondocking build redone
My Toyota RAV 4 is the base for my boondocking build. Also known as car camping, boondocking lets me spend more time on site for photography → Read More
Using Olympus Live Composite feature to capture star trails
Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark III camera captures multiple image captures in a single frame & saves it as a RAW file while only recording NEW light. → Read More
Night sky photography with a half-moon
Night sky photography with a fair amount of moonlight lighting the sky can lessen the stars but makes the foreground easier to capture. → Read More
Vertorama in the extreme
An extreme vertorama is a panorama made vertically. The extreme part comes from recording the images from in front of the camera to behind. → Read More
How to set your camera up for better panoramas and vertoramas
Here's help to find that magical light entry point on your lenses for easier creation and processing of panorama and vertorama images. → Read More
Slow exposure for an artistic creek photo
Slow exposure can add to the depth and dimension of an image. It lends an artistic overlay to the flowing creek scene. Here are some tips. → Read More
Make your panoramas and vertoramas better with a few inexpensive tools
There are times when a stronger way to present your subject is a thin horizontal or vertical orientation AKA panoramas or vertoramas. → Read More
Protect your knees in landscape photography
Here's a quick photo tip. Protect your knees when out working in the landscape. A bit of closed cell foam is light & easy to customize. → Read More
Convention attendance tips for education events
I'm heading to Imaging USA, the PPA convention in Nashville on January 20. Here's what makes attendance more worthwhile for me and you. → Read More
Making images: Believe in yourself
Making images: Believe in yourself. This is a marketing post using personal projects to help promote art photography. → Read More
Look for photo inspiration in museums
Get ye to a museum for photo inspiration. You'll learn about shape, form, color composition and so much more if you study work of the masters → Read More
Nightscape photography gear and tips
When moisture settles from the sky at night it can play havoc with your images. Ice or dew on your lens? Not so good! Learn how to beat it. → Read More
Meteor shower nightscape photography tips
These nightscape photography tips should help you with capturing and post processing images of the night sky. → Read More
Storytelling with time-lapse video
Using a time lapse video can be a better storytelling option than still frames. I use Screenflow to create my videos to tell longer stories → Read More
Photoshop magic: Making people disappear from a scene
Make people disappear using the Median Stack technique in Adobe Photoshop. Make multiple images during capture and BOOM they are all gone. → Read More
Exposure bracketing: Split light in landscape photography
Landscape photography has challenges. Uneven lighting can cause problems. Foreground shadows & lit subject need help. Here's one way to deal. → Read More
Value of a vignette: Build an action
Here's how to build an action. I build a vignette action specifically for you in this article. Vignette's help keep your viewer in your image. → Read More
Bird photography tips: Timing and separation
Bird photography can suffer from a failure to pay attention. Since there are so many moving parts in avian photography it's easy to overlap → Read More
Post processing tip: Value of a vignette
Sometimes the value of a vignette doesn't become apparent until added to your image. Vignettes keep the viewers eye from leaving the frame. → Read More