Andy Gock

A very interesting storm come over the late yesterday afternoon at Warners Bay jetty and I was able to be there to capture it. What beautiful colours in the sky we had! And it all kept changing every minute.

Here is my favorite shot from the evening:

This photo was made from blending two exposure together. A technique I blogged about previously in my tutorials section. It also had some colour adjustments performed in CIELAB mode, my favourite method of colour adjustment. The long movement in the clouds is due to the long exposure, of around 90 seconds while using my ND400 filter.

I love days like this when nature puts on a great show for us photographers.

Welcome to Part 2 of the Smart Objects for Photographers tutorial. This is a step-by-step tutorial on processing images using smart objects, in particular, selective white balancing.

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I know I’ve been a little slack and haven’t updated this as much as I would have liked, things have been a little hectic and I still plan on putting up some more Photoshop smart objects tutorials later.

This weekend, I met up with a few Flickr members for a sunrise shoot, at the secluded Susan Gilmore Beach. It was a nice morning, with clear skies though a few clouds would have made the images a bit more interesting. It was almost spot on at low tide, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that low before, as I easily was able to walk there and back without wading through water!

Here are two of my favourite shots from the day.

On both of these images, I used my previously posted techniques for exposure blending and colour boosting.

The first image was around 20 minutes before the sun came up, and I used a ND8 (3 stop neutral density) filter, and the second image of the sun rising I used a ND400 filter, one of my favourite filters for landscape photography.