Content Aware Transformation in Photoshop

Ultimate Hair Edge Masking Technique in Photoshop

This is quite a useful video whereby you get to learn of a few techniques in extracting humans from background. Note that this is probably not applicable in lots of cases but the technique used in blending background onto human body is quite good.

Creating Realistic Shadow in Photoshop

A video to show how to create a realistic shadow in Photoshop....

This presenter is among the best I have seen! Clear, straight to the point and speaking clear English.

Calibrating Your System - Skin

If you have 40 minutes to spare in order to learn something about photography, click on the link below and enjoy!

Red Skin correction in Photoshop

This is a very useful tutorial on how to modify skin colour. In this case, it is red skin.

Brian & Phoebe Wedding 29 June 2013

Last weekend, 29-Jun-2013, our church member Brian and Pheobe got married!

You may see some of the photos I took here.

Basic Lighting Technique for Studio Portraiture

Direction of Light in Portrait Photography

By Neil van Niekerk 
The video doesn’t just focus on studio light, it also explains how to manipulate and use natural light to its full advantage by thinking the shot through. Since you can’t exactly move the direction of the sunlight, you can change the way it affects your photograph by repositioning your subjects so they are in a more flattering light.
Watch:

Fluid Mask 3 - Working with the Forced Edge Tool

Although I don't use this facility, I shared it here just in case you need it.

Colour Correct Skin Tone on Photoshop

Skin Tone correction has always been a challenge. One of the issue is the colour display we have which is not calibrated or whatever reason you may have. This tutorial by Lynda shows how to adjust the CMYK numbers to make color corrections to skin... enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eJiM-fsvQXE

As a general starting point, yellow would be a little bit higher than magenta, cyan is between 1/5 to 1/3 of magenta and yellow. For darker skin, the values would be higher.
Use info panel (F8) and click on the skin area to be analysed using the eyedropper tool (I) and check the values of CMYK. To change the value, use a curve adjustment layer.

Another video similar to the above: Whitening Skin for "High Key look"
Editing a Tan

Tips on Photoshop/Camera etc

Just some nice link/collection:

44 essential digital camera tips and tricks
225 tips from famous photographers

99 Common Photography problems (and how to solved them):

1. General Photography Problems
2. Using lenses
3. Digital camera accessories
4. Digital camera settings and controls
5. Camera exposure
6. Using flash
7. Photography technique

If you want to improve your photo composition, read this article:
10 rules of photo composition

Photoshop:
20 things you need to know about Photoshop CS6: Click Here
6 photo editing steps every photographer should know

D600 Resource page

D600 resource page:
http://betterfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/p/nikon-d600-review-and-resource-page.html

D600 Review
http://www.btobey.com/nikon/d600-review.php

Nikon shutter count
http://www.nikonshuttercount.com/

Pre-wedding photography

Butterfly photography

I personally found that it is very difficult to take nice photos of insect because they never stay still. The major problem is that they keep moving or they fly away very easily.

I was pleasantly surprised that butterfly stays still during mating. I can approached them until I was only 1 foot away.
The above photo was taken using my 200mm macro lens, aperture F/36, shutter 1/60s, ISO-400 using my Nikon D600.
A back light was used in the above photo. This means that I used my off camera SB910 flashgun almost directly opposite the camera.
Click on the photo above to view a much larger image.