Best camera settings for astrophotography | Digital Camera World

Dip your toes into Astrophotography with this quick guide to the most important camera settings ...

Our series of pre-shot checklists continues with a look at the best camera settings for astrophotography.

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Daily Tips | How To Photograph and Retouch a Sunset

If you photograph a lot of sunsets (who doesn't?) then you'll find this tutorial by Serge Ramelli invaluable. He has a way of squeezing every ounce of colour from a shot. Enjoy!

In this article I am going to discuss more techniques and settings to get a great looking sunset panorama.

Source: Daily Tips | How To Photograph and Retouch a Sunset

Quick Edit Luminosity Masking Panel

If you use Photoshop a lot to blend exposures and/or brackets then youve probably heard of Luminosity Masking and you probably know what a pain it is to create the masks manually every time. This panel (PS CS6+) will allow you to do that quickly. That's it.

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How to get to - Roughting Linn, Northumberland

Following publication of our " Roughting Linn II " image we've had many requests asking "How do I get to Roughting Linn".

Google Maps seems to show the wrong location, some 5 miles off, so we've put together this short post to get you there. It's somewhat hard to describe once you leave the B roads but here we go ....

(as always there are many alternate routes)

Roughting Linn - How to get there ...

1. Head into Northumberland and get onto the B6525 Northbound at Doddington, after approx 10-12 Kilometres you'll come to a crossroads with a white house on the right, turn left. Go to (3)


2. Alternatively get on to the A1 North and exit onto the B6353 for Fenwick, proceed through Fenwick and Lowick, when you pass the entrance to the Barmoor Castle Country Park, stay on the road and will change to the B6525. I around 400m pass a farm on the right, a further 400m should bring you to a crossroads with a white house on the left, turn right.


3. You REALLY need to refer to the Google map below here.


4. Proceed down this road until you pass a large wood on the right, then it is present on both sides. When the wood on the left disappears you will be at a crossroads (in the centre of the Google map below), turn left and there is space here to park several cars on the verge.


5. Walk back to the crossroads, cross to the other side and proceed down the track for around 50 metres where you should find a small track heading off to the left, if you can hear the waterfall you've gone too far.


6. Follow this track down into the gulley and round to the right, like a horseshoe, and you should come to the burn.


7. Follow the burn to the waterfall.


8. Bingo

** As always, be careful as it is a track and not a footpath, the rocks can be slippery and if it's been raining a lot then the falls could be in full spate.

N.B. While you're there you can take a look at the Neolithic rock art. Back up to the track, cross over and look for the flat rocky area.

Map ...

That was the way we did it.

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Roughting Linn Rock Art

Hyperfocal focusing: how to calculate the best distance to focus at |Digital Camera World

If you're obsessed with critical sharpness in your shots from front to back, usually the landscape photographers, then it would be worth your while to read up on Hyperfocal Focusing. Whilst not the only method to achieve sharpness it is certainly one that cannot be ignored and is well worth having in your arsenal.

In this tutorial we answer all of the common questions photographers have about hyperfocal focusing and how to calculate the best distance.

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