Iceland Aurora Photographic

Products

Tony — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:44:20 +0000

2010 Calendar (Premium) 2010 Calendar (standard) High Quality Hard-back Book [...]

Photography workshops in Reykjavik

Tony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:05 +0000

These are similar to the tours, but are generally shorter and involve more tuition and less travel. AHOY The tuition is out in the Icelandic Nature and also in the studio and classroom. Attendees are expected to have their own DSLR, but computers and software are provided. Limited lens and tripod hire is also available. A typical [...]

Photography Tours in Iceland

Tony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:06:20 +0000

Iceland Aurora offer exciting photographic tours to all parts of Iceland. These are flexible tours for small groups and include advice and guidance regarding photography and the Icelandic Nature. Tours include transportation and accommodation outside of Reykjavik. Packages range from short camping trips to longer stays with more luxury accommodation. Gullfoss in April A typical package may [...]

Wedding photography

Tony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:05 +0000

Due to a very successful recent project involving a young Asian couple. I have decided to start providing a wedding photography service here in Iceland. My photo partner Hanna Birna Geirmundsdóttir has agreed to join me as a partner photographer. Hanna and I have worked as photographers together for the past year. We have different [...]

Exposing to the right

Tony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:10 +0000

It was until recently that is was common practice for landscape photographers to slightly underexpose image to increase highlight detail and increase saturation. But there is a new school of thought which suggests over exposing just short of blowing out the highlights will actually give you a better range of colours. Film In the days of film, [...]

Advanced Photoshop – Dramatic Mono Conversion

Tony — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:31:16 +0000

This tutorial looks at ways to convert your image to black and white using the tools available in Photoshop CS3. There may be work arounds for other versions of photoshop or other image editors. The first step is to prepare your image. Black and white has a higher dynamic range than colour so it may be [...]

Photoshop basics – simple colour correction

Tony — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:36:28 +0000

This is a quick and simple technique for correcting the colour of an image in photoshop. It is not always successful and will not give you the desired results 100% of the time. But as it is quick and easy it is definitely one to try. The first step is to duplicate the layer. My picture of [...]

Create a photoshop action – Colour boost

Tony — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:22 +0000

This tutorial offers an alternative to the saturation option for the editor who wants to boost the colours in an image. We will make a photoshop action for this colour boosting technique so that it can be applied easily to any image in the future. More information about creating an action can be found here. First [...]

Photography techniques – Hyperfocal distance

Tony — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:13:47 +0000

Hyperfocal distance is the art in photography of achieving as much sharpness as possible throughout the image. In other words, it involves careful focussing adjustments to ensure that objects close to the camera and objects in the distance all have the same sharp focus, but more accurately, the hyperfocal distance is that point of focus [...]

Geysir – The Geyser

Tony — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:47:09 +0000

Geysir is the spot in Iceland with the most active hot-springs and geysers. The name of the place actually gave us the word 'Geyser'. In Icelandic, 'Geysir' means 'to gush'... and indeed that is what they do. View Larger Map The main attraction was the huge geyser 'Geysir' which rarely spouts these days. It happens less than [...]