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Create a Dark Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a misty landscape matte painting with a dark castle. We’ll create a misty scene with the layered mountains and the light from afar. The main technique here is blending with adjustment layers, masking and brushes. There are something basic you should know about contrast, distance, intensity etc, and we’ll dive into all of those in today’s lesson!

What is a lens mtf chart and how to use it to analyse lens quality.

What is a Lens MTF Chart 

lens mtf chart comparison of canon 50mm 1.8 and 1.4 lens.

MTF is the abbreviation for Modulation Transfer Function which is a measurement of the optical performance of a lens. MTF charts will give you a better u…

Lens Quality

The ever increasing megapixel count in modern digital cameras has reached a stage where the resolution of your picture is actually limited by the quality of lens used and not by the resolution of the camera. So lens quality has assumed new signif…

How to find the sharpest aperture on a lens?

What’s the best aperture to shoot?

This is one question many beginners ask. Well selection of aperture depends mainly on the effect that you wish to create in your picture.

how to find a lenses sharpest aperture

Shallow depth of field

What is a Fast Lens?

Fast Lenses

Fast Lens

Many newbies confuse the term fast lens to mean that these lenses allow you to shoot fast (frame rate). But that is not the case, Fast lenses are so called because they allow you to use faster shutter speeds for any give…

Aperture

Aperture is the opening in the lens through which light travels to reach the sensor. The size of the opening could be controlled by the photographer so as to let in more or less light as required. The amount that lens can open and close down is ref…