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Rob Knight - who has written 21 posts on The Digital Photo Experience.
Rob Knight is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom and a two-time Photoshop Guru finalist. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Rob loves to travel and share his passion for photography with others.
You can follow Rob on twitter @RobKnightPhoto, and find out about Rob's Costa Rica photo workshops at DphotoA.com
Composition Week, Day 7: Contrast
[Editors Note: This article concludes our weeklong series on composition by Rob Knight. Wo hope you enjoyed it, and if you have ideas for a weeklong series of articles, we'd love to hear about it. Click on the "Contact Us" button at the top of the page to send us an email.]
I’m sure you can [...]
Composition Week, Day 6: Pattern and Texture
June 11, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article every day, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
Another great way to look beyond the obvious is to shoot patterns and textures. There are many examples of patterns that you probably walk past [...]
Composition Week, Day 5: Shape and Form
June 10, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article every day, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
Try making photographs that are not so literal. Instead of looking for THINGS to photograph, look for abstract shapes and designs. Isolate small pieces of [...]
Composition Week, Day 4: Scale and Depth
June 9, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article every day, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
In simple terms, a photograph is a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional world. You can judge distance and size with your eyes quite [...]
Composition Week, Day 3: Frame Within a Frame
June 8, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article every day, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
This composition technique is another way to draw your viewer’s eye to your subject. The idea is to use an element or elements within your [...]
Composition Week, Day 2: Leading Lines
June 7, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article every day continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
Lines are a very important part of visual communication. Drawings, paintings, and even letters are made of lines. There a lot of ways you can use [...]
Composition Week, Day 1: Rule of Thirds
June 6, 2010
[Editors Note: This week we have Rob Knight on a weeklong series of composition tips just for you. We'll have one article a day starting today Sunday, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!]
How much research did you do before you bought your last camera? How about the last lens you bought, or even the [...]
Tethered Capture in Lightroom 3 Beta 2
May 10, 2010
Tethered shooting is a great way to make sure you’re “getting the shot”. Shooting tethered means that your DSLR camera is attached to your computer so that your images transfer directly to your hard drive instead of being saved to your memory card. The camera is normally connected to the computer via a USB cable,and [...]
Continue reading...Lightroom Week: Filter Friday
April 2, 2010
I’ve already written about Lightroom’s Library filters (read the article HERE), so I’m going to talk about a different type of filter for Filter Friday. There is an adjustment in Photoshop called “Photo Filter”. It contains several preset colors that warm or cool your image, as well as presets for adding more dramatic colors. These [...]
Continue reading...Targeted Color Adjustments in Lightroom
March 25, 2010
One of the things I have always liked about Lightroom is it’s simplicity. With just a few tips, most people can be up & running organizing and developing photos in no time. Another thing I enjoy about Lightroom is finding uses for the adjustment tools that are not necessarily obvious at first glance. Here are [...]
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June 12, 2010
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