A minimalism black and white photo can be interesting, but the way editing it is quite different from usual photos of Landscape or Astro. Here’re some of the adjustments I usually make when processing a black and white photo, and I hope these tips will help you in improving your photos. Without wasting any more time, let’s start with the first tip. 😀 Tip #1 – Edit the sky separately Have you ever wondered why the sky in those Black and White photos is always darker than the

On this video, I will share how to blend the lights from photos that took at different times. The video also shows other adjustments that I make to produce the outcome photo. You can download the RAW files that I used in the video. So that you can learn better by following the steps. Download GreyChow LM Action Pack Installing GreyChow LM Action Pack To install the action pack, please perform the following actions Unzip the downloaded GreyChow LM Action Pack.zip file. Double

As promised, here is how to create all the Luminosity Masks manually without using my “GreyChow LM action pack”. *Correction: To subtract a channel, it should be “Cmd + Opt + Click” on Mac not “Cmd + Alt + Click”. To understand the basic of the Luminosity Masking and Exposure Recovery: For a more advanced way of using Luminosity Masking: If you want to download the “GreyChow LM Action pack”, you can get it here. Installing GreyChow LM Action Pack To install the action pack, p

This is the part 2 about how to use Luminosity Masking to edit your photo. This time, I’m going to do exposure recovery using three photos with different exposures. (On the previous video, I was using only two) Also, I will share with you on a better way in finetuning the Luminosity Masks and other methods in using the Luminosity masking to make your photo more Pop. To understand the basics of the Luminosity Masking, you can check out my previous video here: Visit the page Gr

What’s Luminosity Masking? Luminosity Masking is an advanced editing technique that’s widely used among the landscape photographer. In this video, I’m going to explain in detail what’s Luminosity Masking, why is it so powerful and how to use the technique to recover an overexposed sky. Also, I have created a Luminosity Masking Action Pack to ease you in creating all those Luminosity Masks. You can download the Action Pack here. Installing GreyChow LM Action Pack To install th

Do we really need complicated editing techniques to produce a well-edited photo? Well, I’m going to answer that and explain why in this latest Youtube video. Also, I will demonstrate how to produce a pleasant photo using simple adjustment tools in Adobe Lightroom. Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please feel free to share this post if you enjoy reading it! :) #

Last weekend sunrise outing was a huge success with more than 40 participants showed up, thank you for coming! 😀 During the outing, there were participants who wanted to know more about the filters. Because of that, I’m writing this blog post to explain further how to use ND filters. Let’s start with the WHY. Why should we use ND filters? If you are interested in creating something uncommon and not be able to see by our naked eyes, you should try out Long Exposure Photograp

Filters or Bracketing? Which one should you pick? Both methods allow you to resolve the overexposed sky issues, which is the common problem that every beginner is facing in Landscape Photography. So, what’s the difference between using filters and bracketing? Which types of filter are useful in photographing the landscape? And is it really necessary for us to get a filter If we can do bracketing? I’m going to answer all these in this article. Let’s start with the filters. Fil

Having an overexposed sky when photographing the sunrise/sunset is a common issue for every beginner in Landscape photography. In this video, I will teach you how to recover the overblown sky using Digital Blending technique. Before get into Digital Blending, you will need to have a series of bracketed shots first, which is a group of photos of the same scene with different exposures. To learn how to do Bracketing, you can check out my previous blog post here: http://greychow