On this video, I will talk about how to use the Digital Blending technique to create a better composition. Digital blending can be very powerful. In fact, advanced techniques like Time Blending and Luminosity Masking are also one of the ways of using Digital Blending. With a bit of creativeness, you can combine light trails, adding multiple fireworks into a single photo or removing tourists (Which I will share in the future). Other than Digital Blending, I will also talk abou

Here’s my end-to-end post-processing workflow when editing a landscape photo. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas in creating your own one too. 🙂 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! :) #website #highpass #size #luminositymasks #facebooksize #landscapephotography #photoshopcc #luminositymask #sharpe

So that your photos will look great on Facebook, Instagram and your website. Without wasting any more time, here’s the video. Download the Web Sharpening Action for Adobe Photoshop As mentioned in the video, here’s the Web Sharpening action that I created. Installing GreyChow Web Sharpening Action To install the action pack, please perform the following actions Unzip the downloaded GreyChow Web Sharpening.zip file. Double click on GreyChow Web Sharpening.atn file, this will a

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

There are so many composition guidelines out there, isn’t that very confusing to you? To keep simple, I focus on the FIVE most commonly used Compositions that are more practical for Landscape photography. Let me know if you wish to see more videos that talk about the compositions in the future. 🙂 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

To help everyone in planing their photo shooting, I have compiled a list of my favourite shooting locations in Malaysia. 🙂 If you think the video is helpful, feel free to share it with your friend. 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! :) #putra #shooting #selangor #location #petronas #seremban #hotel #gr

You may have heard of this challenge before, but have you tried it out before? In 2014, I had committed myself to this 52 Weeks Photo Challenge, and my photography skill set has greatly improved since then. Because of that, I want to share this with you. What is 52 Weeks Photo Challenge? The challenge is basically required you to POST a photo once in a week and continue doing it for a total of 52 WEEKS, which also means ONE YEAR too. How is it compare to the 365 Photo Challen

When I just started my photography journey, I realized it could be very challenging for finding a good location for photo shooting. To ease my fellow photographers in shooting, I have compiled some of the easy access locations into this article. Hopefully, this will help you all with better planning. On top of that, I also encourage the beginner to connect with other photographers via social media. It is more enjoyable to take photos with those who share the same passion, and

Do you know that you can still download Nik Software for Free? Although it is not the latest 2018 version but a 2012 version. Still, you will find out that the older version with similar functionalities and tools, and you can get it by click on below button. Get Nik Software 2012 If you don’t know what is Nik Software. It is a group of plugins package that’s dedicated for Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop. It is very popular among the photographers, but not everyone can afford the

Milky Way season is here! Are you ready for photographing the beautiful galaxy? To ease everyone in identifying the best time for taking the photo, I have compiled all the info into this simple time chart, yeah! As you can see, the chart is showing information for every weekend, which is the time most people are free for photo shooting. Each weekend, there’s information for the Moon and Milky Way. For the Moon, I included the Moon phase, Moonrise and Moonset time. The basic

If you ever tried out taking a photo of the Milky Way or Star trail at night, you will know that having a perfect focus is not easy. Unlike taking a photo in daytime, not only you have to do the focusing in the dark that you can hardly see anything but also forced to use a wider aperture that you can easily miss focus and get a blurry photo. The photo that’s out of focus is not recoverable even with the help of post-processing. Sorry to say, these photos are considered unusab

One of the most frequently asked questions that I received is where to photograph the Milky Way? Well, no doubt that finding a good shooting spot for Milky Way can be difficult. The place has to be very dark with at least minor light pollution and most importantly with a good foreground subject. A lot of people that failed on their first try most likely is because they are not at a “dark” enough place. (Other possible causes are going at the wrong timing or pointing the camer

In the year 2017, my last outing was going to the Putrajaya Light Festival. It is known as Light and Motion Putrajaya (LAMPU), “LAMPU” is a Malay word that means lamp. It was in its fifth year but my first time ever to attend the Festival. I’m the type of person that tend to avoid places that filled with large crowds, so it took me a few years to urge myself came here for the photos. Even so, I’m still picking the less crowded day by avoiding the weekend and be there on it’s

It is almost the end of the year, I believe that some photographers are already started preparing for the New Year’s Eve fireworks show. If you are new to photographing the fireworks or looking for some tips and tricks, I have 7 tips here that I would like to share with you all. 🙂 1 – Using a tripod Tripod is crucial here. You will be taking photos with Shutter Speed at least several seconds long and you’d want to avoid any handshake that can cause a blurry photo. Good news

Recently I have the opportunity from Sleeklens company, offering me their Photoshop plugin Landscape Adventure Collection and doing a review for the product itself. The Landscape Adventure Collection provided 56 photoshop actions, once you downloaded the product pack and unzip it, just double click on the Sleeklens Landscape PS Actions.atn file, it will open the Photoshop application and automatically loaded all the action in your Photoshop’s Action Window. If you don’t have

Last Sunday, me and my friends were hiking up to the Crystal Hill (Bukit Tabur), it was 4 years ago since my last visit, until recently, when my friend Alan reminded me again. Before this, I have seen some sea cloud photos from others but myself never meet once, at the same time, due to the monsoon season, there’s are raining almost every night, which I hoping that this will generate enough humidity for some sea cloud. With a strong hope in mind and Alan as our guide (he is a

Batu Cave, locate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a sacred place of Hindu shrine that worship Hindu deity Lord Murugan. During every year Thaipusam Festival, over millions of Hindus from local and all around the world will gather here for the celebration dedicated to the Lord Murugan. A procession begins in the wee hours of the morning from the Sri Mahamariamman Temple leading up to Batu Caves as a religious undertaking to Lord Muruga lasting eight hours. Devotees will carry