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Mar 11, 2021
1 min

How To Find The Milky Way (Timesheet included)

If you plan to photograph the Milky Way, the first thing is to know how to find it. Milky Way doesn’t always stay at a fixed position throughout the year, and it moves from one direction to another direction. To explain with you more on how to locate the Milky Way, I created this Youtube Video. 🙂 Also, if you plan to Photograph the Milky Way in Malaysia, here are the NEW 2021 Timesheet to ease you in planning your photo shooting. You can get the complete Milky Way Timesheet

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Aug 7, 2020
3 min

How to get the correct Milky Way colour

Recently, I received a question from one of my students regarding what’s the right colour of the Milky Way. I think it is a good question. It also makes me want to share the answer with you all and how to get the right Milky Way colour. We have seen countless photos of the Milky Way in different colour variations, orange, magenta, blue and even white, but which one is correct? From an Astronomy perspective, the colour of the Milky Way should be yellow and orange. Like the bel

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Jun 26, 2020
1 min

How to photograph Milky Way

Milky Way is mesmerizing, but to photograph it, the camera settings are going to be slightly different than usual Landscape Photography. If you are new to Astrophotography, rest assured. 🙂 On this video, I will share what’s the camera gears should you use and what’s the right camera settings to photograph the Milky Way. Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please

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Jun 17, 2020
1 min

Create a better composition with digital blending

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

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Apr 29, 2020
1 min

Post-processing Workflow for Landscape Photography

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

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Apr 23, 2020
1 min

How to sharpen your photo for social media and web

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

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Apr 13, 2020
1 min

How to blend lights into a photo

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

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Apr 7, 2020
1 min

How to create Luminosity Masks

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

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Apr 1, 2020
1 min

How to edit photos using Luminosity Masking

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

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Mar 23, 2020
1 min

Luminosity Masking for Exposure Recovery

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

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Mar 5, 2020
1 min

Photograph the Milky Way at Tasik Beris

I always think that being able to share my actual photo shooting experience with you all would be a good idea. With that, you can understand more about the shooting condition and what camera setting that I used to take a photo. Here’s my first attempt at vlogging in the year 2020. I combined videos from my Nikon D610, iPhone 11 Pro Max and some drone footage from my friend. The edited photo was taken using Nikon Z7 + 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. There are more for me to improve in vlo

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Feb 21, 2020
1 min

Five Most Commonly Used Compositions for Landscape Photography

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

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Feb 3, 2020
1 min

Simple Editing, Stunning Result

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! :) #

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Jan 22, 2020
1 min

Best Shooting Locations In Malaysia

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

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Jan 7, 2020
4 min

Photoshop Fundamental: Using Selection

In my previous blog post, I have talked about the LAYER and LAYER MASK, which are the most important fundamental in Photoshop. If you wish to master Photoshop, the next thing you should be familiar with is using SELECTION. 🙂 If you haven’t read my previous blog post and have no other about LAYER and LAYER MASK, please check out the post HERE. So that you will have a better understanding of the steps I’m going to mention later here. What is Selection? SELECTION is basically

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Dec 12, 2019
5 min

Photoshop Fundamental: Layer & Layer Mask

If you ask me, what makes Photoshop such a powerful editing software? I would say Layer & Layer Mask. It is the core of Photoshop; every editing in Photoshop are base on that. It is also the first thing you should understand if you want to learn using Photoshop. Here, I will guide you through WHAT is Layer & Layer MASK, WHY you need them, and HOW to use them. This blog post is for anyone NEW to Photoshop, so no worry if this is the first time you are using (or haven’t) Photos

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Dec 6, 2019
3 min

How I edit this photo – Okunoin Cemetery

This photo took me hours to edit this photo and even scrapped the first edited PSD file to redo the photo. I kept finetuning the photo again and again until I got the result that I wanted. Why is this photo so challenging? Or I should say it is “FUN” instead of “CHALLENGING“. 😃 It is something that I never captured and edited before. The photo is about a beautiful cemetery, and I wanted to create a dark, mysterious and yet appealing photo. I was so excited about trying that

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Sep 23, 2019
6 min

Camera Setting for Landscape Photography

Want to know how to decide the best CAMERA SETTING to take a photo? If you are a beginner, you may get puzzled with all the settings like ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, Exposure compensation, White Balance, etc. Making shooting in Manual mode sounds like a scary monster to you, but it can be as easy as ABC. To keep everyone life simple, I created a simple process flow to guide you in deciding your camera setting for Landscape Photography. Did I say Landscape Photography? Yes,

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Aug 21, 2019
5 min

52 Week Photo Challenge

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

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May 28, 2019
4 min

Best Time Of Day To Photograph Landscape

Typically, for Landscape photographers, we tend to favour in taking photos in the morning or evening, which is the transition time from night to day or vice versa. During the transition, the colour of the sky will change from yellowish to multi colours, then blue colours before it turns into entirely dark or the other way around in the morning. At the same time, the lighting of the scene will also change accordingly. The transition time can split into the following light pha

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