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    How to blend lights into a photo
    • 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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    How to create Luminosity Masks
    • 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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    How to edit photos using Luminosity Masking
    • 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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    Luminosity Masking for Exposure Recovery
    • 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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    Best Shooting Locations In Malaysia
    • Jan 21, 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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    Filters vs Bracketing
    • Jun 28, 2019
    • 7 min

    Filters vs Bracketing

    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
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    Recover Overexposed Sky With Digital Blending
    • Jun 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    Recover Overexposed Sky With Digital Blending

    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
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    Camera Gears For Landscape Photography
    • May 30, 2019
    • 8 min

    Camera Gears For Landscape Photography

    Want to know what is the required equipment to get into Landscape/Nightscape photography? To give you a clearer picture, I think it would be better for me to share with you what I have in my camera bag. (or something that I have used before) Without wasting any more time, let’s get started! 😀 P.s. for non-Nikon users, you can still base on my suggestion to find the similar equipment for your camera system. 😉 Camera First, is the camera (obviously) but I believe that you mus
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    Best Time Of Day To Photograph Landscape
    • May 27, 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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    The Flow Of Time
    • Aug 24, 2016
    • 4 min

    The Flow Of Time

    Mount Bromo, one of the most popular active volcanos on the earth. Enthusiast (Visitor) from all around the world comes here just to witness the magnificent view of the iconic Mount Bromo under the magnificent sunrise. But if you come at the peak season, beware of the massive crowd; it is like Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Me and my friends spent 6D5N in Java Island, Indonesia hunting for Milky Way and sunrise. We start with Ijen , a volcano crater famous with sulfur mining and a u
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    Colors Of Cameron
    • Jan 12, 2016
    • 2 min

    Colors Of Cameron

    Cameron Highland, one of the favorite landscape spot of mine in Malaysia. It have the largest Tea Plantation in South East Asia, covering a total 8,000 acres planted with tea plant. Driving along the road here, you will see the neat tea plants covering up the hills, forming a beautiful and refreshing view. There are several sunrise angle here, this one that I took, is a angle that famous among the local wedding photographer, mainly because it is easy access, and there a place
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    King Of The World
    • Nov 25, 2015
    • 3 min

    King Of The World

    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
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