Altering a high dynamic range photograph with Barry Beckham

Barry Beckham took to digital photography in the early days when it was still considered a black art by many. He saw the potential of digital photography and the improvements it would bring and began using Photoshop back in the days when it was version 3. Barry has gone on to produce tutorials for many of the UK photography magazines as well as authoring a book for Photoshop Elements.

However, his main passion is creating high quality images using Photoshop and he has become quite an expert in the practical use of this software. He is now producing videos exclusively for ePhotozine.tv using Photoshop and PicturesToExe audio visual software.

Barry is also well know in audio visual circles for his stunning AV shows, many of which can be downloaded from his web site. Barry has lectured all around the UK where his practical skills are constantly in demand.

High definition images seem to be the latest buzz words, but they can look a little unnatural when completed. They also require us to use a tripod, but if you are anything like us at Beckham Digital our tripod is almost always back at home when we need it most.

However, all is not lost and we can stretch the definition of our images to a considerable degree using Adobe Camera Raw, Smart Objects and layers.

In this video we show you how you can do this with RAW files or high resolution JPEGs if you are not a Raw shooter.