• Adventure,  Art,  Book,  Travel

    Photography | The Visual Storyteller | Creating Stronger Stories and Better Photographs

    © 2013 Craft and Vision | The Visual Storyteller | Creating Stories and Better Photographs by Oded Wagenstein Some of the most powerful photographs tell – or imply – a story. Of course, not all of them do, but the ones that do seem to engage us in ways others don’t. Capturing a sense of story in our photographs isn’t easy, but it’s a good way to make our photographs stronger.  Oded Wagenstein is a young Israeli photographer with a surprising number of publishing credits to his name already, and is a regular inNational Geographic Traveler (the Israeli edition). The Visual Storyteller is his first eBook with Craft & Vision and it’s an excellent…

  • Art,  eBook,  Photoshop

    Photography Editing | Adobe Lightroom 5 Essential Development

    © 2013 Craft and Vision | Adobe Lightroom 5 Essential Development By Sean McCormacks Lightroom is always evolving and so should your digital editing. Essential Development for Lightroom 5 is a no-holds-barred guidebook that can help you explore, modify, and dig deep into the tools you’ve come to love; as well as, how to make the most of the changes within the new Lightroom 5 upgrade. Lightroom tools can make your post-processing efforts more productive if you know how to wield their power. This eBook will give you the foundation on which to produce the final images your portfolio deserves! The eBook is divided into 20 chapters, focused entirely on the Develop…

  • Book

    Photography | Sharp Shooter | Proven Techniques for Sharper Photographs

    © 2013 Craft and Vision | Sharp Shooter | Proven Techniques for Sharper Photographs By Martin Bailey “Center, Manually Selected, or All Focus Points: Whether your camera has 9 or 61 focus points, you choose which to focus with. Many people favour the center focus point, because it’s often the most accurate and simply because it’s in the middle. Also, using all of your focus points with automatic selection can lead to the camera focusing on the wrong part of the scene. Another option is to either use just one or a small group of focus points, but select something other than the central group. Let’s explore when and why…

  • Photoshop

    Photography Editing | Lightroom 5 | Up to Speed

    © 2013 Craft and Vision | Lightroom 5 Up to Speed For those of you who have been using Lightroom 4 for a while, this will not be a major upgrade but one thing for sure, it will speed up your workflow, much more intuitive and effortlessly compared to LR 4. To those of you who are still using Lightroom 3, then this Lightroom 5 will be quite major  improvement for  you. Anyway this latest eBook from Piet Van Den Eynde is will not discuss in depth about Lightroom 5 but will guide you through to some of the new improvement that Lightroom 5 has to offer. Among the new…

  • Art,  Travel

    PHOTOGRAPH Digital Magazine From Craft and Vision | Issue 3

    © Craft and Vision | PHOTOGRAPH Magazine Issue 3 | A Digital Quarterly Magazine for Creative Photographers “The work of others has much to teach us, not only about making photographs, but also about seeing the world.” – David DuChemin – I believed that to be a great photographer, we need more than just a camera skills, we need more than just a technical skills, we need more knowledge than just to know how to operate our camera’s gears, we need to all rounded photographers and educated photographers if we wanted to go far in this field, but then I know successful in photography doesn’t mean that we can sell our…