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Tim Parkin

Tim Parkin is a British landscape photographer, writer, and editor best known as the co-founder of On Landscape magazine, where he explores the art and practice of photographing the natural world. His work is thoughtful and carefully crafted, often focusing on subtle details and quiet moments in the landscape rather than dramatic vistas. Alongside his photography and writing, he co-founded the Natural Landscape Photography Awards, serves as a judge for other international competitions. Through all these projects, Parkin has become a respected and influential voice in contemporary landscape photography.

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I'm looking at post processing photographs with haze or mist today at the request of Kostas Petrakis. The picture above isn't particularly great but it's as extreme an example as I could find for use in demonstrating my techniques. The picture below shows the whole picture followed by a sample from the mid-ground where you can use a slider to see the before and after shots.

In the video I'll be using techniques such as local contrast enhancement, shadow highlight, colour balance and component curves and finally an interesting trick with unsharp mask. I'll be going into how each of these techniques work (in possibly a little to much detail but you can skip ahead because of our new streaming video server).

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