Using Stack Mode for Smart Objects in Photoshop – by Milos Brkic

Presented on February 4, 2021.

Have you ever wanted to remove people or cars from a busy site, yet there was always someone inside your framed composition? The technique I discuss here will allow you to do that by taking multiple shots and using Smart Objects and their Stack Mode in Photoshop. There are other uses for this technique as well, such as:

• Removing moving objects from a scene
• Creating long exposure effect in daylight photos (e.g., from movie clip frames or time lapse series)
• Noise reduction in astrophotography (and other low light situations)
• Other artistic effects

Click on  Using Smart Objects And StackMode to see how to do it. 

Here are just two examples from the presentation:

    Street with people                                                     Street with people removed

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Snowflakes 101 – A Beginner’s Guides to Capturing Snowflakes

This Tech Talk was presented on January 21, 2021 by Kersti Meema. The following is a summary of what was presented and is intended to get you started on photographing snowflakes. 

What you need:

• Camera with macro lens (or lens with macro capability)
• Remote trigger
• Tripod
• Glass plate (the glass from an old picture frame works well – cover edges in duct tape)
• Falling snow! Temperatures of -8 ^oC to -5^oC work well.
• Extension tubes (optional)
• Sharpening software – I used Topaz Sharpening AI (optional)

How to:    Click on:  Snowflakes 101 to see the PowerPoint Presentation with all the images. 

LET IT SNOW!

I was delighted to learn that an article with photographs that I submitted to the magazine Nature Photographer was accepted and published in the Summer/Early Autumn issue. The article entitled “Going on a Moose Safari” describes my adventures photographing moose in Algonquin Park in June of 2018 and includes four of my images from that weekend.

This year at “Spectra”, part of the annual CONTACT photography festival, I presented a series of four resin cast images mounted on wood panels. The show, which ran between November 11 – 22 at Gallery 1313 on Queen Street West, featured the work of 14 artists who are members of the Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. 

In a time when things are deliberately overexposed, I find myself continuously returning to those aspects that are often hidden, my images making visible what is overlooked. Throughout this series, I invite the viewer to move into a space of gentle energy. As almost everything reflects light, I use photographic processes to reveal an ethereal but lively essence of momentary dispersions of light on various surfaces. They are all different and the living shapes created by the reflections produce a unique experience that requires one to look more closely and deeply.