Now-a-days with increased use of digital cameras its far easier to post-process images without having to know your chemicals and the sometimes arcane skill set you needed to do similar things in the dark room. However just because you can Photoshop your images to within an inch of their life doesn’t mean you should!
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There are two laws currently going through approval in the UK both of which look to have severe implications for UK Photographers.
The first is part of the Digital Economy Bill and relates to orphan works usage rights, which will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified. Assuming most people are [...]
The Digital Photography School site has posted an article on “An Introduction to Creative Commons Licensing for Your Photographs” and whilst its a useful resource and I respect the work the Creative Commons organisation is doing, I have problems with marking any of my images in this way.
From both personal experience and that of my [...]
See what I did there? No… well read on. You will…
Firstly, there’s a great write up over on the X= blog about why you should import and convert your photos to Adobe’s DNG format. Definitely worth a read.
Secondly, apologies for it being a little quite round here of late. I’ve been working on a new [...]
Scott Kelby has just put up a great post on 10 things he would tell newbie Lightroom users. I’ve listed the ten points below, but would suggest you follow the link to check out the details and further information he provides on each.
Use Solo Mode To Tame All Those Panels
Use Collections instead of Folders
Store all [...]
The book by David DuChemin called “Within the Frame” is about finding and expressing your photographic vision, specifically where people, places, and cultures are concerned. The book on its own is great and I can highly recommend it.
However I recently discovered that after producing the book David recorded a series of podcasts for peachpit press [...]
The X= Blog has posted the first of a two-parter on using the grayscale sliders in Lightroom.
The article covers how to convert a colour image to grayscale in Lightroom and how to use the sliders inside the develop module to best effect to alter the relevant brightness of just specific colours.
One of the more interesting [...]
Over on the Flickr Travel Photography group, a simple question on tips to get the best travel shots turned into a discussion on the subject of appearing in your travel shots.
Some of the group members thought it funny seeing tourists positioning themselves in the shot of a famous landmark or beautiful scenery. Others were completely [...]
So another Digital Photography School post (yes I know!) however this time DPS has posted an article on 7 steps to becoming a confident photographer.
I’m not going to go into each step in detail (the links below) however these are the steps:
Keep a notebook
Shoot frequently
Shoot in different conditions
Set goals
Read
Ask questions
Change your perspective
I like that last [...]
Read the rest of this post »I’ve just read a great article over on the xequals+blog which supports how I’ve been working with my photos for a while now.
Their basic premise is that if you shoot in RAW and have Lightroom, then you shouldn’t really need to use Photoshop more than 10% of the time.
Lightroom is designed to adjust pixels in [...]
