Think before you Photoshop

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! Digital [...]

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UK Photography Impacted By New Laws

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 [...]

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Copyright on your images

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 [...]

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Importing DNG and Importing Light

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 [...]

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10 Things for New Lightroom Users

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 [...]

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