I was lucky enough to get a Fujifilm GFX 50S on loan for two weeks to review in Digital Camera and Professional Photography and I'm really impressed by the tonal range and subtlety it can capture. This became obvious when I started working on a set of shots from a drizzle-swept day on Exmoor. The sky was heavy and flat and there was very little colour, so I decided to try to … [Read more...] about Fine art black and white with the Fujifilm GFX
Adobe
Adobe is the software giant that dominates the whole creative software market place, so it's lucky that it also produces two of the most popular photo editing apps on the market: Lightroom and Photoshop. But these are famous (or infamous) not just for their standard-setting approach to professional photo management and editing, but also because of Adobe's decision to swap to a subscription plan for its software.
8 free Lightroom presets part 4: ‘Moonlite’
Welcome to part 4 of an 8-part series on Lightroom presets and how they work. To go with this I've created 8 free Lightroom presets you can download right now. Lightroom CC/Photography plan trial version and offers Click here for a Dropbox link to the presets. You don't need to have a Dropbox account – just click the 'Download' button at the top right. Depending … [Read more...] about 8 free Lightroom presets part 4: ‘Moonlite’
8 free Lightroom presets part 3: Mistical
Part 3: 'Mistical' Welcome to part 3 of an 8-part series on Lightroom presets and how they work. To go with this I've created 8 free Lightroom presets you can download right now. Lightroom/Photography plan trial version and offers Click here for a Dropbox link to the presets. You don't need to have a Dropbox account – just click the 'Download' button at the top … [Read more...] about 8 free Lightroom presets part 3: Mistical
Shadow and Highlight recovery in Lightroom
It's very easy to lose extreme shadow or highlight detail when you're shooting high-contrast scenes, and that's one of the reasons for shooting raw files – they contain additional highlight detail, especially, that you may be able to bring out during processing. Shadow and highlight recovery is not always possible, but I usually reckon that decent cameras have about 1EV of … [Read more...] about Shadow and Highlight recovery in Lightroom
Lightroom CC review
This is a review of the 'old' Lightroom CC before the Creative Cloud announcements of October 18 2017. For a review of the 'new' Lightroom CC click here. The old Lightroom CC has been rebranded Lightroom Classic and a review will follow shortly. Lightroom/Photography plan trial version and offers Lightroom is Adobe's all-in-one image cataloguing program, raw conversion … [Read more...] about Lightroom CC review
8 free Lightroom presets part 2: Eurochrome
Part 2: 'Eurochrome' Welcome to part 2 of an 8-part series on Lightroom presets and how they work. To go with this I've created 8 free Lightroom presets you can download right now. Lightroom/Photography plan trial version and offers Click here for a Dropbox link to the presets. You don't need to have a Dropbox account – just click the 'Download' button at the … [Read more...] about 8 free Lightroom presets part 2: Eurochrome
Get better Lightroom HDR with the help of HDR Efex Pro
Wednesday Workshops are all about solving tricky little image-editing issues, and here's one to get us started. The Lightroom HDR tools built in are good in their way, but will only get you so far. Yes, you can boost the shadows, reduce the highlights, add some Clarity and Dehaze and maybe a graduated filter for the sky, but you can end up doing a lot of work only getting half … [Read more...] about Get better Lightroom HDR with the help of HDR Efex Pro
8 free Lightroom presets and how they work
Part 1: 'Densia' Welcome to part 1 of an 8-part series on Lightroom editing presets and how they work. To go with this I've created 8 image presets you can download right now. Lightroom/Photography plan trial version and offers Click here for a Dropbox link to the presets. You don't need to have a Dropbox account – just click the 'Download' button at the top … [Read more...] about 8 free Lightroom presets and how they work
Dehaze vs Contrast – now there are two ways to boost images
Images often need a contrast boost to give them a little more life and intensity. It's a perfectly ordinary technique we've been using for years. Tone curve tools or simple contrast sliders are used to push the bright and dark values in the picture further apart to increase their separation (and, ideally, without 'clipping' extreme shadow or highlight detail. But this is a … [Read more...] about Dehaze vs Contrast – now there are two ways to boost images
How to fix glare with perspective correction
Here's an interesting little problem you often get when photographing paintings or other pictures. You get the camera perfectly perpendicular to the picture, only to find you've got horrible glare from the surface of the picture, completely ruining the shot. So here's the problem. I didn't have a polarising filter with me, which might have solved the problem, and this … [Read more...] about How to fix glare with perspective correction
