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Standing in awe under the starry night sky is only 50% of the fun in astrophotography. What’s the other 50%? Post-processing photos, of course. Make no mistakes: if you do astrophotography, you must learn how to edit your images. Problem is, this editing is often a long, complex and rather…
Even years after the digital photo has been developed, people still ask me if a for landscape photography tips photo on editing. And a common questions is whether a photo should be edited or not. Yes, it should! A camera is merely a tool. Yes, it’s a good tool, but I…
Our article on What is Lens Distortion? goes through the various types of lens distortion and gives you an in-depth explanation on why it appears in photography. Sometimes, you might even be looking for lens distortion. If you’re photographing with a fisheye lens, for example, distortion is what you want. But what…
Editing street photography has been a part of this niche for a long time. Most of us street photographers draw inspiration from some of the best photographers in the world, such as Robert Frank, Bruce Gilden or, more recently, Eric Kim. And we’re not the only ones. Ever since photographers…
Capturing and sharing full colour images may be easier, but black and white photography continues to attract fans. The one thing I’m always asked about it is how to edit black and white photography. Black and white photography forces you to disregard the original colours. Instead, you have to concentrate…
Lightroom presets are a great way to work through your images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. They are adjustments made to an image and then saved for future use. Some photographers or software manufacturers create these presets and offer them to the world. Some can be very expensive, and others are…
Adobe Lightroom has a very good organisation system. You can upload thousands of photographs and arrange them as you wish, in Lightroom collections. One area we will look at today is making collections and smart collections. We will discuss what makes these different and when you should use one, and not…
Manual focus lenses became Automatic and now motion-tracking devices. Images are captured, manipulated and shared with millions of people around the globe. All this at the click of a button. Photographically, the analogue world only had access to film. This had to be worked and processed in a dark room.…
In our previous article on the Develop Module in Adobe Lightroom, you learnt about the six tone controls on the basic panel. This article will discuss the colour temperature and ‘presence’ controls. Rendering True Colours A digital camera processes your photos in terms of separate red, green and blue images that…
What are Presets? Presets are settings that photographers, companies and photographic manufacturers create. These are imported for use in Adobe Lightroom. They sit on the side of the Develop Module within Lightroom, waiting for you to apply them to your images. You can use them to change colour into black…