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This article is dedicated to high dynamic range photography, or HDR photography. This is a powerful and useful technique to maximise the dynamic range you can capture when photographing a highly contrasted scene. As a photographer, the only place where you have full control over the light is in your…
Times they are a-changin’. And so is Adobe Lightroom. Before the creative cloud, we had Lightroom 6. This was its own stand-alone program. One download, one payment and that was it. Now, it has become a little confusing. I had gotten used to version 6, and then along came two…
There will be a time when you will want to have a blurred background rather than your original image. Maybe you’re background is distracting, or unfavourable. This is particularly true when shooting in a crowd. A sporting event or carnival will have spectators and a busy background. Both of these…
For most food photographers, Adobe Lightroom is the post-processing program of choice. Even for beginners, it’s relatively intuitive and easy to use. Lightroom is excellent as a global editor. Its strength lies in its ability to make adjustments globally to the whole image in a way that is simple and…
Adobe Lightroom Vs Photoshop is a long-standing debate in the photographic world. One of the biggest philosophical questions to date in digital photography. What is it about them that makes them so different, when they are both software designed to edit your images? Photoshop has been the standard for image…
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…