You probably know by now that I enjoy infrared photography. While this post is shot with an infrared-converted camera, I’m sharing a technique to get everything in focus in your image. A super depth of field is achieved working this way. Capture Using a long lens to compress a scene
The Geminids meteor shower is the quintessential time for capturing the streaks from the heavens. This year, it was clear and the show was spectacular. I photographed from 9:15 PM on the 13th to 5 AM on the 14th of December. Then the fun begins gathering the strike images for
Sometimes I think it’s because it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. The reality is that I choose to work with one system of Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) rather than try to learn a newer program and workflow such as Lightroom. The old saying applies,
With the Photoshop Virtual Summit now concluded, it’s the perfect time to check out all the courses at your leisure. But you can only do so with a VIP Access Pass! Want a sneak peak at what to expect? Join Photofocus publisher Rich Harrington as he unlocks the Adobe Bridge
Adding a star rating to an image is a quick way to quickly sort through your images. Each image can be given 1–5 stars, but what’s your system? How do you rate your images? Adding star ratings Adding a star rating to an image is really easy. With the image
Not every part of an image has to be absolutely perfect. There are still a lot of lessons to be learned from this slightly less-than-perfect image. When I proposed the processing of this image for a tutorial one of the comments was, “…there’s also a lot of blur in the
In this ThinkTAPLearn video, instructor Rich Harrington shows us best practices to organize your media for a video project. He talks about using external drives, as well as some best approaches for organizing media using macOS Finder and Adobe Bridge. Want to learn more about editing video? Check out Rich’s
Trying to record sound with your video? Having a good microphone is nearly worthless if you don’t put it in the right position. The closer you can get the mic to the source of the audio the stronger the signal. Skimp on taking the time to position and test your mics
One of the key functions of Adobe Bridge is renaming your digital media. This can come in handy with digital camera files because they are likely named with a combination of letters and a progressive numbering system.Eventually these names and numbers repeat themsleves. Fortunately, Bridge makes it easy to rename
A triptych is three images that share a common theme displayed as a single piece. In this video I’ll be making the simplest form of this by displaying three images in equally sized and arranged rectangles. In this video I’ll cover; Opening multiple images from Bridge Changing the units of
There are times when, at the very outset of editing, you’ll know the dimensions of the image you want to create. In this post we’ll take a look at the Workflow Options in Adobe Camera Raw that can set this out for you. What’s Wrong With Cropping? Nothing. The Crop
Naming your images on import is good practice but theres times when youd like to rename a batch of images after import, maybe youve whittled down the images and would like them to be sequentially numbered or, and I admit this happens far too frequently, your images are named Enter
