It’s a great idea to go out to photograph with a plan in mind. But, don’t get so locked into it that you miss out on the opportunities that are around you in abundance. Roll with the weather. Turn your head for your anticipated subject. Work the scene. You’ll came
You can now install your presets into Photoshop, just like you can in Lightroom. This makes Adobe Camera Raw look and functions more like Lightroom Classic than ever! There are two quick methods for installation for installing presets into Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop (there is also a manual
I’m a collector of quotes and share them when I speak to groups. Someone asked me if I had fashioned any quotes myself. Here’s one: “Don’t look at what a subject is, but what it might become.” By Bob Coates. Hence the article today on enhancing an image. Oleander The
A dust booger made it into my camera while photographing the desert. Just so happens I was photographing a bunch of panorama images. What to do? Recently, I showed you a way to clean dust spots on your sensor. Here is an advanced technique to save time if you missed
I had a business portrait client come for a refresh after about a 10+ years hiatus. She said, “I was waiting for someone to say, ‘So are working with your daughter now?’” after looking at her current head shot. A reminder to me to keep my own biz portrait up-to-date.
Many times an image looks nice and it’s… OK. Then, you add a vignette and it comes to life. The value of a vignette becomes apparent. Vignettes have been used in photography almost since the beginning of the craft. Back then adding filters to surround the lens created the vignette.
Adobe has made it easy to select people in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. The Masking Panel helps you achieve precise editing, quickly adjusting skin, teeth, eyes and more. How does it do this? Adobe Camera RAW 15 and Lightroom 12 automatically detect all the people in the photo using
You can learn about my original photo plan in this article. Below this is some of the work that went into processing the panoramic image made during that outing. Specifically, this is about the work on the panorama after assembly using Photomerge controls in Photoshop. Panorama layers After the image
There’s always more than one way to skin a cat. Or, to post-process a high ISO Milky Way photo. In this post I’m going to take a look at using Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) to start, and then invoke ACR as a plugin for additional corrections and modifications. This was
I’ve been a little slow to download the newest version of Adobe’s Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). But I’m glad that I finally got over that and had time to check out some new features. Selection is power in post-production Photographing Sandhill Cranes before dawn can lead to a
In my last article, I shared that even though the Milky Way Galactic Center is below the horizon, you can still capture great images. The Milky Way fills the sky above horizon to horizon. Exposing to the right When making the exposure you want to expose to the right. Also
Many image makers shy away from RAW files because the thinking it makes the image too flat and lifeless. But if they shoot only in jpeg they can leave some quality and options behind. Shoot RAW When shooting RAW you are getting all the information that the sensor can produce.
