Recently, ON1 announced that its plugin suite — ON1 HDR, ON1 Portrait, ON1 Resize and ON1 Effects — would work with Capture One as native plugins. As someone who occasionally does HDR work, I was excited for the chance to
High dynamic range (HDR) processing opens a whole world of photographic possibilities. There are several outstanding HDR creation tools available today including Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. The question to answer is “when does one shoot HDR brackets?” The “pro” answer
Sharpening helps your picture have a little more punch and can allow details to pop and draw attention. If you sharpen the entire image, however, you’ll end up with visible details, called artifacts, in places where there aren’t details, like
If you’ve had the pleasure of converting film slides of days-gone-by to the digital format, you may have experienced that bittersweet feeling of excitement mingled with a tinge of disappointment upon first viewing the dust, debris and fiber-laden results accumulated
I’ve used every version of Lightroom. I can’t imagine how I could have built a business without it. I spend more time with Lightroom than I do with my wife. I love it. I hate it. Utility Whether you use
At first blush, I am an unusual photographer to write about HDR software. After all, I do night photography, where it typically isn’t used as much. And us night photographers tend to handle wide dynamic range largely by the way
Luminar is my go-to image editing program. but sometimes I need to tone map a single or a set of bracketed images to pull out its dynamic range. This is when I turn to Aurora HDR — software specifically designed
Just what is exposure bracketing? It’s a feature in many DSLR and mirrorless cameras that allows you to take a group of different exposures for the same image. So why is that helpful? In a landscape situation, if the sky
Whether controlling a wide range of contrast in a given scene or highlighting the texture details of a specific subject, High Dynamic Range composition can be one of the most powerful tools in your creative kit. In the video above,
Photoshop features a powerful HDR Toning adjustment which allows you to apply High Dynamic Range effects to a single image. By changing an 8 bit-per-channel (bpc) image to 32 bpc, you will have increased luminance levels and dynamic range. Therefore,
I have developed a new personal project called “I edit your photos stuck at home” based on my post-processing workflow … with YOUR images!
I’ve heard about the AI Sky Replacement feature in Luminar 4 for quite a while. ‘Ho hum,’ I thought. Many disappointments over the years from software makers saying this is going to be the next great thing. But it’s finally
Sharpening helps your picture have a little more punch and can allow details to pop and draw attention. If you sharpen the entire image, however, you’ll end up with visible details, called artifacts, in places where there aren’t details, like
If you’ve had the pleasure of converting film slides of days-gone-by to the digital format, you may have experienced that bittersweet feeling of excitement mingled with a tinge of disappointment upon first viewing the dust, debris and fiber-laden results accumulated
I’ve used every version of Lightroom. I can’t imagine how I could have built a business without it. I spend more time with Lightroom than I do with my wife. I love it. I hate it. Utility Whether you use
At first blush, I am an unusual photographer to write about HDR software. After all, I do night photography, where it typically isn’t used as much. And us night photographers tend to handle wide dynamic range largely by the way
Luminar is my go-to image editing program. but sometimes I need to tone map a single or a set of bracketed images to pull out its dynamic range. This is when I turn to Aurora HDR — software specifically designed
Just what is exposure bracketing? It’s a feature in many DSLR and mirrorless cameras that allows you to take a group of different exposures for the same image. So why is that helpful? In a landscape situation, if the sky
Whether controlling a wide range of contrast in a given scene or highlighting the texture details of a specific subject, High Dynamic Range composition can be one of the most powerful tools in your creative kit. In the video above,
Photoshop features a powerful HDR Toning adjustment which allows you to apply High Dynamic Range effects to a single image. By changing an 8 bit-per-channel (bpc) image to 32 bpc, you will have increased luminance levels and dynamic range. Therefore,
I have developed a new personal project called “I edit your photos stuck at home” based on my post-processing workflow … with YOUR images!
I’ve heard about the AI Sky Replacement feature in Luminar 4 for quite a while. ‘Ho hum,’ I thought. Many disappointments over the years from software makers saying this is going to be the next great thing. But it’s finally
A few weeks ago, I was tasked to photograph various large-scale art installations for ArtPrize Project 1. Historically, ArtPrize has been the organizer of the world’s largest public art competition, taking place in my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI. This
Follow along in the step-by-step tutorial or watch the video. You can download the example files, provided for this tutorial, here. In this tutorial, let’s look at how to use Aurora HDR 2019 and Luminar 3 together. We will start
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