After a lengthy model shoot, my wife and I may well have over 1000 images to review, so I would be completely lost without Lightroom – I have had it from the first version, and upgraded quickly when 3 came out having been very pleased with the beta.Workflow wise: I import from the memory card …
How will our art evolve when we have 3d, omni-focus, very large dynamic range, high-speed video cameras rather than single focus, narrow dynamic range, still (and sometimes hd video) cameras? The development of omni-focus cameras (that is, cameras that can keep everything in sharp focus at all times, with no focusing required) has been talked …
I make no secret of my enjoyment of photography. I readily acknowledge that I am no great practitioner (too much haste, no natural eye), but I enjoy it. I never got into video and on the whole I think for most memories a photograph is more powerful than a video. Of course, a well produced …
On a photography group on linkedin someone asked for advice on what settings worked best for portraiture. I replied thus: You have great advice, and a wonderful example (which I have made a favourite on flickr).Let me add some basics, apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you know all this already, but just …
Some advice given to a model who was a little too far away to come to me for a portfolio shoot. Key to starting your portfolio is to get some good basic shots showing you in a few simple poses.I am going to assume that you have access to a basic compact camera, something a …
Lina Originally uploaded by DreamShots I follow several photographers on flickr, and DreamShots is one of my favourites. He creates shots with fantastic lighting, great poses, and superb emotion. Even when taking very simple concepts, such as here, he executes them brilliantly (and I wish I had thought of this). In princple, such art should …
There seems to be a large number of photographers who object to the use of Photoshop and the like to adjust photographic images. There are clubs where such practices are banned for competition submission. Given that RAW images require a little post-processing to be usable (and not everyone is happy for this post processing to …
On a group on Facebook, a beginner posted links to some nice vivid family photos and asked how he could do the same. I posted the reply below. His own camera is a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Yes, you can achieve the same sort of results with your camera. The Nikon …
Revisiting the raw v. jpeg debate, a key difference is that the raw file is what the sensor captured without any processing (other than some compression, if selected) being applied whereas a jpeg (or TIFF) is what the camera itself post-processed from the sensor data in accordance with various camera processing settings. The preview on …
Extracted from I Love Photography forum on Facebook Note that jpg (jpeg) files are 8 bit. Always. They use 8 bits for each of the three colours: R(ed), G(reen), B(lue). That provides for a greater range than the human eye can see, so if you are happy with what the camera produces when it converts …
