Category: Lightroom
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The Third Sweep Through Lightroom
Prior to Lightroom I used Aperture. Had I stuck to the cameras I used at the time, the stand-alone program would still be attached to my computer and doing most of what I need. I also flirted briefly with Silkypix, but that was an oriental mystery ride through an oddly-coloured linguistic tunnel. i shall not…
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Do Not Deride The Preset
But do not allow it to corral you into a pen – break out on your own sometimes. People sometimes pooh-pooh presets in popular programs or equipment. They see that a plug-in for the image editor can generate a series of ” looks ” and summarily reject them all. They are too pure, too smart,…
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The Dark Lightroom
Or is it the other way round? Whoever decided to name the Adobe picture editing and organisation program ” Lightroom ” should be rewarded for the rest of their life. And kept in a vault away from the competition. It is such an appropriate reversal of what we all knew in the analog era that…
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When You Hot, You Hot
And if you’ve had years to warm that stove up, all the better. The Middle East dance show business is a pretty constant thing here in Perth – professionals do gigs at restaurants to either the delight or horror of the eaters – amateurs do dance shows. There is an admixture of the pros in…
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The Sliding Scale
Every control on my computer’s various editing programs seems to have a sliding scale. Take the Adobe Camera Raw portion that pops up as an example – there are a number of divisions of choice for all the criteria, but the are all sliding scales – some from 0 to 100% and some with a…
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About Yea By Yea.
And that’s likely to be a metric yea these days, unless you live in the US. The formats that we take our pictures in have pretty well stablised to a few sensors and a few camera systems: 4:3…micro 4/3 size. 2:3 …APS-C or full-fram ( 35mm equiv ) sensors. 4:5…medium format digital sensors. 16:9 …sensors…
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How Much Muscle Memory Do We Need?
I have also heard this topic treated under ” motor memory ” and while there are probably scientific differences, for practical purposes in photography they are about the same. I’m coming to grips with the concept in the increasing use of the Loupedeck Plus editing console for Lightroom and Photoshop. I have not enabled the…
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This is Good Stuff, Eh?
My new Loupedeck Plus has been plugged in for just three days and already it has changed the way I post-process images. It bids fair to make changes all the way through the chain of choices – right to the camera I pick up to do a job. Here’s the way the thinking works: I…
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The Trade Show Trap
I was delighted to see a piece of equipment at our recent photo trade show – a Loupedeck control panel for editing photos. I was equally delighted when two friends showed up who might have been interested in it – I directed them down to the table where the wholesaler was showing the deck. They…
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Dehaze, Boss! Dehaze…!
I don’t have a little guy in a white suit bustling around me, but I do have a very useful helper in my Lightroom and Photoshop programs – though up until now I have may not appreciated it. I speak of the ” dehaze ” slider. The heading image and the following ones were taken…