If you use Lightroom you will no doubt be familiar with the clarity adjustment slider. This can be used to adjust the midtone contrast of an image. Increase the contrast and the finest details pop out of the image. Reduce the contrast and the image takes on an ethereal haze. In addition to the main … Continue reading Useful Lightroom Technique
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Lightroom Photo Merge Disappointment
If you have ever tried to produce a vertical stitch panorama you will know that it's very difficult when there is a tall building involved. The problem of converging verticals is always present but at you tilt the camera at different angles for each frame in the stitch, the angle of convergence changes. This makes … Continue reading Lightroom Photo Merge Disappointment
Lightroom 6 Panorama Feature
One thing that I love to do is shoot panoramic images. I have an XPan Panoramic film camera and for digital I have a number of tripod attachments that allow me to shoot sequences of images for stitching. What I also do a lot of is shoot “informal panoramic sequences” where I hand hold the … Continue reading Lightroom 6 Panorama Feature
Installing Lightroom 6
Last week saw the launch of Lightroom Creative Cloud 2015 or Lightroom 6 as most people seem to know it as. On paper the upgrade didn’t look too dramatic with the exception of a new “Merge to…” option which could produce HDR images or Panoramic images. Despite this limited benefit I decided to install the … Continue reading Installing Lightroom 6
Friday Image No.54
For this week's image I thought I would share a Panoramic. This was captured as four images using a Canon G16 compact camera. The resulting stitched image is approximately 21" x 12" at 300dpi. The stitching was done using the new Lightroom 6 (Creative Cloud 2015). All I can say is that I'm now addicted … Continue reading Friday Image No.54
Interesting Infrared Process
I have been experimenting with the image from my new Infrared camera and identified a rather interesting look that can be achieved in Nik Color Efex Pro. You can see the finished image above and shown below is the starting image following RAW conversion and white balance correction in Lightroom. The next image shows … Continue reading Interesting Infrared Process
March Giveaway
I have decided to give away my bestselling book in March. On the 14th and 15th March 2015 you will be able to download "Essential Photoshop" for FREE on Amazon (here is the link for Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk). It's intended to take you from knowing very little to having a good grounding in the key … Continue reading March Giveaway
Friday Image No. 48
This week's Friday image comes from my recent trip to the UK Lake District. I post this not because it's a great image but because I started playing around with the RX10 image to see how much detail I could pull out of the image and also how much I could enlarge it by. The … Continue reading Friday Image No. 48
Alien Skin Exposure 7
I'm happy. I just received a free upgrade to my copy of Alien Skin Exposure. I purchased Exposure 6 back in July and Exposure 7 has just been launched. As I purchased my copy later than June I get a free upgrade - fantastic. I'm not experimenting with all the features and new film presets. … Continue reading Alien Skin Exposure 7
Improving the D800
As regular readers of this blog will know I purchased a Nikon D800 a few months back in order to do a real hand on comparison with the Olympus EM5. The first few months of usage have been somewhat mixed and I have found myself reaching for the EM5 on more than one occasion, not … Continue reading Improving the D800
The Lightweight Photographer 