They say you can’t teach an old pony new tricks, but I don’t believe that’s true. Personally, in the last couple years, I’ve learned to dance, some Japanese, and how to develop film. Recently, I also decided to start learning to play the piano. To give you a bit of background, you have to know that I never studied music …
The Lightroom Catalog: Storage Considerations
This is the second article in my series about the Adobe Ligthroom catalog. You can find the previous articles here: The Lightroom Catalog: the Basics Where Should You Store Your Catalogs? One of the questions about the Lightroom catalog I get asked most frequently is certainly: Where do I store my catalog? In order to answer this question, I will …
The Lightroom Catalog: the Basics
Many people who are using Adobe Lightroom are confused about the concept of a catalog and have many questions about it. I keep getting questions myself, so I thought I’d write a series of articles to hopefully provide some answers and demystify some of its most obscure features and confusing aspects. Lightroom vs. Lightroom Classic What follows is relevant to …
Free Online Webinar: The Making of ‘Rainclouds Over Venice’ – From Idea to Final Image
This is a photo I took during my last visit to Venice. I had taken the vaporetto to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in the Venetian Lagoon, hoping to get a few great sunset photos. Actually the day had been for the most part gloomy, but the forecast said there would be openings in the cloud cover, so I went …
The Making of “The Devil’s Bridge”
This is a photo of the Stari Most (Old Bridge), a remarkable example of Ottoman architecture that links the two halves of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by spanning the Neretva river. The bridge was rebuilt after being bombed during the Bosnian war in 1993, together with most of the city. Shooting I took this photo at night, under heavy clouds. I …
The Making Of “The Sky Over Berlin”
Many times, when I show a photo, I get asked how I made it, so I decided to share some of my favorite shooting and processing techniques with my readers. This is the first article in a series that I plan to carry on indefinitely and that I am calling “The Making Of”. Each week I hope to be able to …
5 Tips for Processing Images on the Road
by Christian Høiberg Most of us who enjoy landscape photography also have a passion for travel. In fact, the lines between landscape photographer and travel photographer can be thin. In this day and era, where there’s a constant pressure to deliver content on a regular basis, it’s not always that we can wait for several weeks until we’re back home …
6 Reasons to Use Lightroom to Process Landscapes
by Andrew S. Gibson Photoshop CC, Silver Efex Pro 2, Aurora HDR, ON1 Photo 10 – the list of software available to process landscape photos seems to get longer every year. With so many companies competing for your attention it can be hard to know which software you should use to process your images. Then there’s the fear of missing …
Lightroom Tip: Set The Copyright For The New Year
It is very important that our images are correctly labeled with copyright and contact information for purposes of intellectual property protection and Adobe Lightroom makes it easy to do so, by means of Metadata Presets that are automatically applied when importing new photos to a catalog. One image property that should always be automatically set is the IPTC Copyright field and …
Revisiting the Ligthtroom Rapid Editing System
A few days ago, I reviewed here Viktor Elizarov’s Rapid Editing System for Adobe Lightroom, having used it to process an image of mine. I have to admit I gave Viktor’s presets a hard time, using an image that was quite overexposed to start with. Having seen my review, Viktor kindly offered to reprocess my image and here are the …
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