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 …
Gordon Laing’s “In Camera”, a Review
If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that I consider post-processing an integral part of my creative workflow. As a consequence, I tend to shoot RAW files, without paying much attention to how the image looks on the LCD on the back of my camera, knowing that I will almost always tweak it in post to …
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 …
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 …
The Lightroom Rapid Editing System
I have to admit that until recently I was not a big fan of presets and plugins for Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Having used Lightroom for many years, I had developed a workflow that let me very quickly apply some general corrections and determine whether a photo merits further fine tuning. I will also only resort to Photoshop on rare …
The Making Of “On The Edge Of Darkness”
On The Edge Of Darkness is the title of this image that I took on the last evening of my recent family vacation. It was shot just before sunset in Rovinj, Croatia, one of the most charming towns of the Adriatic coast. Even though it rivals in beauty with the more popular Dubrovnik and Trogir, Rovinj (or Rovigno, if you prefer …
My Workflow For Natural-Looking HDR Photos
High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) has a bit of a bad rap, as it’s been widely abused to create surreal, overprocessed, highly saturated images that do not resemble reality at all. This bad rap is undeserved, though, as HDR can be used to effectively capture a larger dynamic range that would be possible without using it. I don’t refrain from …