Infra Red and Silver Gelatin Effects in Lightroom
Last week I was in Siem Reap and met the photographer John McDermott who has been based there for over 15 years. His two galleries – one next to the FCC Siem Reap and the other in the bustling center of town – show his collection of hand printed Silver Gelatin and Infra Red pictures [...]
Step by Step Lightroom workflow for Black and White image
In the previous post, 3 pictures but 1 Voice, I shared how I have been reviewing not just which images I envision, or how I use the camera to capture that image but also how I am rethinking what and how I post-process. It will help you in reading this post to have read the [...]
3 pictures but 1 voice
I can’t remember who said it – was it the eponymous David duChemin? – that there were 3 pictures that happened every time you shoot an image: the one you conceive in your head (the masterpiece); the one you actually take with the camera and the one you process. Experience and skill is of course [...]
How to create order from disorder through split toning
I am slowly – all too slowly – working my way through the 5000+ images that I took in Italy earlier this month during the Italy Within The Frame workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, and one thing is for certain is it has helped me to optimize my Lightroom workflow! Most of the [...]
Awesome iPhone Camera Apps
My thanks to Loren Roberts in Santa Monica for alerting me to these two great iPhone apps that have transformed my view of the usefulness of the iPhone Camera. Historically I believed that a combination of the lack of zoom and low number of megapixels consigned the iPhone to a snap camera – and not [...]
Adobe Lightroom 3.0 Beta available
Adobe announced the availability of Lightroom 3.0 as a public beta this week. Of course being a Beta it is not the finished product, and usually with Adobe the final version will ship with a load more tweaks and enhancements than in the Beta. Scott Kelby has written a detailed review on his blog, and [...]
Embedding Lightroom galleries in WordPress posts and pages
Those of you following this blog from the start will know that I had struggled initially to get multiple Lightroom albums and galleries to display correctly across multiple browsers. If you go down the route of creating your own HTML page for your portfolio, and then linking to this from your WordPress blog, then you [...]
Creating stronger images through visual mass
The recent release of “Drawing the Eye – Creating Stronger Images through Visual Mass” – is David DuChemin’s third part of his ebook series. This one is equally as good as the other two and continues David’s theme that “Why” rather than” How” is the question to be asking as you shoot pictures. “Drawing the [...]
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