New USA Gallery

By On 21/07/2014

I’ve added a new photo gallery with images of my latest trip to Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park in the USA.

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Glacier Vista B&W print

By On 18/07/2014

One of the advantages of digital photography is that photographers do not have to decide upon the media at the moment they are shooting. You can shoot in color, like almost every digital camera does, and decide to make a B&W version at a later stage. The disadvantage is that you could completely forget to [...]

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Access Lightroom when subscription ends

By On 11/07/2014

As most photographers know, Adobe has two payment options for using Lightroom. You can take a perpetual license as always, and you can get Lightroom as part of the Creative Cloud subscription model (attractive in combination with Photoshop CC). However, many photographers fear that they won’t be able to access Lightroom (and so their images) [...]

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Vertical ‘panorama’

By On 20/06/2014

Most photographers have taken a panorama photo by means of ‘stitching’ several images. They use Photoshop, specialised panorama software or even the built-in option in their iPhone. We normally take horizontal panoramas, but have you ever considered a vertical panorama? You can use this if you need more wide angle than you have available.

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Tilt-Shift adapter ordered

By On 01/06/2014

Having some older medium format lenses can give you an unexpected benefit. Because I am writing an article about adapters, I searched the internet for different types of adapters and I found this rather unknown German company. They produce a tilt-shift adapter to use Pentax 645 lenses on Canon EOS, and I just [...]

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Photoshop tip: Plant a tree

By On 22/05/2014

Did you know that you can generate trees directly from Photoshop CC? It’s a hidden feature of the ‘Fill’ menu. Open an image and add a new empty layer on top of it (so you can resize and move the tree after you’ve generated it). Go to ‘Edit – Fill’ and choose ‘Pattern’ as the [...]

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