Johan W. Elzenga
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Cape Town photo gallery

By Johan W. Elzenga On 17/05/2012

I still needed to add a full Cape Town photo gallery. That’s now done. The gallery contains twenty photos of our last trip to this beautiful city.

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TIPA photo contest

By Johan W. Elzenga On 16/05/2012

TIPA has launched an online photo contest, with 10,000 euro in prize money. Amateurs can win 4,000 euro for the best single picture, professionals can win 6,000 euro for the best series of three images. More information at the TIPA website.

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Photoshop Tip: Synchronizing adjustments in Camera RAW

By Johan W. Elzenga On 13/05/2012

Most people use Adobe’s raw-converter Camera RAW with one image at a time, but did you know you can use it with a series of images and synchronize the adjustments from one image to all the others? That saves you an enormous amount of time if you need to adjust many similar images, especially if [...]

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Indoor panoramas

By Johan W. Elzenga On 02/05/2012

I’ve added a page about 360 degrees indoor panorama photos. 360 degrees panorama photos are a great way of showing the inside of a hotel or lodge room, but they suffer from the same high contrast problems as normal photos of interiors. If the interior is correctly exposed, the rooms are completely washed out and [...]

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Buying a camera isn’t a soccer match

By Johan W. Elzenga On 25/04/2012

The web seems to be full of comparison tests of the latest Nikon versus the latest Canon camera, almost like it’s a soccer game and we need to know who wins this year’s championship. For a small number of photographers, those who spend more time debating the superiority of their brand in the camera forums [...]

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Lightroom Catalog back-up

By Johan W. Elzenga On 22/04/2012

During my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom seminars I’m often asked how frequently one should make a back-up of the Lightroom catalog, as can be set in the Catalog Settings. My answer may surprise you, because it is “never”. Of course I do not mean that you shouldn’t make back-ups of your Lightroom catalog, but I don’t [...]

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