Accidents will happen

Working on an image I’d taken of some trees, I imported two slightly different Lightroom treatments of that image into Photoshop. My thinking was I might blend them to get something between the two treatments. …

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Forget the rule of thirds…

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” – Edward Weston The rule of thirds suggests that a well-composed …

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Lightroom Tools

WordPress/Lightroom integration WP/LR Sync – for syncing Lightroom to WordPress Lightroom hardware MIDI2LR: An Open Source App That Lets You Use Any MIDI Controller in Lightroom https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/ There’s really no way to describe the feeling …

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Ansel Adams and Lightroom

Ansel Adams developed the Zone System as a tool to help film photographers adjust the tonality and dynamics “seen” by the camera (and envisioned by the photographer) to the “light-space” of the finished photograph. By …

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Ansel Adams and Lightroom

Ansel Adams developed the Zone System as a tool to help film photographers adjust the tonality and dynamics “seen” by the camera (and envisioned by the photographer) to the “light-space” of the finished photograph. By …

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Lightroom Vibrance

Anyone who’s spent a little time with Vibrance in Adobe Lightroom’s Development module knows what a great tool it is. It is “smart saturation”; which is to say it saturates unevenly,  raising the saturation levels …

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“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”

“He had his little Leica,” [fashion photographer Helmut] Newton remembers, “and he simply would point and shoot.” Since Cartier-Bresson’s hand isn’t as steady as it used to be, some of the pictures were a bit …

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