Arrival! – Viltrox 33mm f/1.4 for Fuji
After a long three (!) months of waiting from order to delivery, it arrived. It was said to be held up at shipping facility. So far I only have “build” …
Great Photography Quotes
Sage words from some of the best. “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.” — Ansel Adams “Sharpness is a bourgeois …
Why you (probably) don’t need more megapixels
If you’re worried about whether you need more megapixels, I used to be like you; let me help you. You do not need more megapixels. I’ll explain in a somewhat …
Lightroom Enhance Details and Fuji – a winner!
Note: this was written late 2019. Fast-forward to mid-March 2021, Adobe launches “super resolution” – currently only in Adobe RAW and Photoshop. I will review it when it comes to …
Meow Gallery Plugin – wow!
(stock photo) If you’ve taken serious look into galleries for photography, you’ve probably fallen in love with tiled galleries, easily the most attractive way of presenting images. And you might …
John’s Big Note
“John’s Big Note is a very simple plugin to add a big free-form note for your own metadata.” If you’ve worked in Lightroom for any length of time, there’s come …
Killer WordPress Plugins
In addition to photography, I build WordPress websites. Want one? Go to “About” and email me. How I created this site. Plugins: AppearanceNeve themeSmushFooboxWP/LRTiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack FunctionWP Real …
“Chasing” in Lightroom
In construction, an accumulation of small errors can aggregate to create a large catastrophic error. I once heard someone use the word “chasing” to describe this phenomenon. The way to …
Lightroom 25mm f/1.8 lens profile for Hengyijia, Zonlai, Discover, 7artisans
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE See new recommendation below! Hengyijia, Zonlai, Discover, 7artisans – different brandings of what is reportedly the same basic lens made at the same China factory. There are …
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 …