Sharpen AI by Topaz Labs – a Winner!
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Kiane, a lovely Minneapolis-based model. One of my favorite shots of her was spoiled because I missed the focus. (Note to … Read more
Lightroom & post-processing
Einstein & Monroe
You may have seen this illusion. Look at it close-up, and it is Albert Einstein. Back away a few feet and it is Marilyn Monroe. What is going on here? … Read more
Lightroom Enhance Details and Fuji – a winner!
Introduction Almost all my Fuji image-gurus believe the images produced using Lightroom’s new Enhance Details feature are as good, if not better than any other solution, and I’ve come to … Read more
John’s Big Note
A simple plugin to add a free-form note to your Lightroom metadata.
“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 … Read more
“Chasing” in Lightroom
Color adjustment theory
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 … Read more
Accidents will happen
…some of them happy ones
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 … Read more
Four ways of looking at a building
When you look at these images of a building, each taken at a different time of day, notice the different quality of light. How does our mind see times of … Read more
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 … Read more
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” … Read more
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 … Read more