I’ve recently begun to take my macro photography more seriously, or at least more often and took out a year’s subscription to Helicon Focus with the intention of seeing how much better it is for macro, than Photoshop. In this post I’m going to take us all the way through the process, from shooting using…
How Black & White Strikes a Different Chord (McCullin Method + Silver Efex) It’s a curious thing but the photographers who have been most inspirational in my own photography which is largely but not exclusively shot in color, have been to a man (or woman) black and white photographers. Black and White Strikes a Different…
Frequency separation is a technique used a lot by portrait photographers to clear blemishes from skin. However the technique is also useful for landscape photography. I learned Frequency Separation for Landscape Photography in Adobe Photoshop and the Photoshop implementation tells you exactly why the technique is so obscure. It is complicated and requires deep technical…
The problem with RAW editors is that the line between correction and creativity has been blurred to a point where new photographers have no real grasp of what a RAW image actually is and what happens to it in RAW processors such as Adobe Lightroom, DxO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo. I’ve taken an interest in…
Refining selections with Affinity 2.6 is a matter of understanding the options available on the tool that you use to create the selections and in many cases, including the new machine learning assisted tools, using the Refine Tool. This post extends the more generalised review – AI Selection Tools in Affinity Photo 2.6 Video This…
Overview Ignore for a moment the concept of Basic and Intermediate Photo Editing with Adobe Lightroom. When you come down to it, what we want from our images are actually quite a small number of qualities. These qualities can be achieved with almost any camera made in the last decade and, whisper it quietly, almost…
A surprisingly large number of photographers shy away from Layers and Masks because they are perceived as complex and confusing. My ongoing experience with Layers and Masks in Affinity Photo 2 reveals a surprising truth. They are not confusing at all, in fact I’d say as a long time Photoshop user that Layers and Masks…
I’ve been using Lee Filters for over ten years now and in terms of quality I’ve found them immense. However I’ve recently changed over to Kase Filters, the circular, magnetic filters that simply clip onto the front of the lens adapter by magnetic force alone. No unwieldy filter holder and no light getting in around…
Autumn in Europe is the time the colours get vivid and the landscape looks its absolute best. Creating better Autumn photography is a matter of capturing those vivid hues. In this article we’re going to explore how that can easily be achieved. Video Polarising Filters The absolute best way to really make Autumn colours pop…