Best Camera Bag? It’s a shootout! Why waste time talking about the Billinghams. Domkes and Manfrottos of this world when everyone knows the best camera bags are made by Think Tank? It’s not a case of which is the best camera bag. It’s rather a question of which is the best Think Tank camera bag!…
Those of you who follow my Twitter account will know that I bought the Rokinon SP 14mm f/2.4 lens for Astrophotography a couple of weeks ago. Since when we’ve had more or less 100% cloud cover in the UK. C’est la vie! Astrophotography images will follow once I get back to Spain. Rokinon vs. Samyang…
Converting images to monochrome is never as straightforward as it might appear. In this post we look at methods of achieving the monochrome look and answer the question “Is Silver Efex Pro the best Black and White Photography Plugin ever?” First the disclaimer. I am affiliated with a few carefully selected companies whose products I…
Library Management in DxO Photolab 4 Update: DxO Photolab 5 is the more recent version of the program – DxO Photolab 5 Review In this post, I’ll be looking at Library Management in DxO Photolab 4 in detail. I’ll explain how it works in comparison with Adobe Lightroom and talk about why you might want…
Light on the Landscape Light on the Landscape by William Neill is a book I’ve been meaning to get to for a while now. It kept cropping up in conversation with other photographers and slowly crept into my consciousness until this Christmas when miraculously it appeared underneath the Christmas Tree. I must have mentioned it…
I’ve been looking forward to writing a Luminar AI review, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I could lay my hands on a copy of the software. Now I’ve had a chance to see what it can do, and I have to say, I’m impressed. Disclaimer: We are affiliated with Skylum Software, so if you…
Is Picfair worth the money? I’ve sold prints through Alamy and Smugmug over the years and although I like Alamy and have sold quite a few pictures there, I abandoned my Smugmug subscription about four years ago due to the price. It simply wasn’t worth the money. The galleries on my website are not e-commerce…
Note: The current version of PhotoLab is 5. Read the more recent DxP PhotoLab 5 Review for up to date information. How good is DxO Photolab 4? This review covers most of the new features released on 21 October 2020 and takes you through the complete workflow used to create the image at the top…