So at the beginning of October Affinity startled the world of photography by withdrawing all products, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher from sale via their website and promising to make an announcement on October 30th that would change the way we did creativity forever. Naturally this announcement spawned feverish speculation, it was the…
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…
The problem with planning landscape photography expeditions is that invariably it comes down to the weather. It’s become a truism that four trips out of five yield only disappointment for many photographers. If only there were some more reliable method of predicting weather phenomena that didn’t involve geeking out on obscurely formatted meteorological data –…
I’ve never really bothered much with the in camera picture styles on my Canon cameras, after all I shoot in RAW so it makes no difference, right? The picture style settings on Canon cameras applies parameters affecting Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation and Color Tone to the jpeg displayed on the back of the camera, and to…
In this guide to Milky Way photography, I’m going to explain how you can create good, clear, well-defined photographs of the Milky Way with a DSLR or Mirrorless Camera, a wide angle lens, image stacking software and Adobe Photoshop. Introduction The aim of this guide is to demonstrate how to produce great pictures of the…
This review of the Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS was performed in mostly real life conditions with the addition of some studio work to measure the lens sharpness at various focal lengths and apertures. Video Gear Acquisition Syndrome There is a pattern called the Gartner Hype Cycle that I first encountered in the IT industry…
