I suspect we all come to color image processing the same way, there are three phases we go through. Firstly the “Whack up the contrast” phase, secondly the global adjustments stage and finally the hopefully measured approach where we deploy the tools at our disposal in the way that serves the image best. I’ve been…
The AI Photography paradox put simply is that nobody asked for it but everyone is paying for it! There hasn’t been a subject that has divided the photography community to such an extent since Photoshop. I have next to zero experience of generative AI. I use the healing tool in Photoshop from time to time…
I spent most of last week location scouting in Granada and the white villages refining the routes for the workshops we’re running next April and May. My friend Jerry Webb, who is leading the Granada Street Photography workshop came over and we walked the proposed routes, noting the light and the photo opportunities. Naturally there…
The Three Pillars of Color Grading Successful color processing in DxO PhotoLab depends on the same three pillars of Color that are used in all digital editing systems. Hue, Saturation and Luminance. Stop Press! Use the code ChrisWright15 at checkout to get a 15% discount applied to any DxO purchase Black Friday Offer DxO’s Black…
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…
