Photographing mountain landscapes requires a lot more than a camera, a couple of lenses and a modicum of fitness, this expedition involved a 21km hike into the mountains of the Sierra Guejar, to say I’m exhausted is understating it, this was a seriously challenging trip with a cumulative climb (and descent) of 1000m – in…
I’ve been researching locations for photo safaris we are running next year and last week’s trip to the Gorafe desert set me thinking about the ways that our favourite focal lengths can trap us and actually get in the way of the story. Storytelling in Landscape Photography is an art form in itself, by definition…
This week we made a trip to the desert in Gorafe to take photographs and scout locations for an upcoming Desert Photography workshop we’re running in late September. More about that presently, but look out for the Eight Peaks Photography website, launching in May 2025. This is where we will be running our workshops and…
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…
The latest release from Affinity Photo 2.6 has created something of a shockwave in the photographic community. The AI Selection tools in Affinity Photo 2.6 are extraordinary in three senses. Firstly, they do not upload your images to Affinity so your IP remains your IP and you won’t find it being used to train AI…
The vexed question of which RAW processing software is best for me is one for which I have no definitive answer. This article assesses in as scientific a manner as I can muster, the suitability of Photo Processing Software that I have significant experience of. These are, in no particular order: DxO Valentines Day Offer…
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…