Sometimes sharp focus front to back is not achievable straight out of the camera. Combining focus stacking and exposure blending to achieve vibrant realistic colours and sharp focus with Affinity Photo is much easier than you might think. The principles I explain here will work just as well in Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop and will deliver tack…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video on YouTube in which I mentioned focus stacking. I’ve had a few questions about it and a friend mentioned that he intended to use a combination of DxO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo instead of my favoured workflow (for layer based editing) of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop….
Just got back from a trip to the Costa del Luz, we found a fantastic location called Los Canos de Meca, a tiny village on the beach, our apartment was literally 50 metres from the waves. The point of the trip was to celebrate a friend’s 60th birthday. A momentous occasion embraced with enthusiasm by…
I’ve been shooting a lot of black and white images lately, using techniques ranging from infrared conversion to black and white with Silver Efex. For this who don’t already know Silver Efex is the black and white conversion plugin that comes as part of the Nik Collection. Black and White with Silver Efex I wanted…
Image Sharpening is a topic about which I’ve seen more disinformation than almost any other processing topic on the internet. Image Sharpening with DxO software is fairly straightforward but there are a lot of choices in the tooling which leads to a certain amount of confusion in users new to the software. In this post…
DxO Labs celebrates its 20th anniversary! Everyonegets 20% off for the next 20 days DxOLabs invites photographers to celebrate its 20th anniversary by offering 20% off allof its products for the next 20 days. From June 18th to July 7th 2024, all software purchased from the DxO website will be sold at a 20% discount….
I’ve been meaning to write this article for years now, but never got around to it as the weather here in Spain keeps me outdoors, shooting! The unholy trinity of Aperture ISO and Shutter speed. Three settings that are inextricably linked together and absolutely determine how your photograph will turn out. An overview of this…
Along with ISO and Shutter Speed, Aperture is one of the critical triumvirate of settings that photographers in any genre need to master. Understanding Aperture in Landscape photography is perhaps the hardest task as the effect of aperture on different lenses is so poorly documented. For landscape photographers, amongst others, controlling the depth of field…