The Andalucia Acequias Relief! Here in Andalucia we’ve had the wettest spring in memory and the water restrictions have been lifted. What this means in practice is we can refill our swimming pool, use more than 200L each per day and relax in the knowledge that our tap water will not be restricted this year….
Of all the essential photography skills you should learn, composition is probably the most important, swiftly followed by narrative. In this article I’m going to try to convey how this works in real life and why it is not to be confused with narrative. Composition and Narrative When you first pick up a camera, having…
DxO PhotoLab 7 and the Nik Collection Creating depth in landscape photography is a challenge that can be resolved in a few different ways, ranging from point of sharp focus, through leading lines to foreground interest. These solutions happen in camera, but what can we do in processing to increase the perception of depth in…
Getting the best out of HDR Photography involves knowing how to set up bracketing in your camera and how to use an HDR processor such as Nik HDR Efex or the Merge tool in Adobe Lightroom to blend the photographs together. What is HDR? HDR the technique stands for High Dynamic Range and the technique…
Color Efex and Viveza I’ve been looking closely at Color Efex and Viveza, two plugins from the Nik Collection recently. I’ve dabbled with Color Efex in the past, but in terms of a coherent Color Workflow with Nik Collection plugins, well I didn’t really have one. Until now. Video I have a playlist on YouTube…
In landscape photography, the issue of focus and the related issue of depth of field lead inexorably towards trying to get to grips with hyperfocal distance. In this article I am simplifying hyperfocal distance so that the principle can be easily used by landscape photographers to get sharp focus front to back. It’s not what…
Beginner, Intermediate and Pro – what do these terms even mean? Photography for beginners is the same as it is for Pro’s. Fundamentally both are using a set of near identical tools to create an image. Misleading Hierarchies Beginner, Intermediate, Pro are the common categories used to create a hierarchy of educational materials in almost…
