By Steve Mallett | How-To
Yesterday I had a cataract op to my right eye and here I am, wearing sunglasses, writing about it already. Miraculous really. To backtrack, twelve months or so ago I went for a routine eye test and complained to my optician about my “rubbish glasses”. This has always been my stance since first having to wear […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
The usual sliders in Lightroom don’t give you enough control over colour to define a consistent style or get the most impact out of your files. Here are two alternative techniques. 6 months from now, I’ll probably turn back to this post and see only all that I didn’t understand about colour grading 😉 […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
My last post was about flora; so, in order to treat the animal world on equal terms, I thought it would be appropriate to put a few members of the honorable fauna in display. This is going to be quite a counterclimax for me since, as readers of previous posts know, seldom if ever do […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
How we react to one, to the other, and how to blend the two for even more powerful images. A lot has been written about the respective merits of b&w and colour photography, about the importance of colour science, about intellect vs emotion. To me, all of this is either too scientific (and hard […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
“Look who’s talking”, you’ll say. But please let me make my case, it’s worth it 😉 Digital photography has freed us of so many constraints and increased our shooting envelope so much that hundreds of brilliant young photographers have embraced it and created work that simply wouldn’t have been feasible before. And even in the […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
You might be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a blog about cooking but it does contain a list of ingredients and instructions. Surgeon General’s Warning : Contains a high dose of technical ingredients and artistic post processing. For the technophobes feel free to skip the blurb and jump to the pretty pictures […]
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By Lad Sessions | How-To
Pascal’s recent thoughts on 3D (#1181 on 3D and pop) are a tough act to follow! As announced, here is a second instalment with a slight change of subject—or at least of approach. In this post I’ll write in my own allegedly “academic” way, seeking to separate out and analyze a few factors, and hope […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
This is part one of a 2 post short series on identifying the factors that enhance or decrease the sense of depth in your images, and putting them to work in practice in your own photography. The photograph above combines a number of the factors leading to the illusion of depth in a flat […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Italy offers a wide range of sleeping accommodation, from charming locandas, to classy hotels and luxurious palazzos. So why would anyone in their right mind choose a white tin box instead? I’ll try to answer this from multiple points of view. Independence Maybe I’m just an old fart. But eating at a restaurant once […]
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By Lad Sessions | How-To
Roots. The word has so many fundamental connotations: ground, foundation, basis, cause, origin, source. Roots are plants’ way of being grounded in space, at a place, but all life is rooted in time, through its ancestors. So roots run deep, and they touch us deeply. Every living thing has roots, its temporal roots. All […]
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