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With Lightroom 5 is Photoshop Really Necessary? by Sean Bagshaw

by Sean Bagshaw | Apr 14, 2014 | Camera Raw, Image Processing, Lightroom, Photography Software, Video Tutorial | 20 comments

The answer to this question, as with so many questions, is it depends. Adobe’s release of Lightroom 1 was way back in 2007, but by that time I had already been immersed in Photoshop for seven or eight years. The purpose of Lightroom was to create an application...

How To Successfully Photograph Northern Lights by Kevin McNeal

by Photo Cascadia | Mar 3, 2014 | High Dynamic Range, Image Processing, Locations, Night Photography, Photo Travel, Photography Techniques, Winter Photography | 17 comments

One of my dreams has always been to photograph the Northern lights under a fresh blanket of white snow. A few years ago I got a chance to photograph the northern lights in the Canadian Rockies. I happened to be on a workshop at Abraham Lake shooting winter landscapes...

Hard Proofing for Optimal Fine Art Prints

by Sean Bagshaw | Jan 20, 2014 | Image Processing, Photography Techniques, Printing, Video Tutorial | 9 comments

Sometimes I find that producing a print that looks as good hanging on the wall as I want it to can be a challenge. In many cases, as long as I have carefully developed my images on a calibrated monitor, ordering a print through a print lab or printing on my own photo...

The Photoshop Creative Cloud Conundrum: Stick To Your Guns or Bite The Bullet? by Sean Bagshaw

by Sean Bagshaw | Nov 20, 2013 | Gear Review, Image Processing, Photography Business, Photography Software | 51 comments

If I’m going to spend time writing an article I would much rather be writing about a creative image developing technique or sharing stories and images from a recent photo trip than debating the merits of a software company’s business choices. However, in...

Protecting and Tracking Your Images Online

by Adrian Klein | Nov 3, 2013 | Image Processing, Noise Removal, Philosophy, Photography Business, Photography Software, Photography Techniques | 7 comments

By Adrian Klein I touched on this topic in early 2012 on this blog with the post New Photography Copyright Laws – Where Do You Stand when SOPA and PIPA were the buzz acronyms making their way through the online world. Although that buzz died down the subject of image...

Shooting Wildflowers In Summer Season – Kevin McNeal

by Photo Cascadia | Oct 18, 2013 | Camera Raw, Color, Image Processing, Photo Travel, Photography Techniques | 3 comments

One of the most challenging aspects of nature photography is shooting the subject of wildflowers successfully. There are many aspects to learn and nothing is more rewarding when the outcome is positive. I have made many mistakes over the past few years shooting...

Creating Time Lapse Video in Lightroom

by Zack Schnepf | Oct 4, 2013 | Image Processing, Lightroom, Photography Software, Video Tutorial | 3 comments

by Zack Schnepf Time lapse video is a lot of fun, and Lightroom makes it easy to get started creating your own videos. I won’t cover the capture side of things, but there are lots of good videos on how to use intervalometers and programmable remotes. This...

Use Lightroom or Camera Raw to Create Natural 32 bit HDR Images by Sean Bagshaw

by Sean Bagshaw | Aug 30, 2013 | Camera Raw, High Dynamic Range, Image Processing, Photography Techniques, Video Tutorial | 9 comments

In this video tutorial I share a technique for quickly and easily creating natural looking 32 bit extended dynamic range images using Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. To be able to perform this technique you will need Lightroom version 4.1 or newer and...

Overlay Dodge and Soft Light Burn Technique by Sean Bagshaw

by Sean Bagshaw | Jun 8, 2013 | Image Processing, Photography Techniques, Video Tutorial | 14 comments

Dodging and burning to creatively lighten and darken areas within a photo is a technique essentially as old as photography itself. In the digital darkroom we now have many ways in which we can make dodging and burning types of adjustments. Many years ago I learned the...

SHARPENING FOR PRINT

by Photo Cascadia | May 30, 2013 | Image Processing, Video Tutorial | 3 comments

by Zack Schnepf The number one question I got after I produced my tonality control video is this. How do you sharpen, and when? The simple answer is, I don’t sharpen until I’m going to present the image in one medium or another. That means I don’t sharpen at...