In the North of England, within the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, lies the rural costal market town and civil parish of Kendal. In antiquity known as Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal. As small and remote as it is, it is from this rural Kendal setting that Jamie...
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From "the truth is stranger than fiction Leica saga," an unbelievable problem surfaces with the new Leica Monochrom Type 246 - this time even before it begins to ship. Today Leica Camera has issued a notice regarding a compatibility issue with DNG files from new...
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In this episode of "The Complete Picture," Julieanne Kost demonstrates enhancing light in Adobe Lightroom’s Develop module to enhance your photographs using color and tonality to change the mood and atmosphere of an image. We all know that the goal is to capture the best photograph in...
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The first opening of the box, and firing up for the first video recording from the new Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II. As you would expect, not perfect without reading the manual, but intuitive and quite acceptable all the same. A testament to Olympus designing...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="636"] Watch a woman turn into a flawless magazine model with Photoshop - From Jezebel.com[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="636"] Watch a woman turn into a flawless magazine model with Photoshop - From Jezebel.com[/caption] Like most men, I'm almost certain It’s never OK for a woman...
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With the release of OS X Yosemite later this year, Apple will cease the development of its professional photo editing application, Aperture. Bummer. Users of Aperture will be transitioned to Photos, a new app that was introduced during the Apple WWDC keynote recently. The new Photos application integrates many...
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It looks like Brian Griffith has updated my favorite RAW converter, Iridient Developer, to work almost seamlessly now with Lightroom. This is fantastic news! Dublin fine art photographer and Lightroom presets developer Thomas Fitzgerald has done a very informative video above that walks you through how to...
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Creating a "Talking Senior Portrait" with Stills and Video from Sekonic on Vimeo. To a school portrait photographer, the very idea of video has to be a scary proposition. But there is a middle ground. What I call hybrid storytelling Joe Brady calls a "Talking Senior Portrait." What's the...
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Modern photography is incredibly complex. We like to pretend that our mastery of cameras and digital technology has made photography easier or better, but in reality it has never been harder to simply create photographs. Above all else, cameras and digital technology give us choices, and more choice...
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From Photography Life: Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration, also known as “LoCA” or “bokeh fringing”, occurs when different wavelengths of color do not converge at the same point after passing through a lens, as illustrated below: Lenses with Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration problems can show fringing around objects...
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