This is one of the corner stones of a great image. In photography we have three immutable laws that we must abide by to get a good exposure. How we weigh the trinity is a blend of artistic decision, what you’re photographing and environmental constraints. It’s a careful balancing act and negotiating with physics to get the best deal [More…]
In ACR the toolbar is always visible throughout the panels, sometimes they will interact with each other or allow you to access sub-panels. I will cover what each tool does and how to use it. I will cover the sub-panels and other features in later articles.
This posting is going to be a multi-part overview of Adobe’s Camera RAW convertor also known as ACR. It’s the engine that powers Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The first part of these tutorials will cover what RAW is and give a general overview of why and when you should use it. Following postings I will break [More…]
That should be the motto of every photographer. No matter how skilled, how aware or even how great you are at lighting there is always something you can learn especially when you make mistakes, and lets be honest if you’re not pushing your skills every time you do a session you’re not making mistakes. Mistakes are [More…]
Welcome to the travails of Colour Management? No other words in photography cause so much fear, mysticism and woe. It’s one of the few areas that has yet to be simplified and is still very much a Dark Art. It’s a confusing quicksand of technology, science and experimentation. This article won’t go over the theory, as that [More…]
When it comes to data and computers there is one rule that should be engraved into your memory, back it up. Hard drives fail; it’s a simple fact of life that people don’t realise that it’s not an if but when a hard drive fails. Hard drives lose data for many reasons such as a corrupt file system, [More…]