HDR Imaging has become quite popular. For some, it represents a novelty; for others, creative process; and to me, "a sensor with a huge range". The images you see on many HDR fora on various photo sharing sites mostly depict choked highlights and watered down shadows, most of the image information falling into the mid-range. I do not quite … [Read more...]
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Single File HDR, really?
Well, not exactly but perhaps a mini HDR; but a very useful one at that. There are numerous articles, Web tutorials, books written about the high dynamic range image processing and for a good reason. The process yields remarkable results with detailed highlights and detailed shadows. Images obtained from HDR processing encompass a range of … [Read more...]
Preserving Mood in Photographs
One of the neglected, and often violated element in photography is the mood. Sitting in your living room on a bright sunny day look around and notice how dark the interior looks compared to the bright outside. Our visual system, being extremely adaptable to brightness, allows us to enjoy the bright view from the window and still see some detail … [Read more...]
Adobe Lightroom 6 Is Out
The long-awaited update to Lightroom 6 is finally here. Software updates create anticipation and excitement fueled by the new features added to the new release, and Lightroom has had its share of anticipation. There has been a lot of hype and fanfare and a day-long webcast tirelessly done by Kelby Media Group. I have (don't ask why) Adobe Creative … [Read more...]
Wishes For 2015
Wishes are easy to make, sometimes too easy. Yet, we all wish for things and hope that they will come true. In that vein, I have the following list of things I wish in several different categories. There is a bit of humor in the items depending on your view. Consider them as food for thought, maybe adopt some. When you read some of the things I … [Read more...]
National Geographic Says …
I have been writing about the excessive editing of digital images and how unnecessary these edits are. I even challenged the PSA and other photographic organizations to discourage these ill-conceived practices. Along these lines, I wrote a comment on a post on Lightroom Killer Tips which I think is maintained by Matt Kloskowski, one of the gurus … [Read more...]
Lightroom 4 Clarity Slider
I have been using Lightroom 4 for a while now and have already written extensively on the printing related issues. In this post I will bring to your attention a different kind of problem which is tied to the Clarity slider which is supposed to add "clarity" by making the features of the photograph crisper. In the most recent issue of Photoshop user … [Read more...]
Photoshop CS6 Quick Review
Adobe announced the public beta release of the next Photoshop, anyone can download and use the new release until it expires after the release of the actual product. Superstition, as it is codenamed, has, as usual, many new features; some just fine, others are very useful, almost "must have" features that may make the upgrade very compelling. … [Read more...]
What exactly is H-D-R?
Photograph: Gustave Le Gray - The Great Wave, Sète (1857). Click to view larger. There are possibly millions of photographs floating on the Internet with the indication that they represent HDR photography. Many, if not most of such photographs manifest the tell-tale signs of "HDR Photography" with choked light in the highlights and the shadows … [Read more...]
On Photography
Photography has gone through various stages since William Talbot and Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre almost simultaneously announced their discovery around 1839. The technical limitations of the time required long exposures, limited exposure range of the plates, bulky cameras, and other necessary equipment created static sensibilities. As time went on … [Read more...]