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Books on Portraiture (2020 update)

Books on Portraiture (2020 update)

Eight books just for the portrait game. Like the earlier survey of books for basic photography, this survey lists my recommendations for each topic within the realm of portraiture.

Kelly Cook September 10, 2020 January 6, 2021 Looking good: ideas for composition, lighting, and processing  books on photography / focus on people / lighting people
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Courthouse Butte, Sedona, Arizona

Courthouse Butte, Sedona, Arizona

Trying various editors with old photos, getting more comfortable with Darktable, at least for landscapes.

Kelly Cook September 4, 2020 September 6, 2020 Photo editing  Darktable / image processing / Olympus E-M5 / Program mode / Sedona AZ
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Tone Mapping the easy way

Tone Mapping the easy way

Tone mapping is often known as “that HDR look”. This essay is a look at examples with 3 current editors, Affinity, Darktable, and Luminar. There is also a peek at the user interfaces (desktops).

Kelly Cook July 8, 2020 August 12, 2020 Photo editing  Affinity / Darktable / image processing / Luminar / styles / tone mapping
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Darktable trial for a retro look or style

Darktable trial for a retro look or style

Lately I have been trying to learn some “new” RAW editors, including Darktable.  This exercise was an attempt to give a crowd shot (happens to be Scottsdale, AZ) the faded …

Kelly Cook April 19, 2020 April 20, 2020 Photo editing  Darktable / event photography / focus on people / image processing / Olympus E-M5 / Program mode / street photography / styles
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Watson Lake

Watson Lake

Finally got around to uploading one of my shots of Watson Lake

Kelly Cook March 15, 2020 March 16, 2020 landscapes  ACDsee / Landscape topics / nature / Olympus E-M5
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Street photography: Rough guide

Just a quick collection of info on getting into the Street Photography zone, hereafter known as “SP”.  Each entry is a clickable link to a post on this blog or …

Kelly Cook July 10, 2019 November 14, 2020 Street photography  focus on people / street photography
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Black and White Presets for various RAW developers

Black and White Presets for various RAW developers

Like the Black-and-White style, but don’t want to put a lot of time into mastering B&W conversion? All photo editors provide a B&W conversion for color images. And most also …

Kelly Cook March 18, 2019 July 9, 2019 Photo editing  ACDsee / Adobe Lightroom / Affinity / image processing / Luminar / Rawtherapee / street photography / styles
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Micro Four Thirds and background blur

Micro Four Thirds and background blur

The APS-C sensor size has some advantage over Micro Four Thirds for background blur.  But that does not mean M4/3 is incapable of blur!  For this trial I will use …

Kelly Cook January 12, 2019 January 12, 2019 Camera basics / Camera studies  background blur / lens choices
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