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.
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.
Trying various editors with old photos, getting more comfortable with Darktable, at least for landscapes.
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).
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 …
Finally got around to uploading one of my shots of Watson Lake
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 …
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 …
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 …