Books on Portraiture (2021 update)
14 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.
Tag: image processing
Courthouse Butte, Sedona, Arizona
Trying various editors with old photos, getting more comfortable with Darktable, at least for landscapes.
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).
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 …
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 …
Shadow lifting with Fujifilm and Olympus RAW files
There have been some issues for working with Fujifilm RAW files (*.RAF) with some RAW developers/editors. This photo essay will try to look into how different developers work with a RAF file, plus whether the differences in shadow quality are significant.
Styles and street photography – using ACDSee
Playing with post processing styles and filters. As applied to street photography.
Shadow Recovery With Editors
Photo editors offer several different approaches to brightening up areas in deep shade. Examples are shown here from Lightroom, the Topaz Adjust plugin for Lightroom, and ACDSee Photo Editor 6.