• Home page
  • Blog roll
  • Search
Enthusiast's guide to cameras and photography
Skip to content
  • Home page
  • Blog roll
  • Search
Tag: styles
Home Posts tagged "styles"

Tag: styles

Books on Portraiture (2021 update)

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.

Kelly Cook June 25, 2021 June 25, 2021 Looking good: ideas for composition, lighting, and processing  beginners' topics / books on photography / focus on people / image processing / lens choices / lighting people / styles
Continue reading"Books on Portraiture (2021 update)"
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
Continue reading"Tone Mapping the easy way"
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
Continue reading"Darktable trial for a retro look or style"
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
Continue reading"Black and White Presets for various RAW developers"

Inspiration on Facebook

The question came up about photography pages within the Facebook realm. Here are links to some of those pages, for inspiration. As they are all Facebook, they are accessible only …

staff June 27, 2017 January 1, 2018 Uncategorized  styles / vision and art / visual arts
Continue reading"Inspiration on Facebook"

Styles and street photography – using ACDSee

Playing with post processing styles and filters. As applied to street photography.

staff April 25, 2017 April 25, 2017 Looking good: ideas for composition, lighting, and processing  ACDsee / image processing / street photography / styles
Continue reading"Styles and street photography – using ACDSee"

A brief survey of composition books

After learning a few basic camera controls, a useful followup is to study composition.  This is a look at four popular books on composition, lighting, and style.

staff June 28, 2016 August 4, 2018 Looking good: ideas for composition, lighting, and processing  books on photography / composition by lighting / styles / vision and art
Continue reading"A brief survey of composition books"

Categories

  • Blog roll (9)
  • Camera basics (4)
  • Camera studies (11)
  • In and around Phoenix, Arizona (6)
  • landscapes (1)
  • Lighting gear (1)
  • Looking good: ideas for composition, lighting, and processing (9)
  • Photo editing (6)
  • Street photography (1)
  • Uncategorized (1)

Search Tags

ACDsee (7) Adobe Lightroom (3) Affinity (2) Auto mode (4) background blur (1) beginners' topics (8) books on photography (3) camera reviews (8) camera scenes (1) Canon 50D (5) Canon 77D (2) composition by lighting (4) continuous lighting (1) Darktable (3) event photography (6) exposure control (4) festivals (3) field of view (1) focal length (2) focus on people (9) follow along (4) Fujifilm X-E2s (2) Fujifilm X-T20 (2) gear news (2) image processing (11) Landscape topics (7) lens choices (7) lighting people (2) low budget gear (2) Luminar (2) nature (5) Olympus E-M5 (9) Program mode (6) Rawtherapee (1) Sedona AZ (3) street photography (9) strobe lighting (2) styles (7) tone mapping (1) vision and art (7) visual arts (4) weddings (1)
©2020
Powered by Septera & WordPress.
Back to Top