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: styles
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 …
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 …
Styles and street photography – using ACDSee
Playing with post processing styles and filters. As applied to street photography.
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.