It looks like it may finally be the end of iTunes for me – that shamble of Apple bloatware – the great mangler of files and playlists. Let me start at the beginning with our home system and the music library, read next paragraph to skip to portable music: A few years ago iTunes messed up our home music library for the 3rd time, so we switched to Audirvana (both Mac and Windows) which works well enough and sounds great, […]
Feb. 5 2019 – Its About The Photographer Not The Camera Further to my earlier post in Sept 2018 I have had time to reflect on what equipment I have and the various findings published over the last few month about the Sony, Canon and Nikon mirrorless cameras when compared to similar pro-consumer DSLRs. I believe that camera basically fall into two categories – still photography such as landscape, portrait, studio work and action photography such as sports and wildlife […]
An Orton effect causes the lighter part of the image to glow while keeping the dark parts untouched. There are several approaches, a non-destructive method using Luminosity Masks and Smart Objects and there is also the Fast and Dirty method documented further down this post. As most of my edit is ‘non-destructive’ so using Smart Objects seems to me to be the way to go. Non Destructive Open the file from LR as a Smart Object into PS. In PS right […]
I have customized my default processing settings for Lightroom in order to apply both Enable Profile Corrections and Remove Chromatic Aberration on import. To do this, I selected a raw image, moved to the Develop module, and clicked the Reset button to remove any previous edits made to the file. Then, I checked both the… Source: Customizing the Default Setting for ACR and Lightroom
In Jan 2016, I started testing Canon’s Digital Lens Optimizer (DFO) which unfortunately can only be activated with Canons Digital Photo Professional (DPP) software – Canons simple camera raw processor – Canons much simpler variation of Lightroom. DFO is designed to remove digital colour noise (especially at low aperture numbers such as F2.8) , correct vignetting (darkened corners), prevent diffraction at high aperture numbers (greater than 16) and remove colour noise at high ISOs for modern Canon EOS bodies with […]
I have a mix of standard studio slave flashes and Canon Speedlites (430 EX IIs and 600EX RT) – this allows great flexibility for outdoor and indoor work (studio) however it was challenging to get this equipment to work well together. The problem is that the non Canon equipment would not sync with the Canon Slaves and would flash too soon. There are many solutions to this problem – all of which require buying more equipment (for example I could switch […]
A great plug for Lightroom – displays the Focus points as seen in the viewfinder during post processing. Helps perfect focus issues especially during flash shooting when the light is dim and the correct focus is difficult to see in the dark. So far its free. Source: Show Focus Points Plugin for Lightroom
El Capitan and iOS 9 has become perhaps too helpful in offering ideas to you when you’re trying to address an email. Source: How to disable unconfirmed contact email suggestions | Macworld
A reader would like to have Word’s auto-correct feature work elsewhere when mistyping two uppercase letters in a row. Source: How to fix typing two capitals in a row at a word’s start | Macworld
Learn how to use these features in El Capitan to make your desktop more manageable. Source: Hands-on with Spaces, Mission Control, and Split View in El Capitan | Macworld