The Dehaze tool in Lightroom is pretty amazing. Of course, like most powerful photo editing tools, it can produce some awful effects when used inappropriately or with too much enthusiasm. But yesterday I found a new use for it: taming specular reflections. I started with this image: Note the bluish reflection on the cucumber that’s pointed at… [Read More]
8-bit filters in Photoshop CC
Last night I was working on an image that had a lot of small imperfections in flat areas that had been emphasized by Helicon stacking. In Photoshop CC, I created a duplicate layer, and applied the dust and scratches filter. Oops. Contouring. I scratched my head and tried a median filter. Same damn thing. Thinking… [Read More]
Screen captures with a7RIII pixel shift
This is the 52nd in a series of posts on the Sony a7RIII You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]
D850 exposure strategy — manual settings
This is the 72nd in a series of posts on the Nikon D850. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]
Quantifying Sony IE pixel-shift oversharpening
This is the 51st in a series of posts on the Sony a7RIII You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series;… [Read More]