This is one of the best tutorials I’ve seen on how to fix digital image halos and fringing using Photoshop. It is simple fast and it works!
Images from the Mundane
While relaxing outside on a deck in the sunshine yesterday, I began looking around at the sunlight and shadows a few feet from where I was sitting and began noticing some textures and patterns that I felt might make make for some interesting photos out of an otherwise mundane scene. That is what I love about photography. There is often something right before you worth shooting if you look for it.
What is Fine Art Photography? | Martin Osner
An intricate, nuanced, and insightful video by Matin Osner in response to a recurring and often burning question to which many struggle to answer in the world of art and photography.
REAL difference clarity, Texture + Dehaze in lightroom + ACR
Explained by Colin Smith with photoshopCAFE
This video does a great job of demonstrating how Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze work in Lightroom/RAW and how to use them together to enhance one image using masks.
Photography Resolutions for 2024 | Justin Mott
Justin Mott offers some good new year photography resolutions of his own that photographers of all levels might want to follow.
Personally, he reinforces one trend I began this year of shooting more with my “Nifty Fifty”. In the past, I only used it it when it was the optimal lens choice and focal length for a given situation. On my city walkarounds, I preferred to use my various zoom lenses mixed with my phone camera photo grabs for many of my “street” shots. This arrangement and process began to feel cumbersome as I began wanting to travel light on those walkarounds. The efficiency of the phone camera grabs was good for immediate editing and getting images “out there” on Social Media, etc., but afterwards I found, in spite of having one of the best phone cameras available, some shots simply did not measure up to the images of the same subject/time/place I captured for comparison with my full frame Nikon DLSR. It also meant having pictures in multiple locations, furthering the complexity of image file management down the road.
Remembering Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023) | Magnum Photos
There is little I can say about the immense body of creative work Elliott Erwitt left behind and the profound influence he had on the world of photography that hasn’t been said. His greatness simply goes beyond words for me at this time of his passing. He was without equal and will be missed.
https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/remembering-elliott-erwitt-1928-2023/
Lightroom Tone Curve Explained – Julia Trotti
This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials I’ve found that explains and demonstrates the power and nuance that the often overlooked and/or underused by many Tone Curve panel in Lightroom offers when editing images.
Photoshop Cafe – Will this change Photoshop forever?
As Photoshop evolves with changes almost exponentially this year with a dizzying series of additional features to comprehend and master, this video from Photoshop Cafe does a very nice job of putting the latest change (with filters on this one) in a user friendly useful way that most will find very helpful.
As with most application software updates, they tend to build on and/or modify elements that heavy/moderate users are already familiar with here and this “filter” change is no different in that regard. I expect to make good use of these changes going forward.
Simon d’Entremont – 8 Composition Tips for Photographers
Simon d’Entremont has some fundamental but easy to overlook composition tips when shooting and post editing photographs in this video with some stunning examples.
1980s NYC street photography of Janet Delaney | Framelines
A Twin Lens Reflex camera, especially a Rolleiflex has always felt like the best of camera options when shooting street photography since the photographer does not shoot with the camera at eye level, which tends to draw attention from people in the street. I have used my DLSR’s with a tilt screen at waist level when shooting before to emulate the experience of shooting with a TLR but it simply is not the same as the real thing. It simply does not work as well and seems odd for good reason.
Framelines did a nice job of featuring other photographers, Baldwin Lee, John Simmons, Anya Broido, Oscar Diaz and Jonathan Bertin, in this video as well as the current issue of their wonderful quarterly street photography magazine.