Observations and Thoughts on Photography
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I tend to like my photographs to be straight out of camera (SOOC) or if I have to edit them, just trying to achieve a filmic (film camera) look. That’s not to say that I won’t play around with images, just that if I don’t have to all the better. I recently posted some shots […]
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I think it’s nice to post an image you really like – other’s can see and comment plus you get to share it with more people. This image is not SOOC, it has been processed. Firstly it’s from a friends party so there were a lot of bottles and glasses etc spoiling the foreground so […]
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Luminar Neo is the latest offering from Skylum Inc, a US based software company with a large number of it’s develpment team domiciled and working in the Ukraine. Putting aside the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, if this is even possible, over the past four or so years I have had a love – hate relationship […]
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I don’t often do pieces on photography club competitions but things are changing in club photography and as such I think this demands some comment. Competitoins to my mind need to have very narrow paramters in order to ensure a level playing field. Even then the joker in the pack is always going to be […]
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Since it’s launch back at the begining of February Luminar Neo from Skylum Inc. has received a few updates which have improved usability and functionality so I thought that this would be a good time to take another look. Before I do though I just want to remind readers that many of Skylum’s development team […]
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When I first bought into the Skylum world with Luminar2018 I was impressed. At last a really simple, efficient and productive tool for minimal outlay. At that time, other than Photoscape X Pro, it was my main photo editor and I did some really good work with it. Then came along Luminar 3, another really […]
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Although I use On1 routinely for most of my editing, I so far haven’t really mentioned it to any great degreeon this blog, even though most of the images you see here will have been processed using On1. I’m therefore going to take this opportunity to put this right today. This hugely competent editor from […]
