Modern digital SLR cameras come equipped with a pretty accurate ‘auto’ white balance function but it isn’t always perfect. It may perform brilliantly in external light but move in doors with a range of different light sources and things get a little less accurate. Welcome the Grey Card. The combination of shooting RAW combined with the use of an 18% Grey card offers … [Read more...]
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Designing Emulation Presets for Lightroom (Download)
Hello, allow me to introduce myself briefly. I am Michael from LifeInDigitalFilm and X-Equals. I am a hybrid photographer; shooting both digital and film, and I combine both into the same Lightroom workflow. My experience with film leads me to excel at emulating the look of film in Lightroom, creating presets designed for a RAW, digital workflow. When we at X-equals release … [Read more...]
A Complete Guide to Backing up Photos in Lightroom
The hard truth is that our good old hard drives are nothing more than a stack of platters spinning very fast, with a magnetic head hovering over them to read and write data. You are probably using it all the time, day in, day out. And like all mechanical devices, one day a component will wear out, come loose or respond erratically, causing a crash - no explosion or fire but … [Read more...]
Introducing Presets in Lightroom 2
This summer I embarked on a photographic adventure exploring the power of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Previously my photography workflow involved a brief encounter with Apple Aperture and then back to the comfort and simplicity of iPhoto with Photoshop as an external editor. Adobe Lightroom has transformed my opinion on photography post production completely and not to … [Read more...]
How To : Create a Lightroom Preset
I previously covered the large number of Lightroom presets that are readily available to transform your photos at the click of a mouse. Eventually though you might want to venture to producing your own creative presets. In a recent series I found myself processing a batch of photos adjusting the exposure, recovery etc to the same level for each photo. Lightroom offers the … [Read more...]