If you can imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out across the sea at a sunset (something that pleases most photographers), your eyes allow you to see a nice balance between the light and colour in the sky and also what’s directly in front of you. A …
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Banding is one of those things no one wants in their photos, it’s really ugly, and quite often frustrating to get rid of. However, like most things, understanding the problem helps you fix it. What causes “banding” and what does it look like? Banding is caused by a …
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If there’s one thing Caithness isn’t short of, it’s harbours. The first herring boom occurred in Caithness around 1790, but the peak of Herring fishing in Caithness happened in 1907 when 250,000 tons of Herring were landed, cured and exported all over Europe and Russia. This fishing legacy has left Caithness with an abundance of …
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Lightroom has some fantastic tools to help you create great black & white conversions, and while there are a number of ways within Lightroom to convert an image to black & white, I’ll show you the way that works best for me. What makes a good black & …
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Curating your own photography is a difficult thing. You take your entire collection of “keepers”, potentially thousands of images, and condense it down into a very small collection of around 15 that say the most about you, and more importantly, about you as a photographer. In my opinion …
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