This tutorial focuses on the process of sharpening a bird or any other animal, which is essentially similar to sharpening a person or any object. Nevertheless, when working with animals, particularly birds, you may have the intention to enhance their appearance and make them more prominent compared to other subjects. That is the main objective... Continue Reading →
First and foremost, what is EXIF ?EXIF or Exchangeable Image File Format - initial release in 1995Is a standard used for images and sound.Contains data such as camera settings (Aperture, Speed, Iso, Focal Length,…)Image metrics such as Pixels and Size.Date and TimeGeolocation, User, Copyright information.And much more… jExifToolGUI is a graphical tool based on Phil... Continue Reading →
A new modern laptop may be faster, but still has one problem, and that is storage.You rarely have more than 512GB when you buy a budget laptop capable of photography and video editing, then we are talking about laptops in the price range of €750-€1500.If you go for a graphically better and/or faster laptop, and... Continue Reading →
A while ago I published an article about a script that I used to control the RAW files in my workflow -> A Script to solve a Workflow ProblemIn my workflow I splitted the JPGs and RAW files while transferring to my computerThen I sorted my JPGs, and only kept the RAWs of my best JPGs.The... Continue Reading →
No, this is not a joke, nor is it a new version.This article is primarily intended for those who like Darktable's editing features, but want to edit photo's without using a database, library, tagging, actually just with a photo browser. I never was a big fan of Darktable myself, I loved working with Rawtherapee or... Continue Reading →
What is Kodak Aerochrome and what was it used for.The first versions of infrared film date back to the time of the First World War for spectroscopic analysis.In the 1930s it was made commercially available and quickly became very popular among photographers, and it was also used in the news for landscape and aerial photos,... Continue Reading →
I browse a lot to find new Luts, Presets and Recipes.And on one of those sessions I found a video by Andy Astbury, Raw Therapee Basics: Color Management Input Profiles.It's quite a long video, but I was able to pick up some interesting things in it.The video brought me to "How to Get LCP and... Continue Reading →
A tutorial on using textures in Gimp.What do we need :Well, a Texture to start with, and preferably more than one.There will be another tutorial soon about textures and how to make them.What you should know is that the photo you are going to use as a texture, unless it has a completely even structure... Continue Reading →
I have a problem in my photo workflow for quite some time, and finally I created a solution in the form of a script I wrote.Maybe you have a similar problem, and you also work with Linux, then I may have a possible solution below. However, even if you are a Windows user, scripts are... Continue Reading →
What is Open Source Photography for me ?Well, it mainly stands to be Free... Free, in the freedom of choice,Free, from having to pay,Free, in the choice to sponsor,Free, in the choice of Camera, unfortunately this is not completely free :-)Free, in the choice of Operating Systemand Free in the choice of Photo Editing Software... Continue Reading →
My watch for size comparison I did my first experiments with Olympus and bird photography, with an E-M5 Mark II and Panasonic Lumix G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 II POWER O.I.S. At that time I was still a Fujifilm user, and compared this lens next to my Fuji X-H1 and Fujifilm XF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 R LM... Continue Reading →
When you come home after a photo shoot or trip, and you are going to copy your photos and/or videos to your computer, how do you do that ? Many use their regular photo & video editing program to copy photos and/or videos, however, can it structurally organize your pictures and videos by renaming them... Continue Reading →
Content Changes Film Simulation UpdatesMore Film Simulations : PictureFX and FreshLutsExifShot - Exif information on your picturesDarktable Tutorial : Copying the Look and Feel from a Picture and Create a LUT or 3DLut – Part IIMy Camera Gear - Perfectioning and UpgradingEvent : Bushcraft Weekend from 1 to 3 October Changes At the beginning of... Continue Reading →
The first part is about the technique of copying the Look and Feel from one picture to another in Darktable - In the second part, whe are going to create a Lut (PNG and 3DCube) from that Look and Feel. How often do you see great pictures on the internet and wish your own pictures... Continue Reading →
Hey, A "normal unboxing" is a video in which someone receives a package and unpacks it. The unpacker provides a video and the steps he takes with comments and thus gives his very first impression.Well, I don't have a package here, but I do have some new software that I found on the internet -... Continue Reading →
In my previous post "How To Preview all your Luts ?" we talked about a program that could produce a preview of your Luts.Bulk Lut's Previewer is a real asset for those who have a lot of Luts on their computer, but there was one problem, you couldn't preview Haldclut's or PNG files.Today we have... Continue Reading →
Do you like Film Simulations ?Do you use Lut's for this ?Then you should definitely read on ! If, like me, you have a lot of Lut's on your computer, it can be difficult to find out which Lut fits best with a picture,especially if you have to load them one by one in your... Continue Reading →
Very popular with many photographers were and still are the well-known effects from Nik Collection (now Dxo) with names of precious metals like platinum efex and palladium efex, first applied to Black and White and later also in Color photography. These effects were the reason that I started creating Haldcluts myself to have my own... Continue Reading →
Probably the most important part in RAW development : the "Tone Curve". Technically, this new PictureFX Tone Curve is not a Film Simulation, however, it has been developed for en is part of the PictureFX Pro Fujifilm Color series.This specific Curve has been further fine-tuned since then, and is now intended as a starting point... Continue Reading →
Over time I learned that the best and fastest way to make film simulations without getting frustrated is to start simple.A method that works very well is the comparative method - two instances of Rawtherapee open on top of each other.It is also very important to know some adjustment and setting methods in Rawtherapee, it... Continue Reading →
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