When photographers set the time in their cameras there’s a step they often miss. This topic keeps coming up again and again when helping folks on workshops, so I figured it would be worth spelling it out here. Before you update the camera’s time, take a photo of an accurate and precise …
I’ve already written about possible altitude health issues on my Snow Leopards photography expedition, but it’s not just me I have to worry about. Computers can also get altitude sickness! The thinner air means that heatsinks aren’t quite as effective, so care needs to be taken to not overheat the machine. …
Not surprisingly, I still get folks asking me about the choice to use (or not use) DNG files. I last wrote an article about this way back in 2011, but my own use of DNGs has changed a little over the past 5 years so I figured it was about time for an …
When taking infrared photos sometimes the images that come from the camera are monochrome, sometimes they have weird colours. Usually this is affected by the combination of filter type and the camera sensor, although you can always make a monochrome image from a colour original. However the colour images do not show …
I’ve written from time to time about GPS devices and ways of geocoding photos. Now I’m going to talk about a software tool to help in managing the GPS data files (usually recorded as GPX files). Adze Adze is software for the Mac, available in Lite (free) and paid versions. …
Keyboard shortcuts As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I tend to use keyboard shortcuts a lot in Lightroom. If I want to crop an image I will press ‘r‘, and later either press ‘r‘ again to go to the plain Develop module, or ‘e‘ to hop back to the Library’s …
Processing your photos typically involves lots of steps. You need to decide which images to use, how to develop them (including cropping), and which ones to delete.
