Fine-art photography for home and office
I’m in the process of revamping my site and these are old posts. Some have outdated info so beware. Updates coming soon, and I’ll be archiving and correcting old information. I’ll tweak these posts over time, just like I do with photographs – with one main difference: I’m not likely to post unfinished images, but … Read more
Prior to Lightroom’s 11.x major upgrade in late 2021, my biggest reason for using Adobe Lightroom as my post-processing app was Jordy Meow’s set of Lightroom/WordPress plugins. They make it stupidly easy to create gallery collections in Lightroom and sync them automatically with WordPress. Not that I didn’t think Lightroom was a great cataloging and … Read more
Several of the new features in the latest (2021) Lightroom Desktop 5 upgrade are important enough to deserve the title game changer. I’ll be discussing two of them in this post. Luminance masking and its close cousin, color masking, have heretofore been a somewhat advanced editing tool employed in Photoshop. People accomplished this ‘by hand,’ … Read more
I built this after some study to use best components I could find. After somewhat lengthy research and trial and error, I’ve arrived at two primary WordPress building-blocks: the theme, GeneratePress, (and associated block plugin) and Jordy Meow’s suite of photography plugins. For most any photography site, a decent gallery scheme is going to be … Read more
If you’re building a photography website on WordPress, three plugins by Jordy Meow comprise the holy trinity (Meow Mix?) of WordPress photography plugins https://meowapps.com/ The first plugin is actually a pair of plugins that allow you to sync images from Lightroom collections with your WordPress site. The second lets you easily create gallery pages. The third … Read more
Take a look at the left and right halves of the image below. Hover with your cursor and click. These come from the same Canon RAW image. The left half is unprocessed, the right has only been upscaled using Adobe’s Super Resolution. The difference is clear. Tony Northrup’s YouTube video on Super Resolution was sent to … Read more
Pack more megapixels into your photos with one click. Use this feature in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to create ultra-high-resolution images.
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Kiane, a lovely Minneapolis-based model. One of my favorite shots of her was spoiled because I missed the focus. (Note to self: avoid using manual focus lenses in situations that are risky.) Enter Sharpen AI, a software product created by Topaz Labs. Their claim was sharpening … Read more
You may have seen this illusion. Look at it close-up, and it is Albert Einstein. Back away a few feet and it is Marilyn Monroe. What is going on here? You’re seeing the effects of frequency resolution. Close-up, you’re seeing the finer detail that is familiar to you as details of Einstein’s face. When you … Read more