One of the unique attributes of the FujiFilm X-Series is the way the color pixels are laid out on the sensor. Most color digital sensors have a pattern of red, green and blue pixels. Without going into great scientific detail, there are more green pixels than red or blue, but…
How often in today’s world do we get lazy and let something else make our decisions for us? The Auto Gremlin is culprit. The car will keep the temperature at an automatic level we set. The RSS feeds keep us from having to visit each web site and look to see…
After a few weeks shooting daily with the Monochrom, I have begun to remember some of the film training I have not used in a number of years. I spent a cloudy morning on the greenway looking for suitable lighting, contrast and subjects. This is some of what I found…
First, this is not a review of the Leica Monochrom – there are many high quality reviews already completed. This is the beginning of a new series that is considerably more important than a review of a new camera. The Monochrom is a photographer’s tool unlike any other tool in…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. On my recent trip to the west coast, I read a book I found in Barnes & Noble. The title caught my eye, but the content as I flipped it made me purchase…
This is part of my Scanning Images Workflow and the settings used on my negative to digital image scanner. Film Grain and GEM Film grain is similar to noise present in a digital image from a CCD. Film grain isn’t as noticeable in slower speed films and small print sizes….
I specialize in black and white photography and the corresponding workflow in Adobe Lightroom and other products. However, color digital photography may eventually takeover film, so I have created a set of Lightroom Development Presets that emulate existing popular black and white filters. You can download the presets in this…
This is part of my Web Workflow using Adobe Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom is such an efficient tool, I developed a method for managing the web sites I create so that updates are available with minimum fuss and little manual work. The hard part is creating the first page or gallery….
I keep running across posts where someone wants to crop an image in Adobe Lightroom to a certain pixel size but doesn’t know how to do it or believes it cannot be done within Lightroom. It can be done and you can crop an image to a certain pixel size….
Lightroom’s programming language for web galleries has it’s limitations and one we have found is with the autoplay function in the monoslideshow. The Turning Gate has a spectacular template for monoslideshow. Here’s the problem and the workaround. If a monoslide show is playing in the preview window of Lightroom, then…