Julie Powell is a photographer, writer and educator, offers unique photographic opportunities and inspirational ideas to help YOU become the photographer you wish to be.
Feeling a little caged in after spending the last few weeks in isolation? Now that the weather is a little bit nicer, maybe it’s time to grab your camera and macro lens and go exploring your own backyard (or front yard) a little. We may not be able to go far, but when you look at the world with a macro lens, you don’t have to.
It has never been easier to make eyes pop in portraits using Luminar 4. You can use it as standalone software, or as a plugin or Smart Object filter in Photoshop.
So what can you do in this downtime? None of us like it, none of us want it, but we can put this time to good use.
Fellow Photofocus author Lauri Novak recently wrote a post about asking for critique on images and it kind of got me thinking.
Skylum just released its 4.2 update to Luminar, claiming even more powerful AI tools. Offering refinements to various AI features — including AI Sky Replacement — the company claims to have fixed many of the bugs that caused unexpected errors and crashes. In addition to AI Sky Replacement, there are improvements to portrait editing as well as a new eraser tool.
When a message can brighten your whole day, sometimes it’s easy to forget it’s the little things that matter the most
Most people believe that still life is just flowers and kitchen stuff, but it’s much more than that. It’s true that I photograph a lot of flowers and I have a real penchant for vintage kitchenware, but that is not all there is to still life.
Still life photography is not just about sticking a flower in a vase and taking a photo of it — it requires a little more planning and studying than that. Still life has been around for a very long time, and sometimes we can learn from that.
Throughout the month of March, every Sunday I am going to post a quick video on a quick fix, edit or adjustment in Adobe Photoshop
From quickly locating landmarks, animals and food, I believe the better I make my search, the better results I have. So in this post, let’s have a look at finding different types of faces, and see how quickly and just how well it works.
Should you update your camera’s firmware? This is a good question. The simple answer is yes, but if you’re like me, you are perhaps a bit hesitant in doing so. If your camera is working fine, why bother?
Using Excire Search to locate landmarks is quick and easy to do. I tend to travel a lot and I really like lighthouses, but I frequently forget which lighthouse is in which folder within Lightroom Classic. Excire Search promised to get me organized, and it did.
After recently been given a copy of Excire Search 2 Pro to review, I wrote my first post on downloading and installing it. This process took roughly 36-40 hours, as it completed initialization while I was asleep. I awoke to find a dialog box on the computer telling me the current status.
As photographers and creatives, we tend to work mostly on our own. It’s just the way many of us are wired. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just that sometimes we get caught up in our own little world.
I really like to keep my portraits simple, no over-processing or spending hours on the PC. I try to capture everything in-camera as much as I can. Shooting RAW, I find most images out of the camera are a little flat and they need some processing. But again my aim is always to try and keep it simple. So when I was recently asked to review a copy of DxO PhotoLab 3, I was keen to put it through its paces.
Being more often than not the only person in your outfit means you have to keep track of everything. There are dozens of apps, diaries and digital (or analog) calendars and such. But what about your ideas?
This is really exciting stuff, just found out I was a Top 40 Finalist of the Panasonic People and Portrait Photographer of 2019…
I was recently given a copy of Excire Search 2 Pro to review. Let me start by saying I’m NOT a tech-head, but I’m all for something that can make life easier.
DxO PhotoLab is non-destructive and makes a new DOP file with all corrections and filters, so it is really no different in that regard to Lightroom. So what does it offer? Well to start with — price. If you are just after the basics of PhotoLab, it’s only $129 (You can get Nik and PhotoLab 2 for $149.00). There’s also no Subscription.
