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.
Let’s have a little look at some of the perhaps lesser-known secret tools in the new Luminar Neo, such as Color Harmony. Luminar Neo’s Color Harmony tool offers advanced options for color grading or control, with various sliders for specific looks. It’s also a great tool in LuminarAI.
The truth is Photoshop is NOT for everyone. So here are three reasons to stop thinking about Photoshop and find an alternative.
Using the Lasso tool in Photoshop for selections can be a little tricky if you’ve never used it before. But it is actually super simple.
Do you have a workflow when it comes to editing your images? Or do you just jump in and see what happens? Creating a workflow in Lightroom Classic (and other programs) can not only make life easier but, it can also speed up your processing time a lot.
Are you controlling your metadata when exporting images from Lightroom Classic? Not every photo needs all the metadata embedded. You may only want to have certain information available like copyright information. Knowing what to add in or leave out and how to control your metadata can be useful.
The Orton Effect is a photographic technique that blends two different photos of the same scene to achieve a mix of high and low detail areas. It essentially adds a gentle blur and glow to give a dreamlike quality to landscapes and portraits. It was originally conceived by Michael Orton in the 1980s.
When someone lends you a beautiful object to photograph, like this violin, don’t forget to capture the details — all the gorgeous beautiful details.
Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between folders and collections in Lightroom? Many of you have no doubt used folders to store and curate your images, but what do you do with Collections?
I recently ran an all ladies invitational Fine Art studio session with model Alice Unleashed. The theme was A Musical Interlude.
Do you ever get a location and the object of your obsession is badly lit? Blown out highlights and crushed black shadows? Sure, you can wing it and hope for the best. But a bit of planning can go a long way to making a great shot.
I’m often asked why I shoot in Aperture Priority over, say, Manual mode. The answer is it’s often so much quicker and I can still make changes on the fly.
RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks or redundant array of inexpensive devices and is a way to provide storage across multiple drives that act as a single volume (or drive). Depending on which level or type of RAID you choose, data can be duplicated or mirrored, offering data redundancy and protection. Perhaps you’ve heard of RAID systems? But just not sure what they are, or why they can be a benefit? So what is RAID?
Do you have any photographic goals for 2022? Goals are an admirable and desirable thing to do, but it needs to be backed up, it needs to be achievable.
I was really looking forward to was tethering my Sony to Capture One 22. It seemed relatively straightforward until...well it wasn't.
Often this is one of the most daunting decisions on importing, is how should your photos be organised in Lightroom Classic. Straight out of the gate, Lightroom's cataloguing features get many people a little confused and frustrated. But it needn't be that way. The main thing is to find a structure that suits you.
I was recently asked how I go about setting up a still life shoot in the studio. I have written quite a few articles on various aspects of still life, but I guess maybe not HOW I set things up.
In a recent editorial, I was discussing whether still images, as opposed to video, are still relevant. A tangent discussion was started on where do you draw the line between photographer and content creator? And it is something I have been giving further thought to. So what is the difference? And where do I currently fit in?
Have you ever noticed when importing images into Lightroom Classic and "Copy as DNG" is listed as an option? It's possible you completely skipped this as A/ You had no idea what it meant or B/ you just totally missed it. So, should you convert Raw files to DNG?, I believe yes and you might consider doing so, after reading this post.
I was recently been asked the question, where to place books in still life photography? So here are a few tips
During a holiday Netflix movie binge, I was watching Jurassic Park (1,2 & 3). I was struck by a line Dr Grant said to one of the kids. That there are two types of boys, the astronomer and the astronaut. This got me thinking it could also apply to photographers. So which are you, Are you an astronomer or an astronaut?
